Changes in courses and scheduling in 2021-2022
As the new curriculums at TU/e and RU are being phased in, there will be some changes to the courses and to the scheduling of courses in 2021-2022. There will also be some new courses that you can take as electives.For the precise rules of what is allowed, check the exam regulations of your `home' university. (For a summary and pointers, check out transition to the new curriculum at RU or to the new curriculum at RU or transition to the new curriculum at TU/e.)
You can simply complete the old curriculum, but it may have advantages to switch to the new curriculum (especially if in the upcoming second year of your Master you still have to do some of the mandatory courses). Alternatively, you can do a combination of the old and new curriculum: the exam regulations will provide plenty of leeway to let you design your study programme to suit your own preference, and the examination boards may allow you even more leeway on an ad-hoc basis, as the transition to the new curriculums should of course not adversely affect existing students.
Below we list the changes in the courses and scheduling for the 2021/2022, which may also affect you if you stick to the old curriculum.
Changes at RU in 2021/2022
- The 5EC variants of the mandatory courses at RU,
i.e. Security in Organisations, Software Security, and Advanced
Network Security, are being phased out. There will still be
resit exams for the old 5EC versions, but if you still want to
take this courses in 2021/2022 you will have to enroll for the
6EC variant.
(The course codes for the 6EC variants are:
NWI-I00153 for Security in Organisations,
NWI-ISOFSE for Software Security
and NWI-IMC062 for Advanced Network Security.)
On an ad-hoc basis, the teachers of these courses may still let you do a 5EC version of the course (e.g. by dropping one of the assignments). To see if this is possible, check with the teacher at the start of the semester. (In Brightspace, you will still have to enroll for the 6EC versions.)
Another change is that the Advanced Network Security course is moved forward from the spring semester to the autumn semester.
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The optional courses Hardware Security and Crytographic
Engineering are refactored into four courses, as shown in the
table below. Also, the new courses that make up the old
Cryptographic Engineering course
are moved forward from the
spring semester (Q34) to the second quarter of the autumn
semester (Q2).
old course new courses NWI-IMC001 Hardware security (6EC, Q34)
taught by Batina & PollNWI-IMC068 Physical attacks on secure systems (6EC, Q34) taught by Batina & Buhan
NWI-IMC066 Security Protocol Project (3EC, Q3) taught by PollNWI-IMC039 Cryptographic Engineering (6EC, Q34)
taught by Batina & SchwabeNWI-IMC065 Selected topics on hardware for security (3EC, Q2) taught by Batina & Buhan
NWI-IMC064 Engineering Cryptographic Software (3EC, Q2) taught by Schwabe
Again, there will still be resit possibilities for the old courses that disappear. These will be arranged on an ad-hoc basis, given that all these courses are graded by project work anyway. If you still have to start these courses, you will have to switch to the new variants.
- A new course Capita Selecta in Cyber Security (NWI-IMC067, 6EC, Q34) will be taught in the spring semester by a new staff member at RU, Gunes Acar, on online tracking and privacy. This will be about the techniques to track users in browsers, smartphones or IoT devices and ways to detect or avoid such tracking.
- Another new option that might interest you if you are
interested in formal methods is the new course Program
Verification with Types and Logic (NWI-IMC060, 6EC, Q12), taught
by Robbert Krebbers.
- Note that already last year a few more options for specialisation electives were added for RU students, in the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning, namely NWI-IMC030 Machine Learning in Practice, NWI-IMC056 Statistical Machine Learning, and NWI-IMC058 Deep Learning. For TU/e students: whether these or the new RU courses above are also allowed as specialisation electives at TU/e is something to check with your local exam rules or the TRU/e coordinators at TU/e.