HSM Homeland Security Management Courses at Global Campus

This course is a broad overview of homeland security in the United States. Areas of study include the organizational structure of the Department of Homeland Security as well as the principals, foundations, and doctrines surrounding homeland security. Students examine both historical and current issues related to the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, current policies of the Department, and potential career paths within the department.

HSM201 Homeland Security Missions and Current Issues takes a broad approach to examining the scope of threats to the safety and security of the United States, both natural and man-made, as well as current issues through the lens of the mission and various goals of the Department of Homeland Security.

This course is a broad overview of Homeland Security from its emergence in America’s first century to the 9/11 attacks. Areas of study include the rise of modern terrorism, domestic terrorism, cyberterrorism, Homeland Security organization, strategies, programs and principles, emergency management, the media, and the issues of civil liberties.

This course provides a foundation of classical ethical theories and explores the ethical framework and critical decision–making models likely to be used in Homeland Security and Emergency Management environments.  Students will be challenged to analyze the ethical considerations for emergency response, civil rights, local government powers, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Department of Homeland Security, weapons of mass destruction, domestic and international anti-terrorism efforts. Students will also examine important civil and human rights concerns generated by security needs and assess how to balance the need for security with personal privacy, cybersecurity, and commerce.

This course will provide students with the skills to develop a comprehensive plan for risk analysis, threat assessment, staffing an emergency operations center, coordinating with supporting agencies, and the creation of a continuing testing program. Analysis of historical incidents as well as realistic scenarios are used to teach students how to plan for natural disasters as well as terrorism and other emergencies at the federal, state and local levels. This course is designed to provide students with the ability to evaluate an emergency incident, determine its scope, understand the function of the first responders, learn the communication procedures necessary to alert the appropriate agencies, and understand how first responders are dispatched. Students will create a recovery plan for response to large scale incidents.

This course is designed to provide students with the ability to evaluate an emergency incident, determine its scope, understand the function of the first responders, learn the communication procedures necessary to alert the appropriate agencies, and understand how first responders are dispatched. Students will create a recovery plan for response to large-scale terrorist incidents.

This course examines the ways revolution and terrorism has shaped the twenty-first century from an interdisciplinary perspective drawing on history, philosophy, and sociology. Emphasis is on the ideas and socio-historical forces that have produced revolutions. Equivalent to LIB 323.

This course explores disaster mitigation and recovery. Students will explore hazard mitigation and disaster recovery as distinct phases of emergency management and as intertwined processes. The course will also highlight distinctions between the two emergency management phases at both the national and local levels.
 

This course examines modern terrorism including specifics on the typologies and anatomy of terrorist operations. Emphasis is on the present and future of terrorism and the challenges facing the homeland security communities combating it. Students in this course also analyze counterterrorism policies, strategies, and operations. The course includes an overview of the intelligence community and the intelligence cycle within the context of homeland security and counterterrorism efforts.
 

This course provides for analysis of some of the major types of security. Students will explore the concept of human security, including facets and applications. Students will also examine some environmental threats and challenges associated with environmental security. Cybersecurity threats and vulnerabilities will also be analyzed with a particular focus on critical infrastructure systems.