University of Idaho Information Assurance Curriculum

The University of Idaho offers students a wide variety of options for obtaining information assurance education. Topical content for information assurance exists in many of our courses, some of which are listed at the bottom of this page. However, students with a strong interest in information assurance and encouraged to follow a program of study in this important field. Currently we have the following curriculum options available to students.

University of Idaho IA-specific Curriculum Options

University of Idaho Courses with IA content

University of Idaho Information Assurance and Related Courses
ACCT 275	Accounting Information Systems
ACCT 305	Accounting Information Systems
ACCT 492	Auditing and Controls
ACCT 570	Advanced Accounting Systems Analysis and Controls
ACCT 590	Advanced Auditing Seminar

BLAW 265	Legal Environment of Business

BUS 250	Introductory Systems Development
BUS 340	Team Building and Group Dynamics
BUS 352	Modern Information Technology
BUS 355	Systems Analysis and Design
BUS 452	Business Telecommunications Management
BUS 453	Database Design
BUS 454	Current Issues in Information Systems
BUS 533	Strategies for Managing Complex Systems

CS 101	Introduction to Computer Science
CS 112	Introduction to Problem Solving and Programming
CS 120	Computer Science I
CS 121	Computer science II
CS 336	Introduction to Information Assurance (new course starting FALL 2005)
CS 337	Computer Security Concepts (begin renumbered to 337/537, FALL 2005)
CS 423/523	Network Security (being renumbered 338/538, FALL 2005)


CS 341	Computer Operating Systems (being replaced with CS 240, FALL 2005)
CS 360	Database Systems
CS 381	Software Engineering
CS 401	Contemporary Issues in Computer Science
CS 480	Design - Individual Project
CS 541	Operating Systems
CS 413/513	Concurrent Systems
CS 420/520	Communication Systems
CS 423/523	Network Security (being renumbered 338/538, FALL 2005)
CS 442/542	Computer Security Concepts (begin renumbered to 337/537, FALL 2005)
CS 449/549	Fault-Tolerant Systems

ECE 350	Signals and Systems I
ECE 452	Communication Systems
ECE 455	Information and Coding Theory
ECE 554	Information Theory I
ECE 555	Information Theory II
ECE 556	Adaptive Signal Processing

Approved IA Special Topics Courses

(for electives in BS, MS and PhD programs, and in the Certificate in Secure and Dependable Systems)

Term and Course Number	Course Title
Spring 2005
CS 404/504	Secure and Survivable Real-Time Control Systems
Math 435	Computer Security and Cryptography

Fall 2004
CS 404/504	Secure E-Commerce
CS 499/502	Designing RADICL - A Reconfigurable Attack/Defend Instructional Computing Laboratory

Spring 2004
CS 404/504	Secure and Survivable Real-Time Control Systems
CS 404/504	Computer/Network Forensics (will be 447/547 starting Fall 2005)

Fall 2003
CS 404/504	Applied Security Techniques
CS 504	Intrusion Detection Systems
CS 502	Honeynet Forenscis

Spring 2003
CS 404/504	Powergrid Security
CS 404/504	Survivable Systems (now CS 449/549)

Fall 2002
CS 404/503	Intrusion Detection Systems