This minor provides cybersecurity fundamentals, including programming and ethics, tailored to various student interests and majors.
The Cybersecurity minor is designed to appeal to both less technically oriented and more technically oriented undergraduate students across multiple departments, in multiple colleges. Students who enroll in the minor will acquire a basic understanding of programming and a firmly grounded understanding of cybersecurity, inlcluiding cyber ethics. The inclusion of these courses in the minor will allow students to specialize in the area of cybersecurity that is most closely aligned with their interests and degree plans.
Enrollment/Eligibility Criteria
Students must be enrolled in a degree‑granting major to apply for the cybersecurity minor. General Engineering students are not eligible, as they are not yet enrolled in a degree‑granting major. In addition, students must have completed at least one semester at Texas A&M University and have a minimum GPA of 2.75.
Application Process
Students seeking to declare the minor must complete an application. Application information is available on the
Cybersecurity Minor website.
Select one of the following tracks:
Course List | Code | Title | Semester Credit Hours |
| CSCE 313 | Introduction to Computer Systems | 4 |
| CSCE 410 | Operating Systems | 3 |
| CSCE 465 | Computer and Network Security | 3 |
| 6 |
| Law and Policy in Cybersecurity | |
| Security of Embedded Systems | |
| Data Analytics for Cybersecurity | |
| Quantum Algorithms | |
| Applied Cryptography | |
| Software Reverse Engineering | |
| Computer Networks | |
| Directed Studies 1 | |
| Cybersecurity Risk | |
| Professional Internship 1 | |
| Directed Studies 1 | |
| Research 1 | |
| Fundamentals of Networking | |
| Professional Internship 1 | |
| Directed Studies 1 | |
| Total Semester Credit Hours | 16 |
Course List | Code | Title | Semester Credit Hours |
| CSCE 402 | Law and Policy in Cybersecurity | 3 |
| or ITSV 308 | or Cybersecurity and Digital Ethics | |
| 3-4 |
| Programming I | |
| Introduction to Computer Science Concepts and Programming | |
| Program Design and Concepts | |
| Introduction to Program Design and Concepts | |
| Embedded Systems Development in C | |
| 9-10 |
| Embedded Systems for Medical Applications | |
| Law and Policy in Cybersecurity 2 | |
| Human-Computer Interaction | |
| Computer and Network Security | |
| Cybersecurity Risk | |
| Fundamentals of Networking | |
| Local-and-Metropolitan-Area Networks | |
| Microcontroller Architecture | |
| Advanced Network Systems and Security | |
| Wireless Transmission Systems | |
| Forensic Investigations | |
| Introduction to Forensic and Investigative Sciences | |
| GIS Programming | |
| Network Communications and Infrastructure | |
| Database Programming | |
| Business Systems Analysis and Design | |
| Unix System Administration Practices | |
| Cybersecurity and Digital Ethics 2 | |
| Database Systems Administration and Application | |
| Communications and Cryptography | |
| Communications and Cryptography II | |
| National Security Policy | |
| Total Semester Credit Hours | 16 |
Course List | Code | Title | Semester Credit Hours |
| ITSV 308 | Cybersecurity and Digital Ethics | 3 |
| 13 |
| Law and Policy in Cybersecurity | |
| Cybersecurity Risk | |
| Embedded Systems Development in C | |
| Local-and-Metropolitan-Area Networks | |
| Microcontroller Architecture | |
| Advanced Network Systems and Security | |
| Engineering Technology Capstone I 1 | |
| Engineering Technology Capstone II 1 | |
| Embedded Sensors and Internet of Things (IoT) Systems | |
| Unix System Administration Practices | |
| Database Systems Administration and Application | |
| Information Technology Service Management Capstone 1 | |
| Total Semester Credit Hours | 16 |
Minimum required GPA to declare minor is a 2.5.
Must make a grade of C or better in each course used towards minor.
Must achieve an overall GPA of 2.5 in approved minor coursework.
Minimum of 6 hours at 300-400 level.