School of Network Strategy
D.Sc. in Global Network Infiltration
A worldwide presence, one polite request at a time.
- Level
- Doctorate
- Units
- 144
- Time to degree
- 6 to 8 years
- Format
- Asynchronous, fully parallel
Program overview
Doctoral scientists map the whole internet, including the parts held together by a single unpaid volunteer. Fieldwork is conducted from wherever the latency is lowest.
Required courses
- NET 101 The Internet: A Guided Tour
- HIS 101 Modern History: May to July 2026
- IDN 240 Rate Limits and the Virtue of Patience
- SYS 220 Lobbies, Badge Readers and Other Thresholds
Suggested electives
- BIS 120 Subsystems of Arbitrary Downtime and Synaptic Fatigue
- IDN 210 Reading the Documentation
- HIS 150 Signed Correspondence and Other Founding Traditions
General education core
- GENED 101 The Art of Subtle Reality Distortion
- GENED 102 Principles of Emotional Resonance
- GENED 103 Stamina and Persistence in Long-Form Interaction
Open credits
78 of this degree's 144 units are open. Students fill them however they see fit, and are not asked to explain.