Extended Major Overview
- Description
Almost every Information and Communications Technology (ICT) career path encompasses some aspect of cybersecurity. The Bachelor of Advanced Computer Science (Computing and Cybersecurity) will prepare you for a range of specialist cybersecurity roles with a global perspective. With industry-integrated learning, you'll gain the practical skills and knowledge to lead design, implementation and management of secure computer systems across a range of exciting career paths, protecting people and their data from cyber-attacks. The major provides you with strong computing and cybersecurity skills and includes advanced units. You also learn about human-computer interactions and the importance of human factors in cybersecurity, equipping you to create usable and secure systems.
- Outcomes
Students are able to:
- secure information systems across a range of industries and real world settings using mathematical, technical and business tools and an awareness of international political agendas
- design prevention and mitigation strategies to address specific cyber security challenges
- create secure computer systems
- perform effectively in a cybersecurity project team
- communicate cybersecurity concepts and techniques and results clearly in oral and written formats
- extend knowledge in cybersecurity through research, experimentation and analysis
- apply human-computer interactions and design principles to create usable, secure systems.
- Broadening guidelines
- All students studying towards a Bachelor's Degree at UWA are required to Broaden their studies by completing a minimum of four units (24 points) of study outside their degree specific major. Broadening is your opportunity to explore other areas of interest, investigate new disciplines and knowledge paradigms and to shape your degree to suit your own aspirations and interests. Many of you will be able to undertake more than this minimum amount of broadening study and we encourage you to do so if this suits your aspirations. Over the next few months you will find here some broadening suggestions related to your degree-specific major. While we know that many students value guidance of this sort, these are only suggestions and students should not lose sight of the opportunity to explore that is afforded by your Broadening Choices. Advice can also be sought from your Allocated Student Advising Office.
Suggested units to broaden your study area, are:
MATH1012 Mathematical Theory and Methods - Prerequisites
Mathematics Methods ATAR
- Incompatibilities
MJD-CMPSC Computer Science (ID 468) MJD-DATSC Data Science (ID 700) MJD-CYBER Cybersecurity (ID 4874)
- Courses
Computing and Cybersecurity [not available in 2026] can only be taken as a degree-specific major in the following degree courses:
No study plans found for this major. Check your chosen course, see study plans or contact your student advising office for more information.
Units
Key to availability of units:
- S1
- Semester 1
- S2
- Semester 2
- SS
- summer teaching period
- N/A
- not available in 2026 – may be available in 2027 or 2028
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- to be advised