Master of Social Work (Professional Qualifying) at Southern Cross University

Become a leader in cyber security, equipped with new and exciting ways to meet the security challenges of the future. This one year postgraduate program aims to create specialists with a deep understanding of cyber security's impact on every aspect of modern life, and to empower cyber security leaders for a resilient, more productive digital future. You'll undertake advanced level courses covering a range of key topics. You'll learn about the major cyber security challenges facing the world and a range of responses, including technical, policy, organisational, governance and geopolitical. You'll gain integrated learning experience and advance your professional network by working with a cohort with diverse backgrounds from technology, business, mathematics and humanities, unique to UQ. As a result, you'll be equipped to look at the field from a different angle, ask bigger questions, and find new and exciting ways to tackle real and emerging cyber security threats. Program highlights Study specialised topics such as cryptography, cyber criminology, cyber defence and leadership. Gain integrated learning experience and advance your professional network. Undertake an industry or research-based project to improve your workforce readiness. Acquire a global perspective on cyber security and information security fundamentals.

We bring together students from technology, business, mathematics, social science and law to offer an integrated learning experience, unique to UQ. This is a new degree for a new kind of professional, aligned to the National Institute of Standards and Technology's internationally-recognised Cyber Security Education framework, taught by leading academics and industry professionals, with a truly inter-disciplinary approach to the field. You will develop an understanding of the global cyber security landscape, informed by industry and government experts, to find better ways to defend, adapt and lead for a resilient, more productive digital world. Wherever you're positioned in your career, you'll look at the field from a different angle, ask bigger questions, and find new and exciting ways to meet the security challenges of the future. Research and industry capstone allows students to tackle a significant topic in their discipline of choice, improving their workforce readiness. With flexibility to undertake a research activity within the university or a research-based project as part of an optional work placement, diverse post-program career pathways are opened as industry or research-based professionals. Program highlights Study specialised topics such as cryptography, cyber criminology, cyber defence and leadership. Gain integrated learning experience and advance your professional network. Undertake an industry or research-based project to improve your workforce readiness. Acquire a global perspective on cyber security and information security fundamentals.