ERAL 4101 Cybersecurity: Innovation, Technology, and Formative Development
This course presents key formative development frameworks and examines their application to current innovations and technologies. Cyberstrategic impacts upon individuals, educational and community settings, future of work, and across key industries are considered. Students use examples and case material from health and biotechnology, environmental and energy, information sciences and social media, and human-centric applied psychology approaches to better understand and gain experience applying models; engaging a constellation of varied stakeholders; fostering a culture of continuous formation and discernment within and across incorporeal cyberspaces; overseeing and facilitating best practices and behaviors; and appropriately responding to cyber trends and cyber trajectories.
Course overview
- Department
- Experience, Reflection, Action
- School
- Lynch
- Credits
- 3
- Level
- Undergraduate
- Offered
- Periodically
Course evaluations
- Course rating
- 3.80 / 5 · Very Good
- Instructor rating
- 3.93 / 5 · Very Good
- Terms evaluated
- 4
| Term | Instructor | Course overall | Instructor overall | Well organized | Clear learning objectives | Intellectually challenging | Helpful assignments | Applicable beyond course | Attendance necessary | Weekly effort | Responses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summer 2025 | Julia Whitcavitch-Devoy | 4.0 | 4.5 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 4.5 | 4.5 | 4.5 | — | 2 of 6 |
| Summer 2024 | Julia Whitcavitch-Devoy | 4.0 | 4.0 | 4.5 | 4.0 | 3.8 | 4.5 | 4.5 | 4.5 | — | 5 of 19 |
| Summer 2023 | Julia Whitcavitch-Devoy | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 3 of 32 |
| Summer 2022 | Julia Whitcavitch-Devoy | 3.8 | 3.8 | 4.4 | 4.0 | 4.2 | 4.4 | 4.2 | 3.0 | 1–3 hrs/week | 5 of 27 |