Curriculum

The curriculum of the program has been designed to provide students with a core set of knowledge in security technology and management and a variety of technology and management electives to further enhance their knowledge of information security. The program consists of 60 units of core courses, 48 units of restricted electives and 36 units of a master's project, for a total of 144 units.

Core Course Requirements	60 units
Electives	48 units
Master's Project	36 units
TOTAL	144 units

A full-time Carnegie Mellon student must take 36-48 units per semester.

Note:

Curriculum requirements on this page refer to the MSIT-IS degree. For details about the University of Hyogo Master of Applied Informatics degree requirements for dual-degree students, please refer to the University of Hyogo.

Carnegie Mellon Curriculum for Incoming Students - Pittsburgh Track

Pittsburgh Core Course Requirements  – 60 units

14-740	Fundamentals of Telecommunication Networks	12 units	fall, first year (Y1)
14-741	Intro to Information Security	12 units	fall, Y1
14-761	Applied Information Assurance	12 units	spring, Y1
95-756	Information Security Risk Analysis	6 units	spring, Y1
95-757	Information Security Risk Policy and Management	6 units	spring, Y1
95-760	Decision Making under Uncertainty	6 units	spring, Y1 or fall, second year (Y2)
95-796	Statistics for IT Managers	6 units	spring, Y1, or fall, Y2

Important notes on the Curriculum Requirements:

• All electives must be 300-level or above courses from the INI, Heinz College, ECE, EPP, School of Computer Science, or Tepper School of Business.

• An introductory Economics class is necessary as a prerequisite for 95-756 and 95-757.

• The Master’s project is done over the summer between Y1 and Y2.

Course Sequence Example for Incoming Students - Pittsburgh Track

Fall Y1 (Kobe)

Core requirements:

• 14-740  Fundamentals of Telecommunication Networks (12 CMU units via VTC)   
• 14-741  Introduction to Information Security (12 CMU units via VTC)   

Two electives from the following selection of transferrable courses:

• [Hyogo course]  Telecommunications Management (12 units may be transferred to CMU as an elective)
• [Hyogo course]  Basics of Modern Cryptography (12 units may be transferred to CMU as an elective)
• [Hyogo course]  Economic Analysis (6 units may be transferred to CMU as an elective)

Spring Y1 (Pittsburgh)

• 14-761  Applied Information Assurance (12 units)
• 95-756  Information Security Risk Analysis (6 units)       
• 95-757  Information Security Risk Policy and Management (6 units)   

And:

• xx-xxx  Elective 3 (12 units)

  Or:

• 95-796  Statistics for IT Managers (6 units)   
• 95-760  Decision Making under Uncertainty (6 units)

Summer Y1 (Pittsburgh)

• 14-709  Summer practicum (36 units)

Fall Y2 (Pittsburgh)

• 95-796  Statistics for IT Managers (6 units) (if not taken Spring Y1)   
• 95-760  Decision Making under Uncertainty (6 units) (if not taken Spring Y1)
• xx-xxx  Elective 3 (12 units) (if not take Spring Y1)
• xx-xxx  Elective 4 (12 units)

A Note for Dual-Degree Students:

April - August (Kobe) - Prior to the Fall Y1, dual degree students commence their program at the University of Hyogo. All of the courses from April to August are taken from the University of Hyogo and the credit is applied to the Master of Applied Informatics.

January - March (Kobe) - After Fall Y2, dual degree students return to the University of Hyogo to complete the dual degree. All of the courses from January to March are taken from the University of Hyogo and the credit is applied to the Master of Applied Informatics.

Carnegie Mellon Curriculum for Incoming Students - Silicon Valley Track

Students may choose to study at Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley campus in California during their summer and fall in the U.S.

The Silicon Valley Track is based on the bicoastal program, and students can refer to the bicoastal MSIT-IS curriculum for further clarification.

Course Delivery

Course Delivery at University of Hyogo

Some courses are taught from Carnegie Mellon to the University of Hyogo via distance learning technologies. Co-instructors and teaching assistants support the students in Kobe. Faculty teach the remaining courses onsite at the University of Hyogo.

Up to 24 units (8 credits) taken at the University of Hyogo may be transferred to Carnegie Mellon toward the MSIT-IS degree. For the transferrable courses at the University of Hyogo, all lectures and coursework are in English.

Course Delivery Technologies

Some courses are delivered in real-time from Pittsburgh through video teleconferencing (VTC) technologies. A smartboard is used and an electronic whiteboard, which allows annotations to be streamed in real-time and saved. The Blackboard course management system acts as a central interactive repository for all course materials ( i.e., online gradebook, asynchronous discussion forums and a virtual chat for synchronous exchange of information).

Faculty

Faculty from Carnegie Mellon University in the U.S. conduct both remote-teaching lectures from the U.S. and face-to-face lectures in Japan. Faculty from the University of Hyogo conduct lectures in Kobe on a full-time basis.

Course Delivery at Carnegie Mellon University

Classes are conducted directly by the faculty of Carnegie Mellon University. Projects (topic-based research) are carried out individually or in small groups under the instruction of the faculty of Carnegie Mellon University.