{"id":406,"date":"2026-02-10T16:30:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T16:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cyse-didi\/?page_id=406"},"modified":"2026-02-10T17:02:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T17:02:01","slug":"cyse-201s","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cyse-didi\/cyse-201s\/","title":{"rendered":"CYSE 201S"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Cybersecurity and the Social Sciences<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Course description: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cybersecurity is typically conceived as a technical topic. In reality, the topic is multi-<br>disciplinary, and some aspects of the topic are best understood through a social science<br>lens. This course addresses the social, political, legal, criminological, and economic<br>dimensions of cybersecurity through a social science framework. Students are introduced<br>to a human-factors approach to understanding cybersecurity threats. Attention is given to<br>the social factors that contribute to cyber incidents and the political and legal mechanisms<br>that are developed to control the behaviors of those who create risks in cybersecurity<br>incidents. The class also explores how cybersecurity is studied by social scientists in<br>psychology, political science, criminology, economics, sociology, international studies, and<br>other social science disciplines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Course objectives and learning outcomes:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u25cf Compare how basic psychological, sociological, criminological, political, economic,<br>and legal theories and models explain cybersecurity<br>\u25cf Identify the strengths and weaknesses of those theories in understanding the<br>connections between human behaviors and cybersecurity<br>\u25cf Define key concepts including cybersecurity, cybercrime, cyber criminology, cyber<br>law, digital forensics, human factors, cyber policy, cyber risk, cyber threats, and<br>cyber war.<br>\u25cf Identify how professionals in various cybersecurity careers apply these<br>multidisciplinary concepts in their daily routines<br>\u25cf Describe how hypotheses and research questions are formed in studies addressing<br>cybersecurity through a social science lens<br>\u25cf Describe how data are collected, measured, and analyzed in studies addressing<br>cybersecurity through a social science lens<br>\u25cf Identify how marginalized groups have confronted challenges and concerns related<br>to cybersecurity as well as how these groups have contributed to our understanding<br>about the topic.<br>\u25cf Explain how the application of social science theories, principles, and research<br>strategies have contributed to our understanding of cybersecurity at the societal<br>level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Profiling Hackers - The Psychology of Cybercrime | Mark T. Hoffmann | TEDxHHL\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4EyWrC41Oc4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">This is what interests me the most about Cybersecurity: studying criminology and psychology. I have always wondered what makes the human mind tick. What made the human mind want to commit a crime? This video encapsulates my interest and my wonder behind the psychology of cybersecurity. I believe thinking ahead will help prevent and maintain systems. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cybersecurity and the Social Sciences Course description: Cybersecurity is typically conceived as a technical topic. In reality, the topic is multi-disciplinary, and some aspects of the topic are best understood through a social sciencelens. This course addresses the social, political, legal, criminological, and economicdimensions of cybersecurity through a social science framework. Students are introducedto a&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cyse-didi\/cyse-201s\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":30318,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cyse-didi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/406"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cyse-didi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cyse-didi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cyse-didi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30318"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cyse-didi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cyse-didi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":421,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cyse-didi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/406\/revisions\/421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cyse-didi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}