Homeland Security Certificate
(18 semester hours)

Objectives

• Identify the key challenges for the 21st century facing not only US homeland security strategy, but also those of other major actors that might become “peer competitors.
• Discriminate between valuable sources of information, and those sources that are questionable.
• Differentiate between homeland security and homeland defense.
• Describe the national intelligence apparatus, including FBI, CIA, NSA of the U.S.
•  Assess proposals for improvement in the state of our homeland security.

IR310 / HLS 101 - Homeland Defense
IR311 / HLS 104  - Chemical and Biological Defense
IS348 / INT 462 - Forecasting Terrorism
IS349 / HLS 320 - Intelligence and Homeland Security
MM325 / EDM 340 - Consequence Management: Terrorism Preparation & Response
SS489 / HLS 301 - Homeland Security Organization