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3.00 Credits
Continuous enrollment required while work on dissertation continues.
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3.00 Credits
CRIJ 3304 Advanced Concepts in Homeland Security (3-0)
An overview of current concepts that will help students understand Homeland Security issues as the strategic level. This course will also examine the conceptual framework of other courses that will be covered in the Homeland Security Concentration. Prerequisite: CRIJ 1301 with a grade of ?C? or better.
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3.00 Credits
CRIJ 3305 Homeland Security and Border Protection (3-0)
An overview of steps taken by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection to increase security across our borders. These actions and initiatives include a broad range of strategies and defenses that CBP deploys in its anti-terror mission. CBP?s protective measures include intensified activities in the areas of passenger processing, cargo targeting and inspection, non-intrusive technology inspections, as well as a number of initiatives to increase security along the U.S.-Mexico border. Prerequisite: CRIJ 1301 with a grade of ?C? or better.
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3.00 Credits
CRIJ 3307 Terrorism and Counter Terrorism (3-0)
An examination of terrorism using a criminological framework for studying terrorist groups and individuals, terrorist origins, goals, dynamics, ideologies, counter-terrorism, and homeland security. Work in this course involves examination of the structure and dynamics of terrorism in America, Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, Asia, and Africa. Terrorist weapons, strategies and tactics, the hot spots from which they evolve, the ways they operate and receive funding, their use of the media, and theories of counterterrorism. Prerequisite: CRIJ 1301 with a grade of ?C? or better.
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3.00 Credits
CRIJ 4302 Cyber Terrorism (3-0)
In addition to the history of computer and Internet crime, this course addresses how computers have become tools and targets of criminal activity and how they represent national security threats. The topics covered include hardware and software network components, vulnerable infrastructures and readiness for cyber terrorism. Prerequisite: CRIJ 1301 with a grade of ?C? or better.
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3.00 Credits
CRIJ 4304 Critical Infrastructure Protection (3-0)
Students are introduced to the Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) proactive activities for protecting critical infrastructures: the people, physical assets, and communication/cyber systems that are indispensably necessary for national security, economic stability, and public safety. CIP methods and resources deter or mitigate attacks against critical infrastructures caused by people (e.g., terrorists, other criminals, hackers, etc.), by nature (e.g., hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, etc.) and by HazMat accidents involving nuclear, radiological, biological, or chemical substances (i.e., all hazards). Prerequisite: CRIJ 1301 with a grade of ?C? or better.
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3.00 Credits
CRIJ 4306 Theories and Psychology of Terrorism (3-0)
This course presents the fundamental concepts, theories, and background on various forms of terrorism, as well as the strengths and weaknesses of terrorism typologies. Political, religious, and cultural terrorism will be examined, as well as their causes. Learning theory, psychodynamic theory, and other psychological constructs will be considered for their salience in helping to reach an understanding of terrorism from a psychological perspective. Prerequisite: CRIJ 1301 with a grade of ?C? or better.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed for students who are not creative writing majors or minors but who are nonetheless interested in taking a creative writing course. Conducted as a workshop, the class is designed to introduce students to the fundamentals of writing poetry with the focus on formal techniques such as constructing a poetic voice, theories of line breaks, and the various linguistic and rhethorical strategies available to the writer.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed for students who are not creative writing majors or minors but who are nonetheless interested in taking a creative writing course. Conducted as a workshop, the class is designed to introduce students to the fundamentals of writing fiction. The central focus will be on the various traditions of ?the short story? and the formal techniques writers employ when creating characters, plots, dialogues, and unnamed narrators.
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3.00 Credits
Study of the literary devices, techniques, and aesthetic ideas that inform the writing of poetry and narrative fiction. Required for creative writing majors and minors.
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