Upon completion of this certificate students will be able to:

• Predict the need to conduct and/or contract for research related to high probability Chemical Biological, Radiological, Nuclear or Energetic (CBRNE) events and their consequences in any community of interest.
• Design and modify plans and programs at federal, state, and/or local levels to reflect the evolving strategic policy issues associated with a statutory and presidential direction for homeland security
• Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of public, private and military efforts to reduce, patterned and non-patterned "warfare" by overt and covert means of both nation states and transnational terrorist groups.

NS510 / HLS 501- Homeland Defense
DM576 / EDM 565 - Consequence Management: Terrorism Preparation & Response
EM632 / HCM 605 - Quarantine
IN547 / INT 663 - Intelligence and Homeland Security 
LC537 / INT 661- Forecasting Terrorism