Warsaw, Poland

Security

Bachelor's

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⇑Security at Civitas

Language: English Studies in English

Subject area: security services

Kind of studies: full-time studies

Description:
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Specialities:

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 minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only ends, somehow, and the only basis of law — a perversion. Inevitably, then, in seeking only them, we found only their opposites: maximum suffering and minimum security.

Walter M. Miller, Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz, Fiat Voluntas Tua, Ch. 29 (1959)

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Security

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than only freedom can make security more secure.

Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945)

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Security

Everywhere, men resign themselves to the most extreme sacrifices rather than do without government and hence security, without realizing that in so doing, they misjudge their alternatives.Suppose that a man found his person and his means of survival incessantly menaced; wouldn't his first and constant preoccupation be to protect himself from the dangers that surround him? This preoccupation, these efforts, this labor, would necessarily absorb the greater portion of his time, as well as the most energetic and active faculties of his intelligence. In consequence, he could only devote insufficient and uncertain efforts, and his divided attention, to the satisfaction of his other needs.
Even though this man might be asked to surrender a very considerable portion of his time and of his labor to someone who takes it upon himself to guarantee the peaceful possession of his person and his goods, wouldn't it be to his advantage to conclude this bargain?
Still, it would obviously be no less in his self-interest to procure his security at the lowest price possible.

Gustave de Molinari, tr. J. Huston McCulloch, §I of The Production of Security (Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2009; orig. 1849), pp. 20–21.

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