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MSISPM Course Information

Course Electives

Through our diverse electives, you can modify your curriculum to suit your needs and experience. Areas of domain expertise include the economics of risk management, privacy, and information assurance. Enhance your skills through a choice of 36 to 48 units of general electives or 36 units of security electives.

Security Electives (36 units):

The best part of the MSISPM program? It attracts faculty from across the university and industry to offer a rich set of courses to boost your learning potential. Choose from the security electives below, and/or from among those offered by the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Institute of Technology, Software Engineering Institute, and the Tepper School of Business.

  • Information Assurance Policy
  • Internet Security
  • Applied Cryptography
  • Information Security: A Comparison of American and European Policies
  • Information Warfare
  • Privacy, Policy Law and Technology
  • Information Security Risk Analysis
  • Terrorism, Security and Intelligence
  • Privacy in the Digital Age
  • Network Security Analysis
  • Network Situational Awareness
  • Hacking Exposed
  • Incident Response
  • Privacy & Confidentiality: Models & Implementations 

General Electives (36-48 units):

Broaden your knowledge in information security or choose courses that intrigue your imagination. The courses below are a small subset of what you can take. Your advisor or program director can discuss other possible options.

  • Leadership: Innovation and Organizational Change
  • Negotiation
  • Strategic Marketing/Communications
  • Power and Influence
  • IT Project Management
  • Competitive Strategy
  • Managing Service Organizations
  • Multi-Media
  • Global eBusiness Strategy
  • Entrepreneurism
  • Data Mining
  • Data Warehousing
  • Health Care Information Systems
  • Management of Computer and Information Systems
  • Geographic Information Systems
  • Decision Support Systems
  • Electronic Commerce Technologies
  • E-Business Technology and Management
  • Electronic Commerce Marketing
  • Algorithms and Data Structures for Information Processing
  • Transformational Leadership

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