Cybersecurity, Technology, and Society
Explore how technology is related to cybersecurity from an interdisciplinary orientation. Attention is given to the way that technologically-driven cybersecurity issues are connected to cultural, political, legal, ethical, and business domains. The learning outcomes for this course are as follows:
- Describe how cyber technology creates opportunities for criminal behavior,
- Identify how cultural beliefs interact with technology to impact cybersecurity strategies,
- How the components, mechanisms, and functions of cyber systems produce security concerns,
- Impact that cyber technology has on individuals’ experiences with crime and victimization,
- Describe ethical dilemmas that cybersecurity efforts, produce for individuals, nations, societies, and the environment,
- Describe the costs and benefits of producing secure cyber technologies,
- Understand the global nature of cybersecurity and the way that cybersecurity efforts have produced and inhibited global changes,
- Role of cybersecurity in defining definitions of appropriate an inappropriate behavior,
- Describe how cybersecurity produces ideas of progress and modernism.
Course Material
Reflection essay, weekly technology and cybersecurity journal, and several quizzes and exams. Please include some of these artifacts on this page, particularly the reflection essay, explaining what you did and how these projects helped you engage with the outcomes listed above.