BSc (Hons) - Security, Intelligence and Cyber with Integrated Foundation Year
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What does this mean?
Our BSc (Hons) Intelligence, Cyber and National Security Studies with Integrated Foundation Year course draws on connections with local, national and global professional to guide you from a foundational understanding to a critical, applied position. You’ll learn to design intelligence collection plans, strategically manage investigations, and develop solutions to security and cyber threats and risk scenarios, from local incidents to global events. Contemporary case studies are used throughout to illustrate the theoretical knowledge required by industry professionals.
Designed with employers in mind and delivered on the doorstep of BAE Systems and the Sellafield nuclear enterprise, our degree offers unrivalled access to real-world scenarios, guest experts, and live briefs across civil nuclear and critical national infrastructure. With work-integrated learning, small-group teaching, and a strong regional placement network, you’ll be well prepared to enter the workforce upon graduation.
Course Overview
The BSc (Hons) Security, Intelligence and Cyber with Integrated Foundation Year is designed around strong and continuous engagement with industry, ensuring that students encounter authentic professional practices, current sector challenges, and employer expectations throughout their studies.
Our degree aims to prepare you for graduate employment in finance functions and the wider business environment, and for progression towards professional accountancy qualifications. The course integrates accounting and finance theory with applied practice, supported by authentic assessment, workplace learning, and digital tools. You’ll explore how intelligence agencies operate, how governments respond to threats, and how security policies are shaped in an increasingly complex world.
On this course you will...
- Apply a specialised and diverse base of graduate knowledge, understanding and skills developed during the programme in the context of security, intelligence and cyber protection.
- Utilise a range of analytical and research methodologies critically, allowing you to undertake ethically sound, professional, evidence- based empirical research.
- Critically apply key elements of security theory, cyber protection principles, intelligence practice and research to a range of practical and professional contexts in a digitally developing world.
- Progressively develop your intellectual capacities, career management skills and digital capability, whilst allowing for the development of a range of interpersonal and transferrable skills, commensurate with relevant professional competencies.
- Interpret, evaluate and present evidence in various legal contexts.
- Develop creative, adaptable problem-solving decision makers who can draw on critical awareness with an understanding of the importance of continuous professional development.
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