Q1135 · NCQF Level 7
BSc Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence
A degree in the security of computing systems joined to machine learning — with attention to detection, response, and the limits of automated judgement.
- Duration
- 4 years
- Credits
- 480
- Level
- NCQF 7
- Mode
- Full-time, Gaborone
Purpose
To form a graduate who can apply learning methods to cyber threats, secure intelligent systems, reconstruct an incident, and state what a model cannot do.
Taught in the School of Cyber Security.
Assessment
Formative assessment 50 percent; summative assessment 50 percent. Internal and external moderation by registered assessors.
Instruction is by lecture and by practical class. Written work is set and returned with comment.
Fields of study
These are the subjects of the degree as registered. They are not a weekly timetable, and this draft does not invent a campus calendar around them.
- Digital literacy and communication
- Networking and discrete structures
- Programming and mathematics for ICT
- Computer systems and operating systems
- Cybersecurity essentials and professional practice
- Secure coding and database systems
- Computer networks and information security
- Ethical hacking methods
- Cybersecurity law and ethics
- Cyber threat intelligence
- Machine learning in security
- Data privacy and protection
- Cloud security and secure system design
- Incident detection, response, and forensic analysis
Later years
- Advanced defence, threat hunting, and security operations in later years
- Industrial attachment
- Capstone projects and a research proposal examined by the College