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Cybersecurity for Future Presidents: An Interdisciplinary Non-majors Course

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Aparna Das,

David Voorhees,

Cynthia Choi,

Carl E. LandwehrAuthors Info & Claims

SIGCSE '17: Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Pages 141 - 146

https://doi.org/10.1145/3017680.3017713

Published: 08 March 2017 Publication History

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We discuss the design and implementation of an interdisciplinary non-majors course Cybersecurity for future presidents, which broadens the types of computational courses available for non-majors. The goal of our course is to build awareness of cybersecurity issues and to promote thinking critically about them. Student debates on controversial cybersecurity issues facing society today motivate the technical and policy content. We present student assessment results, which demonstrate an increase of students' awareness, and outline directions for future course improvements.

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Cybersecurity for Future Presidents: An Interdisciplinary Non-majors Course
1. Security and privacy
  1. Human and societal aspects of security and privacy
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Computing / technology policy
    1. Computer crime
    2. Government technology policy

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March 2017

838 pages

ISBN:9781450346986

DOI:10.1145/3017680

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Aarhus University
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Virginia Tech
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North Carolina State University
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University of California, Berkeley

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3641554.3701811
Breitinger FTully-Doyle RPrzyborski KBeck LHarichandran R(2021)First year students’ experience in a Cyber World course – an evaluationEducation and Information Technologies10.1007/s10639-020-10274-526:1(1069-1087)Online publication date: 1-Jan-2021
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Sardar TWahsheh L(2020)Design of a cyber security awareness campaign to be implemented in a quarantine laboratoryJournal of Computing Sciences in Colleges10.5555/3417682.341768335:9(11-18)Online publication date: 12-Aug-2020
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