The Homeland Security program is designed to prepare senior management of law enforcement, public safety, and emergency medical care and disaster preparedness agencies for positions of executive leadership in the general field of homeland security. Courses will span the spectrum of management, budgetary rules, personnel and critical issues relating to crisis management and terrorism.

HS5000 - Terrorism and Countermeasures/Executive Protection

Analyzes the conceptual and theoretical framework of modern and historical terrorism in order to understand the roots of the problem. Explores various mechanisms of response to the future use of weapons of mass destruction as well as the executive protection of senior transportation and government management officials. Although terrorism has been a known phenomenon for centuries, it has become the most frequent form of conflict in the late 20th century. Friedrich Nietzsche cautioned that, “Stare not into the Abyss, lest the Abyss stare back to you.” The intelligence and law enforcement community must learn to cooperate with each other and refocus on the “war on terrorism.”

HS5001 - Homeland Security Transportation

The current threats to the transportation industry are prolific and sometimes seemingly overwhelming. Government, private industry and operators must coordinate the free flow of goods within the global market in a safe and seamless manner in order to be profitable. This course will closely examine the industry from an historical perspective and then analyze the interaction necessary to create adequate security inside the vast network of intermodal operations. The course explores the actual threat to each industry and concentrates on appropriate counter terrorism measures within each component from a domestic and global perspective. Regulatory agencies, both domestic and international will be reviewed in conjunction with international treaties, ICAO and IMO requirements and other applicable legislation. The course will include a review of emerging technology in the field of transportation security.

HS5002 - International Crime and Terrorism

Although global crime and terrorism have been known phenomenon for centuries, they have become unique types of conflict in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Success in preventing nuclear warfare and in curbing the outbreak of most conventional war has resulted in many forms of low intensity violence, a significant feature of which is overt terrorism and organized crime, specifically drug and human trafficking. Additionally, ideological hardening, ethnic militancy, and religious revivalism have fueled terrorist ambitions. Broadly speaking, there are three types of terrorism, classified on the basis of actors. The course will address all three types: domestic U.S., international or group directed, and state sponsored, and how law enforcement can respond to them Additionally, the global drug and human trafficking economy, intermixed with it’s associated crime requirements (i.e. money laundering, arms deals etc.) affects the whole world. The central thrust of this course is to examine how and why global crime and terrorism have emerged; what are their implications for political and military institutions; what capabilities and limitations bear on combating this threat, and what the future portends for national societies and global stability. The combined efforts of local State and national law enforcement, supplemented by the military are crucial to these goals.

HS5003 - Homeland Security Risk Management

Designed to provide learners with a comprehensive introduction to the major issues essential for understanding homeland security and its foundation in all-hazard emergency management. Examines the role of public health, environmental protection and the private sector in homeland security. Other topics include the U.S. Patriot Act and the challenge of balancing security with civil liberties; cyberterrorism and cybersecurity; the role of the private sector in protecting communities; and emerging trends in homeland security.

HS5004 - Computer Security, Forensics and Cyberterrorism

Explores the importance of computer security and the threat that international terrorism poses to it. Examines how computer forensics is used to discover computer related evidence in criminal and civil litigation and to identify security risks and weaknesses by government agencies and Fortune 1000 corporations. Examines how computer forensics plays an important role in business risk management and computer incident responses.

HS5005 - Strategy and Intelligence

The course includes descriptions of the varied ways strategic intelligence is used by world leaders to shape policy and its effect on world events. Methods of intelligence collection, analysis, and dissemination as well as aspects of counterintelligence will be among the issues examined and discussed. The course provides the knowledge necessary to effectively utilize strategic intelligence in the law enforcement and public safety realm.

HS6010 - Homeland Security Research Project

This course requires the learner to conduct a research study in an area of Homeland Security and to document the results in a formal project report.

HS6020 - Maritime Terrorism

This course examines the different aspects, attractiveness, consequences, and capabilities, of the maritime asymmetric threat from Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) and Liquid Propane Gas (LPG), to piracy, divers, swarm attacks, containers, as weapons of mass destruction, and rogue vessels. The course will explore the primary national and international strategies that shape the response to maritime terrorism. The asymmetric threat posed by terrorists is a challenge faced by security and law enforcement organizations throughout the world. One of the greatest vulnerabilities contained within this threat resides in the maritime domain. often referred to as "the Achilles heel of global trade” the modern, “just in time” supply system, used by manufacturers and retailers alike, underscore the need to maintain the security of the world’s Maritime Transportation System (MTS).