Due to the general education reductions in the 2013/15 catalog, students in this concentration are able to take 25 quarter units of Mathematics courses, 30 quarter units of GINS courses, and 67 quarter units of Computer Science courses, while still only requiring 180 quarter units for graduation.
Information Security major course requirements:
2013/15 Information Security track
Information Security major checklist:
2013/15 Information Security checklist
Please refer to the CEE/CS Degree Information page for information about the Quarter-to-Semester transition.
Computer Science minor with Information Security focus (quarter):
DOC PDF
Computer Science minor checklist (the 2011/13 checklist also works for the 2013/15 catalog):
2011/13 CS Minor
Please refer to the CEE/CS Degree Information page for information about the Quarter-to-Semester transition.
For students in Computer Science/Engineering who do not want to switch to the Information Security concentration, the biggest challenge with adding a GINS minor to the Computer Science or Computer Engineering major is the number of courses required. The minor courses will not double-count towards the major requirements for the traditional Computer Science or Computer Engineering degrees. However, the Computer Information Systems concentration in Computer Science can count the GINS courses towards their elective requirements (CIS students can offset general electives with a declared minor, but they cannot offset the 400-level advanced CMPS elective).
The following are additional resources for developing foreign language skills:
- Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program
- List of Critical Languages available through CLS Program
- Office of the Director of National Intelligence Foreign Language resources (includes other scholarship programs)
- The 2015 workshop agenda and materials can be found at http://www.cs.csub.edu/~melissa/revs-up/
- The 2014 workshop agenda and materials can be found at http://www.cs.csub.edu/~melissa/revs-up/index_2014.php