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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on processes, procedures, and available resources in responding to and guiding recovery from disaster events. Topics covered include planning, leadership, technology, information gathering, coordination, communication, and other issues relating to response and recovery from disaster and terrorism scenarios.
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3.00 Credits
Immigration and Worldwide Border Security examines the complexities and intersectionality of geographic, political, social, economic, and cultural borders between nations and explores how changes with one affects others. The course focuses on national sovereignty and attempts to secure national borders through the enactment of laws and resource allocations, together with the conflicts that can emerge between nations as people attempt to move across borders. It analyzes current and historical political, economic, and policy issues between nations, using the United States, Mexico, and European refugee movements, as case studies. The course will also explore the various policy and operational strategies used for border security, and their impact both economically and culturally. Topics will cover threats to national security, migration issues, transnational crime, the use of technology in securing borders, and border protection from a historical and current perspective.
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3.00 Credits
Homeland Security Capstone provides engagement in a student-centered, content-related learning experience that serves as a summary and synthesis of courses in a student's undergraduate academic career. Students select an area of interest related to their academic studies and engage in an activity leading to a research project or applied project reflective of comprehensive knowledge gained in undergraduate studies and demonstrate their knowledge of the outcomes of the Bachelor of Arts degree. The course culminates with a Capstone paper.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the phenomenon of terrorism as it relates to the United States as well as to American interests in other countries, primarily in the time period from the Cold War to the present. The attacks on the United States on Sept. 11, 2001, and the subsequent adoption of a formal U.S. Department of Homeland Security will be examined in the context of the global terrorist threat and the more general concept of homeland security. Emphasis is on the identification and understanding of appropriate definitions and concepts so that students may critically evaluate the threats present and the range of responses available in our democratic society. Appropriate historical foundations, as well as essential components of a mechanism for homeland security, will be presented. Other key topics include the relationship between homeland security and preparation; terrorism response and recovery mechanisms; and goals, objectives, and strategies. The importance of coordinating various plans and strategies among local, state, and federal government response organizations will be stressed.
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3.00 Credits
This course will investigate a wide range of natural disasters and develop appropriate plans for mitigating resulting problems. Natural disasters include a variety of events from earthquakes, tornadoes, floods, and fires to the outbreak of disease and may themselves trigger secondary disaster situations such as chemical spills, nuclear incidents, and power outages. This course focuses on the impacts of disasters on security, critical resources, and key infrastructure.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides a broad, up-to-date, multidisciplinary overview of homeland security as a contemporary subject of interest and inquiry. Issues of public policy, public administration, law, emergency management, intelligence, border and infrastructure security, public safety, and the social/behavioral impacts of terrorism and homeland security will be considered.
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine the development of various situations that have evolved since the day of the terrorists' attacks, on New York City and Washington, D.C., on Sept. 11, 2001. Since that day, the events which transpired have been seen to have made many Americans feel more vulnerable than ever before. After the events of that day, the United States Congress quickly enacted the USA PATRIOT Act, which permitted a number of extraordinary and unprecedented changes to civil liberties without judicial oversight. This course will examine the USA PATRIOT Act, along with the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, which were initiated by the events of 9/11. This course will allow students the opportunity to examine and understand why the government and the public began to question and scrutinize the country's intelligence mechanisms, and national security structure and procedures. During this course there will an opportunity to examine the creation, development, and organizational structure of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). As part of the examination of DHS, there will be opportunities to also examine entities such as the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA), which was established after 9/11. This course will also examine other developments including the detention and torture of ""enemy combatants"" in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and consider whether the nation's security needs justify the consequent restrictions on our freedoms.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores best practices for mitigating the adverse psychological and social impacts of disaster. The course discusses types of disasters, the way trauma typically affects victims, the means for assessing trauma after a disaster, the importance of early intervention during the response phase, and approaches suitable for the longer recovery phase of disaster. This course uses current government and law enforcement sources to discuss specific disasters from the last two decades, both acts of terrorism and natural occurrences.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines statutory, constitutional, military, and international legal principles and their relation to the design and implementation of national and international strategies related to homeland security in both the domestic and global arenas. Emphasis will be on legal and due process actions and the legality of those actions in domestic, military, and international settings. There will be an intense focus on the exposure, explanation, and understanding of the existing domestic and international laws and treaties. This course will provide the student with exposure to a multitude of issues in the area of homeland security by examining the basic concept of investigating and prosecuting terrorism and its affect both domestically and internationally. The method of study and exposure to these topics is designed to facilitate the student in the development of the ability to identify, understand, and perform critical thinking and written assessment of concepts directly relating to legal and due process issues relating to terrorism and homeland security challenges.
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3.00 Credits
This course acquaints students with several concepts and practices that are necessary for collecting, analyzing, and evaluating intelligence and managing the intelligence as a function. It also explores the influence of intelligence on shaping homeland security executive decision making at the international, federal, state, and local levels. This course examines the structures, roles, and interactions of the foreign and domestic intelligence communities, the intelligence gathering and analysis capabilities of criminal justice and private sector entities, and the use of intelligence processes to support homeland security investigations, planning, and policy formulation. Through the study of current and past homeland security events, students in this course will develop an understanding of the intelligence tradecraft, analytic, and research skills required for intelligence work. This course also explores the ethical, Constitutional, and civil liberties issues associated with the collection of information by homeland security agencies. Also examined are topics related to assessing the reliability and validity of information, intelligence sharing, and covert and counterintelligence operations of domestic and international intelligence agencies.
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