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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This graduate course focuses on the impact of globalization on crime and border security. Special emphasis will be placed on human, drug, and arms trafficking along the U.S.-Mexico border, but will also provide comparative examples from border regions around the world. The role of drug cartels, criminal gangs, and corruption will be addressed. Attention will also be given to the U.S.-Canadian border. Other serious crime such as fraud, identity theft, and cybercrime will be explored. This course will also review current and past strategies for maintaining border security and limiting the flow of criminal activity into the United States. Prerequisite: Departmental approval.
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3.00 Credits
This graduate course focuses on the fundamental concepts involved in preparing for and managing the response to a catastrophic emergency event such as a fire, earthquake, terrorist act, biological materials release, hazardous material spill, weather-related disaster, or internal sabotage. Heavy emphasis is placed on interagency communication and coordination in emergency events. The course outlines the practical steps needed to develop an effective emergency response plan, and outlines how such a plan should be organized and executed. Prerequisite: Departmental approval.
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of skills, values, and behaviors that contribute to success within the profession. Skills to be developed may include professional report writing, presentations, time management, project management, and others. Discussions of values and behaviors may include such matters as ethics and professionalism among others. Prerequisite: Departmental approval.
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3.00 Credits
This graduate course focuses on policy responses to bioterrorism and emerging public health threats such as pandemic flu. Topics include the science of biological weapons and threats, the history of bioterrorism and weaponization, verification and monitoring, scenario building, national security decision-making as it pertains to biothreats, and public health policy and infrastructure. Prerequisite: Departmental approval.
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3.00 Credits
This graduate course examines the 11 major categories of the nation?s critical infrastructure as outlined by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security with a particular emphasis on their dimensions, operational responsibility, and unique vulnerabilities. Strategies for critical infrastructure protection will be addressed as will the means for establishing priorities for protecting key infrastructure assets. Prerequisite: Departmental approval.
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of innovation, problem solving, and creativity as applied in the public sector. This course is intended to provide an overview to assist in developing creative problem solving, innovation, and leadership skills relevant to public management.
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3.00 Credits
This course is offered through the UT Online Consortium.
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3.00 Credits
This course is offered through UT Telecampus.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an interdisciplinary examination of ethical issues in the biological and health sciences, combining methodologies from both philosophy and the natural sciences. It introduces students to the practice of applying ethical reasoning to issues arising in the fields of biomedicine, biotechnology, and clinical health. Although special focus is given to interpersonal issues and to research ethics in the sciences, examinations of specific issues in various fields such as reproductive and genetic law, end of life problems, health care justice, cloning, and eugenics could also be regularly included.
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3.00 Credits
The course is designed for students in pre-law and students in the social sciences as well as students of philosophy to promote their understanding of the society in which they live and the justification for the laws that inform society. Restricted to Graduate students.
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