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BIT-4164: Future of Security: Integrative Solutions for Complex Security Systems

Description: Identification and analysis of complex, real-world security problems and threats to people, organizations, and nations across multiple domains, roles and future scenarios. Crisis communication, decision making tools, ethical principles and problem-solving methods to respond, assess options, plan, scope, and communicate before, during and after conflicts, disasters and attacks. Use of an experiential learning facility, and participation in a reality-based team simulation of cascading security and disaster events.

Pathways: 1A Discourse Advanced, 10 Ethical Reasoning

Course Hours: 3 credits

Prerequisites: BIT-2164 or CS-2164 or PSCI-2164

Required By: N/A

Corequisites: N/A

Crosslist: CS-4164, PSCI-4164

Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 8

Average GPA: 3.90 (rounds to A)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 81.17%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 0.54%

Hailong Zhang202497.4%1.6%0.0%0.0%0.0%1.1%3.944
Aaron F Brantly202489.7%4.8%5.6%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.843
Anthony O Vance2022100.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.901

Grade Distribution Over Time

1234GPA
Spring 2021Fall 2021Spring 2022Fall 2022Spring 2023Fall 2023Spring 2024Fall 2024Term050% W