Warsaw, Poland

Security
(field of studies: Security)

Bachelor's

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⇑Security at Civitas

Field of studies: Security

Language: English Studies in English

Subject area: security services

Kind of studies: full-time studies

Description:
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University website: www.civitas.edu.pl/en/

⇑Why study Security at Civitas University?

Dlaczego warto studiować na Uniwersytecie Civitas

Why study it:

Programme: what you study
Specialisation: security or cybersecurity
Placements: internships and languages
After graduation: where graduates can work

Civitas University in Warsaw offers Security as a three-year, full-time bachelor's programme taught in English, with Security and Cybersecurity as specialisations. It suits school-leavers who want to protect people, institutions and data.

Programme: what you study

The core curriculum includes:

the legal foundations of national security and an introduction to the science of security
the national security system and crisis management within it
international security institutions at global and regional level, and international threats to internal security
hybrid conflicts and asymmetric threats
the security of local communities, of energy supply and of critical infrastructure
security in cyberspace, plus a security laboratory

Specialisation: security or cybersecurity

Specialisations

Securityrisk analysis, information protection, crisis communication, the work of uniformed and special services, the causes of crime and offender profiling
Cybersecuritythreats in cyberspace, risk-analysis tools and audits, incident response systems, ethical hacking and social engineering
Your own pathyou do not have to commit to one: you can combine subjects from different specialisations and still earn the degree

Placements: internships and languages

Professional internships are part of the plan. You also attend diploma classes and physical education, and take a language course in English, French, Spanish or German, though not in your native language.

After graduation: where graduates can work

You can work as a security specialist in uniformed services such as the Police, the Border Guard, the Armed Forces or the Fire Service, or in public administration, for instance in crisis management units of the Ministry of the Interior and Administration and of regional and city offices. Professional security firms hire for personal and property protection, monitoring and protection systems, and the special services, such as ABW or AW, rely on analytical skills.

On the cyber side, graduates become cybersecurity specialists and auditors of IT security systems, information and data analysts, or digital forensics experts supporting law enforcement. Security analysts are also needed in advisory firms, media, NGOs and think tanks, and some graduates become journalists who specialise in security or cybersecurity.

Based on the programme pages at civitas.edu.pl.

⇑Test: Is Security the right fit for you?

⇑Definitions and quotes

Security

Security is freedom from, or resilience against, potential harm (or other unwanted coercive change) from external forces. Beneficiaries (technically referents) of security may be persons and social groups, objects and institutions, ecosystems, and any other entity or phenomenon vulnerable to unwanted change by its environment.

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Security

To bargain freedom for security is the devil's bargain. Having made the bargain, one enjoys neither freedom nor security.

Gerry Spence, Give Me Liberty! Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century, Ch. 16 : Security, the One-Way Ticket to Slavery, p. 174 (1998)

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Security

From that point, my universe went on crumbling; new cracks appeared all the time. I could see that the pleasant securities of childhood, all of those warm little human emotions, all of those trivial aims and purposes that we allow to rule our lives, were an illusion. We were like sheep munching grass, unaware that the butcher's lorry is already on its way. I got used to living with a deep, underlying feeling of uncertainty that no one around me seemed to share. It was rather like living on death row.

Colin Wilson in Alien Dawn, pp. 12-13 (1998)

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Security

This option the consumer retains of being able to buy security wherever he pleases brings about a constant emulation among all the producers, each producer striving to maintain or augment his clientele with the attraction of cheapness or of faster, more complete and better justice.If, on the contrary, the consumer is not free to buy security wherever he pleases, you forthwith see open up a large profession dedicated to arbitrariness and bad management. Justice becomes slow and costly, the police vexatious, individual liberty is no longer respected, the price of security is abusively inflated and inequitably apportioned, according to the power and influence of this or that class of consumers. The protectors engage in bitter struggles to wrest customers from one another. In a word, all the abuses inherent in monopoly or in communism crop up.

Gustave de Molinari, tr. J. Huston McCulloch, §X of The Production of Security (Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2009; orig. 1849), pp. 57–59.

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