2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
    Nov 21, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Cyber Threat Intelligence and Financial Crimes Investigations, B.S.


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The Cyber Threat Intelligence and Financial Crimes program offers a novel approach to undergraduate education and a growing field of need within the public and private sectors. The program prepares students in the art of analytics, critical thinking, participation in working groups, and application methods. The program offers innovative curriculum in a flexible, online and seated format, and can be used as a degree completion program. Students can add specializations in investigative tracks depending on their career goals: organized crime, sports integrity, financial intelligence, trafficking in persons, healthcare fraud, etc.  The BS in Cyber Threat Intelligence and Financial Crimes requires the completion of 121 credits.

Program Objectives:

  • Engage in corporate/business or public sector cyber/financial crimes investigations.
  • Advance their careers in cyber/financial crimes investigations - private or public. 
  • Obtain admission to advanced graduate programs.

Program Outcomes:

  1. Analyze financial information.
  2. Analyze cyber Intelligence.
  3. Integrate findings of financial and cyber intelligence into written reports.
  4. Develop appropriate information sharing strategies for a threat to a community or organization.
  5. Explain legal principles that affect the investigative strategies.

University Core Curriculum


  • C1T1: ENGL 1112  or ENGL 1113  or ENGL 1114  
  • C2T1: COMM 1130   
  • C3T1: MATH 1107  or higher
  • C4T1: any course approved for competency 4 
  • C5T1: UNIV 1125   
  • C6T1: any course approved for competency 6 
  • C7T1: SOCI 1113  
  • C8T1: any course approved for competency 8 
  • C9T1: any course approved for competency 9 
  • Plus 12 credits of Tier 2 courses  from any competency

Restricted Electives


Select 18 credits of INVS-prefixed courses from the following areas in consultation with your advisor:

  • Human Trafficking
  • Sports Wagering
  • Wildlife and Animal Cruelty
  • Healthcare Fraud
  • Organized Retail Crime
  • Digital Forensics
  • Elder Exploitation
  • Child Exploitation

Free Electives


Select 12 credits of free electives from any discipline in consultation with your advisor.

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