Cybersecurity

The Cybersecurity Pathway is a comprehensive program designed to equip students with the essential knowledge and skills to protect information systems from cyber threats. This pathway integrates theoretical knowledge with practical skills, preparing students for various cybersecurity roles in today’s digital world. Through a blend of lectures, hands-on labs, electronic games, drone programming and real-world scenarios, students will gain expertise in safeguarding networks, managing security policies, and responding to cyber incidents.

Intro to Hardware and Technology

Introduction to Hardware Technology provides students with a fundamental understanding of computer hardware components and their interactions within modern computing systems. This course is designed to introduce the essential concepts of hardware architecture, component functionality, and system integration. Through hands-on labs, demonstrations, and theoretical study, students will gain the skills necessary to assemble, configure, and troubleshoot computer hardware, laying the groundwork for more advanced studies in computing and IT.

Intro to Cybersecurity

The course examines how the concept of security integrates into the importance of use involvement, security training, ethics, trust, application of cybersecurity practices and devices, and best practices management. Various forms of technologies will be used to expose students to resources, software, and applications of cybersecurity. Employability skills are integrated into activities, tasks, and projects throughout the course standards to demonstrate the skills required by business and industry. Introduction to Cybersecurity is the second course in the pathway of the Information Technology Career Cluster and primarily focuses on the National Cybersecurity Workforce Framework category Protect and Defend the Computer Network Defese work roles.

Advanced Cybersecurity

The course builds on existing concepts introduced in Introduction to Cybersecurity and expands into malware threats, crypto pgraphy, organization security, and wireless technologies. Employability skills are integrated into activities, tasks, and projects throughout the course standards to demonstrate the skills required by business and industry.