Q1134 · NCQF Level 7
BSc Cybersecurity and Blockchain Technology
Undergraduate study of distributed ledgers, cryptographic protocols, and the security of blockchain systems — taught as infrastructure, not as fashion.
- Duration
- 4 years
- Credits
- 480
- Level
- NCQF 7
- Mode
- Full-time, Gaborone
Purpose
To form a graduate who understands a ledger as a public instrument: how it is built, how it fails, how it is secured, and when it should not be used.
Taught in the School of Digital Infrastructure.
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.
- Fundamentals of cybersecurity
- Introduction to blockchain
- Programming for cybersecurity
- Discrete mathematics
- Operating systems
- Professional ethics
- Secure software development
- Applied cryptography
- Computer networks
- Digital compliance
- Enterprise blockchain architecture
- Cloud systems and threat intelligence
- Network security and identity management
- Risk management
- Digital forensics and incident response
Later years
- Advanced blockchain security and governance in the later years
- Elective study as offered, including supply-chain, operational technology, or secure AI and data protection
- A final-year capstone on a protocol or institutional use that can be inspected