The mission of the Homeland & Corporate Security Program is
to provide students with knowledge of the essential components of a
proactive security environment in both a national and corporate
setting. The program examines physical and human security, safety,
and emergency management applications from a practical and
theoretical perspective. The program uses technology based
classroom learning and progressive internship opportunities to
prepare students for discipline-related graduate programs as well
as careers in national and business security.
The program prepares graduates
to:
Demonstrate knowledge of the role of the
essential components of proactive security operations.
- Describe the role of physical and human security systems in
proactive security operations.
- Describe the role of safety.
- Describe the role of emergency management.
- Explain the role of security metrics in determining the
effectiveness of proactive security operations.
Demonstrate knowledge of the partnership
model existing between governmental and private security
entities.
- Differentiate between governmental and private security
functions.
- Describe governmental statutory authority and its impact on
private security entities.
- Describe policy standardization models as they relate to both
governmental and private security entities.
- Describe communication and information sharing practices.
Identify critical issues facing homeland
and private sector security practitioners.
- Explain the role of threat assessments in critical issue
identification.
- Identify potential acts of domestic terrorism and their impact
on both national and private sector security operations.
- Describe critical issues unique to national security and the
actions you would take.
- Describe critical issues facing private sector security
operations and the actions you would take.
Conduct quality research.
- Describe the legal and ethical guidelines associated with
research.
- Describe the research process.
- Identify and explain two methods of research methodology.
Demonstrate knowledge of ethics as it
relates to proactive security operations.
- Classify policies designed to promote ethical standards in
proactive security operations.
- Differentiate between government, industry and company imposed
ethical initiatives.
- Describe situations that are ethically ambiguous and the
actions you would take.
Demonstrate understanding of the use of
technology in proactive security operations.
- Describe the role of technology in proactive security
operations.
- Describe the role of convergence as it relates technology in
proactive security operations.
- Identify and analyze limitations of technology and the actions
you would take.
Demonstrate knowledge of law as it relates
to proactive security operations.
- Describe the theories of justification and indemnification and
their impact on proactive security operations.
- Describe the role of the Patriot Act, its limitations, and what
actions you would take.
- Identify and analyze recent Supreme Court decisions that affect
proactive security operations.