CS6038 Syllabus

This is a rough syllabus for the course. Topics may change week to week as I develop the curriculum further and in response to student feedback.

Grading

The course consists of mostly hands-on work analysing artifacts. Therefore, the entire class will consist of projects (6), a final project that will be made available toward the last week of class, and some “participation” scores which may consist of unannounced class-time quizzes, mini-assignments, or forum discussions. The final project will be a malware lab assignment that will attempt to comprehensively test your abilities on the topics covered during the entire semester.

The contribution of each of these to your score will be as follows: