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4.00 Credits
Credits: 4 Prerequisite: none This course provides students with a general overview of professional concepts and skills that can be found on a national certification exam. Resume writing and career search methods are also discussed.
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4.00 Credits
Credits: 4 Prerequisite: none This course provides an overview of the essential ideas that constitute the emerging discipline of homeland security. It has two central objectives: to expand the way participants think, analyze and communicate about homeland security; and to assess knowledge in critical homeland security knowledge domains: including strategy, history, terrorism, fear management, crisis communication, conventional and unconventional threats, network leadership, weapons of mass destruction, lessons learned from other nations, civil liberties and security, intelligence and information, homeland security technology, and analytics.
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4.00 Credits
Credits: 4 Prerequisite: none The purpose of this course is to provide an introduction to the operational and organizational dynamics of terrorism. It considers those who act as individuals, in small groups or in large organizations; it considers indigenous actors as well as those who come to the United States to raise money, recruit or commit their acts of violence. In every instance, its focus is on violent clandestine activity that, whatever its motivation, has a political purpose or effect. The course addresses such specific topics as suicide terrorism, the role of the media, innovation and technology acquisition, the decline of terrorism and ways of measuring the effect of counterterrorism policies and strategies. The course also looks briefly at sabotage. By the end of the course, students should be able to design effective measures for countering and responding to terrorism based on an understanding of its organizational and operational dynamics.
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4.00 Credits
Credits: 4 Prerequisite: none In today's Information Age, Homeland Security (HLS) professionals and the agencies they lead are more dependent than ever on technology and information-sharing to strengthen national preparedness. The need to share information through the use of interoperable technologies and to collect and synthesize data in real time has become critical to our national security. This course provides HLS professionals with the requisite knowledge to be able to leverage technology to prevent, protect against, respond to, and recover from terrorist and natural-born incidents. It also provides an in-depth understanding of: inspection, detection, and surveillance technologies; information sharing and knowledge management systems; and communication systems. Students explore and analyze management challenges currently facing HLS professionals, such as: Information Assurance; voice, data and sensor interoperability; and technology implementation and acceptance. This knowledge will facilitate HLS professionals to become more effective technology consumers and help them to recognize opportunities where the application of technology solutions can provide a strategic advantage. The ultimate objective of the course is to enable HLS professionals to effectively evaluate, select, and implement technology to better strengthen capability-specific national priorities.
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4.00 Credits
Credits: 4 Prerequisite: none The War on Terror has focused the nation's attention on homeland security. This course examines key questions and issues facing the U.S. intelligence community and its role in homeland security and homeland defense. Students will have the opportunity to fully address policy, organizational and substantive issues regarding homeland intelligence support. Course reference materials will provide an overview of diverse intelligence disciplines and how the intelligence community operates. Course emphasis will be on issues affecting policy, oversight, and intelligence support to homeland defense/security and national decision-making. The 2004 Intelligence Reform and Prevention of Terrorism Act is addressed and the course is shaped to focus on homeland intelligence support issues at the State/Local/Tribal levels.
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4.00 Credits
Credits: 4 Prerequisite: none Critical Infrastructure protection (CIP) is one of the cornerstones of homeland security. HSPD-7 lists 17 critical infrastructure and key resource sectors: Agriculture and Food, Banking and Finance, Chemical, Commercial Facilities, Communications, Dams, Defense Industrial Base, Emergency Services, Energy, Government Facilities, Information Technology, National Monuments and Icons, Nuclear Reactors, Materials and Waste, Postal and Shipping, Public Health and Healthcare, Transportation Systems, and Water. The course begins with an overview of risk, its definition and application to critical infrastructures as it relates to the National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP). We then investigate measures, tool, and techniques for CIP assessment. The course develops a network theory of vulnerability analysis and risk assessment called Model-Based Risk Assessment (MBRA) used to extract the critical nodes from each sector, model the nodes' vulnerabilities by representing them in the form of a fault-tree, and then applying fault and financial risk reduction techniques to derive the optimal strategy for protection of each sector. The sectors are studied in detail in order to learn how they are structured, how regulatory policy influences protection strategies, and how to identify specific vulnerabilities inherent to each sector and its components. At the completion of the course, students will be able to apply CIP techniques (MBRA and others) to any critical infrastructure within their multi-jurisdictional region, and derive optimal strategies and draft policies for prevention of future terrorist attacks or natural disasters.
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4.00 Credits
Credits: 4 Prerequisite: none The purpose of this course is to provide participants with an insight into the structural, conceptual and intellectual underpinnings and implications of the homeland security project. Looking at a wide range of topics and problems, the course seeks to stimulate a comprehensive discussion of how homeland security professionals and the general public think about homeland security; whether/why there may be significant differences in professional and public perceptions of homeland security; and how those differences constrain/leverage various elements of the homeland security effort. By incorporating a selection of key texts in Western political and social thought alongside current topical writings, the course seeks to equip participants with a deeper understanding of the prevailing discourse and its impact on the homeland security project.
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4.00 Credits
Credits: 4 Prerequisite: none This course serves as an introduction for homeland security professionals to terrorism as a psychological phenomenon. Government agencies involved in homeland security need to understand the psychological consequences of mass-casualty terrorist attacks and other disasters. This course provides a broad overview of psychological effects of terrorism; the status of and fallacies related to the interventions applied to victims of terrorism and the generalized fear and anxiety experienced by the public at large; current government strategies used to disseminate information to terrorist groups; psychological phenomena related to media coverage of terrorism; misconceptions and inaccuracies about the socio-political and religious motivations of terrorist groups; "profiling" and the typical psychological and cultural makeup of modern terrorists; and the social and cultural psychology of public conceptions of terrorists and acts of terror.
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6.00 Credits
Credits: 6 Prerequisites: none This course focuses on acquiring, utilizing, and developing human resources. It is an overview of common personnel activities recruitment, selection, compensation, productivity, and satisfaction. Additionally, employee diversity, ethical issues, and equal employment opportunity will be discussed.
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4.00 Credits
Credits: 4 Prerequisite: none This course discusses the principles, policies, and practices of human resource management. The role of managing and enhancing the productivity and potential of the human resources of the business organization is the primary focus of the course.
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