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About Study Course

Credit points / ECTS:4 / 6
Course supervisor:Vitālijs Rakstiņš
Study type:Part time
Course level:Master's
Target audience:Civil and Military Defense; Juridical Science
Language:Latvian
Branch of science:Law

Objective

To provide students with the opportunity to acquire the understanding and skills: about economic and financial cybercrimes in the field of criminal law and criminal procedure, identification and solving of crime in the field of economics and information and communication technologies, to promote a deeper understanding of ensuring cybersecurity and effective management thereof.

Prerequisites

Fundamentals of Information and Communication Technologies, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure Law.

Learning outcomes

Knowledge

Upon successful completion of the study course, students:
- are familiar with international and national laws and regulations in the field of cybersecurity and combating cybercrime;
- analyse legal norms that regulate economic and financial cybercrimes and security of information systems and are able to apply them practically;
- integrate the obtained knowledge and contribute to the creation of new knowledge.

Skills

Upon successful completion of the study course, students:
- critically analyse specific situations in case of cyberthreats and propose solutions by applying the provisions of the Criminal Law and the Criminal Procedure Law, ensuring the security of information systems;
- identify cyberthreats, cyberincidents and crimes in the digital environment;
- obtain and use digital evidence.

Competence

Upon successful completion of the study course, students:
- identify economic and financial cybercrime, are able to use them practically, managing the investigation process;
- independently analyse the state of economic-financial crime in the cyberspace, identify its trends and determining factors and develop the most optimal methods to prevent economic-financial crime in the digital environment;
- conduct research in the field of studying cybercrime;
- are competent in investigating economic crime, working with evidence gathered in the digital environment, and advising investigators who use other methods of gathering evidence;
- creatively and constructively justify their opinion.

Study course planning

Planning period:Year 2025, Spring semester
Study programmeStudy semesterProgram levelStudy course categoryLecturersSchedule
Protection of economic security, EDAMN 2Master’sLimited choice