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  • SIS 400: International Security and Globalization

    0.00 - 3.00 Credits
    Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Prescott

    3 Credits An analysis of 21st-century international security issues related to scientific and technological change. Topics include the nature of security-economic, sociocultural, and military; political leadership/followership, decision making, and conflict resolution; political violence, especially terrorism and ethnic conflict; intelligence and counterintelligence analysis and operations; weapons proliferation; information warfare; the politics of international organized crime; bureaucratic evil; internal dislocation and immigration; and the politics of public health. A special focus throughout the course will be on the aviation and aerospace industries: policies and operations, safety, and security. This course will emphasize science, technology, and globalization as the environment in which concepts of international security evolve and as impacted by international security phenomena. Prerequisites: College-level psychology and college-level history or permission of instructor.
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  • SIS 405: Environment and Security

    0.00 - 3.00 Credits
    Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Prescott

    3 Credits This course is designed to introduce students to the contingencies and conflicts posed by the intersection of security and environmental issues, including disputes over ground water rights, international rivers, scarce energy resources, manipulation of crop gene pools, genetically modified crops, global migration, international treaties and conventions on environmental issues, and global climate change. Students will be introduced to environmental issues that pose significant security risks to a nation, affect a nation's economic wellbeing and/or military preparedness, and pose challenges to those laws governing the protection of the natural environment. Ethical issues will also be addressed, particularly as these relate to policy making on issues that span both environmental and security concerns. Prerequisite: SIS 315 or permission of the instructor.
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  • SIS 410: Business Security and Competitive Intelligence

    0.00 - 3.00 Credits
    Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Prescott

    3 Credits This course will focus on the security requirements of corporations, in both the domestic and international arenas. Among the topics addressed are personnel security, due diligence in hiring, physical security and access controls, government classification systems and requirements, political and security risk analysis, and corporate crisis and emergency planning and management. Included in the international sphere will be stakeholder analysis; the implications of cultural factors, legal systems, and international criminal threats; emergency extraction methodologies and actors; and kidnap and rescue. In addition, the course will develop approaches to competitive intelligence. This is the use of methods in the legal domain and using open source information to seek out and analyze the strategic plans of one's competitors, of their intended actions and investments, methods of operation, and corporate financial position. Prerequisites: SIS 312 and 315; or permission of the instructor.
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  • SIS 415: Studies in Global Intelligence II

    0.00 - 3.00 Credits
    Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Prescott

    3 Credits This course provides an intensive, semester-long simulation for teams of students assuming the roles of political, military, economic, or scientific and technological intelligence case officers. Through the semester-long immersion with an intelligence tasking, students will be expected to demonstrate sophistication with case officer-agent relationships; staffing and coordination involving the various combinations in one's intelligence station, among stations, and between one's station and regional and central headquarters; intelligence briefings, executive summaries, and estimates; credibility and risk analysis, both of sources and of recommendations concerning specific covert action, espionage, and counterintelligence operations; operations/physical/communications/ personnel securities; and the intelligence opportunities, limitations, and threats presented by today's era of globalization. Prerequisite: SIS 315 or permission of the instructor.
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  • SIS 420: Aviation Security and Technology

    0.00 - 3.00 Credits
    Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Prescott

    3 Credits This course will concentrate on the disciplines of security and intelligence as applied to aviation. Students will learn to apply the four core security disciplines: communications security, operations security, physical security, and personnel security. Of prime concern in this course is airport/aviation readiness to prevent and respond to the following threats: hijackings, CBRN attacks, bombings, missiles, and shootings as perpetrated by terrorists and/or various nonpolitical hijackers. Other topics include airport familiarization and safety; post 9/11 responses by the public, industry, and government; airport hardening; security screening; first responder roles and needs; the off-airport interface and multimodal infrastructure; cargo and general aviation issues; international security; biometrics and other emerging technologies; and airline security issues. Prerequisites: SIS 312 and SIS 315; or permission of the instructor.
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  • SIS 422: Homeland Security and Technology

    0.00 - 3.00 Credits
    Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Prescott

    3 Credits This course will examine the whole range of issues relevant to the defense and security of the U.S. homeland. These will include transportation security, immigration and border security, cargo security, the presence of radical elements in the United States, the statutory and regulatory structure, and the institutions and agencies responsible for homeland security at the federal, state, and local levels. Legal and ethical issues also will be examined, as these relate to national security and privacy. Prerequisite: SIS 315 or permission of the instructor.
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  • SIS 425: Personnel Security

    0.00 - 3.00 Credits
    Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Prescott

    3 Credits This course will focus on how to minimize violations of trust in the professional world. It does this through a detailed analysis of the selection, orientation, management, training, resignation, termination, and retirement of personnel in security, intelligence, business, and government organizations. The scope of this course embraces relevant material from the behavioral and social sciences, philosophy, history, computer science, engineering disciplines, and personnel security case histories. Of special relevance are the constructs of personality, morals and ethics, deception, genetic epistemology, corruption, coercion, profiling, and private and public self-consciousness. Prerequisite: SIS 315 or permission of the instructor.
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  • SP 110: Introduction to Space Flight

    0.00 - 3.00 Credits
    Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Prescott

    3 Credits A survey of the major aspects of space flight. Topics covered include the history of space flight, space shuttle operations, and present and future commercial, industrial, and military applications in space.
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  • SP 200: Planetary and Space Exploration

    0.00 - 3.00 Credits
    Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Prescott

    3 Credits This is a survey course of U.S. and international space programs. The student will be introduced to the Earth and its space environment, to methods of scientific exploration, and to spacecraft and payload criteria at the introductory physics level.
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  • SP 210: Space Transportation System

    0.00 - 3.00 Credits
    Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Prescott

    3 Credits A survey course of the space transportation system (STS) at the introductory physics level. Included are manned space flight operations, supporting systems, and the space shuttle mission, both present and future. A review of space shuttle flight profiles, guidance and navigation control, proximity operations and rendezvous, and a brief review of hypersonic orbiter aerodynamics are included. Also covered are future STS applications to space station logistical operations, commercial applications, and Department of Defense operations.
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