The course 'Introduction to cyberspace' gives you a broad introduction into the digitally networked environment that we know as cyberspace. It sheds light on the technical basis of this environment, but also teaches you about the legal, regulatory, governance and organisational challenges of this environment.

'Introduction to cyber security' provides you with a broad introduction to the biggest security challenges in and of cyberspace. It gives you insight in both the technical root causes of these challenges and the ‘human side’ of security issues in cyberspace, for instance focusing on human behavior.

The course 'Cyber risk' provides you with a broad introduction into one of the key concepts that underpins cybersecurity challenges today: the notion of risk. It familiarizes you with one of the most important approaches to understanding risk in cybersecurity: risk management. It also shows you what the limitations of this approach are, and provides you with insights from the social sciences on risk to enrich our understanding of risk in cyberspace.

You can follow our introductory courses as a non-examination student, which means you join the regular lectures without taking part in the course assignments and without taking the exam.

At the end you receive a participation certificate, which does not contain any study results (as no exam was taken).

You can also follow our introductory courses as a contract student, which means you join the regular lectures and have the right to take part in the course assignments and to take the exam alongside the regular students. The results you achieve are recorded and can help you obtain an exemption if you decide to go on to follow the full study program at a later stage.