This course will provide a comprehensive cybersecurity introduction, covering essential topics ranging from fundamental principles to advanced techniques. Students will gain practical skills and theoretical knowledge to secure systems, networks, and applications against modern cyber threats.

Course Modules:

1. Introduction to Cybersecurity

   • Importance of cybersecurity in modern society
   • Overview of common cyber threats and attacks

2. Network Security

   • Understanding network fundamentals (OSI model, TCP/IP)
   • Defending against network attacks and implementing security mechanisms

3. Cryptography

   • Basic concepts and types of cryptography (symmetric, asymmetric)
   • In-depth study of AES, RSA, ECC, and hash functions

4. Operating System Security

   • Techniques for securing operating systems
   • Importance of patch management and access control

5. Application Security

   • Secure software development practices
   • Addressing vulnerabilities in web applications (OWASP Top 10)

6. Incident Response and Management

   • Incident handling process and classification
   • Principles of digital forensics and evidence collection

7. Legal and Ethical Aspects of Cybersecurity

   • Overview of cyber laws and regulations
   • Ethical considerations in cybersecurity, including ethical hacking

8. Capstone Project

   • Practical application of cybersecurity principles
   • Hands-on project solving real-world cybersecurity challenges

This subject aims to provide students with an understanding in the current production and production practices and also discuss some of future opportunities that may occur in animal production in Tonga and the Pacific.

The course contents will cover various aspects that determined to maximise productivity in animal production hence eliminate factors that hinder farmers from achieving their goals. Different practices from all over the world will included in this course if seems fit to exercise in Tonga.

Upon completion of this subject, students shall be able to 

• Describe the role and distribution of livestock in Tonga and the Pacific
• Identify the goals in animal breeding 
• Recognize the environmental effects on/of livestock
• Describe how climatic constraint are overcome 
• Discuss the factors affecting growth in Livestock
• Discuss factors to consider in animal production
• Discuss lactation
• Explain the nutritional aspects of animal production 
• Describe the function of animal digestive system 
• Recognize the nutritional value of animal feeds
• Explain the production of poultry, beef, cattle, dairy, swine, sheep and horses
• Evaluate the issues relative to animal welfare

This course is compulsory for all students who are enrolling for Certificate Level. Writing, reading,
listening, speaking, researching, and critical thinking are major features of life at the workplace and
in higher education. As such, this course is designed to equip and upgrade students with these
skills. The topics are designed to provide skills to assist those in the workplace with their assigned
tasks and also for those who continue with further studies, they should be able to cope with writing
good essays, plan and carry out good researches on projects and assignments, and be able to write
good reports and make good presentations.

This course introduces the students to the world and the course is designed to equip them with knowledge and skills needed to cope and maintain a healthy environment to work at. The course covers knowledge of workplace documents such as the Duty Statements and their purpose, the reciprocal nature, rights and responsibilities of employers and employees, and the importance of their cooperation in the workplace. It also covers the function, organisational structure, goals and goals and objectives of both public and private organisations. It covers principles and implementation of equal opportunity and anti-discriminations. It covers principles and implementation of equal opportunity and anti-discrimination as they apply to the workplace, and the ongoing changes that can occur in the workplace. 

The Working and Social Skills is a course that was developed with the intention of enriching students with the necessary working and social skills needed in the market.

It will help enhance the working and social skills of students so that they could practice them in the various work places that they take up whether locally or internationally.

This Module intends to enable the students to identify and explain the elements of values and ethics in journalism, namely: roles, functions, ethical standards and ethical practices, the process of decision-making and evaluation of decisions; and to translate principles into practice in the formulation of decisions

This module describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to produce media reports in environments with limited access to
media production equipment.

• The unit introduces students to skills and concepts underpinning audio visual production and explores a range of widely available technologies for media production including the use of smart phones or tablets and standard computer operating software.
• Students will investigate available media production technology and develop media production skills.
• Students will work collaboratively to produce media content for specified media markets and formats.
• At the end of the module, students will be expected to use computers or other widely available technology such as smart phones or tablets to produce media content for print, online or broadcast distribution.
  

The course focuses on the development of students’ skills to

1) understand the difference (and similarities) between broadcast and print journalism,

2) gain knowledge and understanding of journalists’ skills as broadcasters in news and current affairs and in a range of talk genres,

3) understand the role(s), construction and presentation of talkback radio;

4) improve broadcast interviewing skills to an advanced level

5) gain knowledge and understanding of documentary-making

6) apply this knowledge in reporting.

This Module is designed as a continuation of Civics Module.  This Module furthers the focus on the practice of political reporting, concluding work on social and political systems, especially regional institutions and relationships and an interweaving theme of gender perspectives and gender-sensitivity in journalism. 

At the end of the semester, the students will have developed or are expected to:

1)    Explore the practice of political reporting;

2)    Practice the key elements of political journalism with an understanding of political systems and regional perspectives;

3)    Identify national and regional issues and the organisations/institutions that handle these issues;

4)    Understand Information Disclosure policies and Freedom of Information and how it relaters to political reporting;

5)    Develop an awareness and sensitivity toward various ways of how and why gender can impact media content and to become more critical thinking producers and consumers of media by applying gender-sensitive concepts and practices to journalism; and

6)    Engage in sensitive issues and matters of public importance through research and producing media.

This module focuses on the use of quality Information Technologies (IT) vis-à-vis the computer as a fundamental tool in journalism as a profession.  Introduced to the best principles and practices of IT applications, the students will be able to use effectively the Web-based IT as basic tools in journalism. 

General Objectives:

At the end of the module, the students will have been able to maximise their use of the computer and the internet in conducting research work and in preparing for news reports/stories and other related information materials.

Furthermore, the module aims to provide meaningful technical and computer skills for an audience primarily concerned with media in the form of newspaper and radio. 

The computer skills being taught would have to be in an area suitable for media; this includes, web design, web page maintenance and effective internet usage. The web design module is of particular importance as this enables a method for broadcasting news to a much larger audience for a minimal overhead.

This module educates media students about Culture and Tradition in five Pacific Island countries.  It facilitates learning about culture and tradition and how these systems affect the work of journalists and media practitioners.

It is designed for students’ practical and theoretical application of the necessary knowledge and attitudes for their work in the media.

General Objectives:

This Module aims to:

1.    Equip the students with the necessary knowledge, skills and attitudes to take the traditions and cultures into account in their work; and

2.    Equip the students with the necessary understanding to reflect as media practitioners on the traditions and cultures in the societies in which they may work.