The Homeland Security Doctoral program prepares senior leaders of public administration, 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 cover topics ranging from terrorism, strategy, and intelligence to emergency management and critical infrastructure security issues. The program provides a rigorous educational opportunity for current and future security professionals in senior national security positions of executive departments and agencies, enhances the overall body of knowledge of homeland security disciplines by providing a unique opportunity for practitioners and academic specialists to research and explore new concepts and methods of providing security for governments and the public, and provides seniorlevel homeland security professionals the opportunity to apply theory and emerging concepts to realworld issues through innovative approaches to complex problems.

HS7000 — Homeland Security and Terrorism

This course serves as an introductory course for the study of homeland security and will provide an overview of the practical discipline including readings on the various government agencies involved in different aspects of homeland security. The course will also include an overview of the terrorist threat faced today and an examination of how that threat came into being.

HS7001 — Homeland Security Strategy

This course analyzes the relationship between national security strategy and homeland security strategy. Students will compare strategic documents for complementing and conflicting requirements. The course will lay a conceptual foundation for understanding the meanings of strategy, national interests, elements of power, and asymmetric threats to security.

HS7002 — Intelligence and Homeland Security

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. Topics will also include the composition of the U.S. intelligence community, roles of various U.S. intelligence agencies, and issues facing the U.S. intelligence community. The course provides the knowledge necessary to effectively utilize strategic intelligence in the law enforcement and public safety realm.

HS7003 — Homeland Security and Weapons of Mass Destruction

The course will provide an overview of the threat from weapons of mass destruction including nuclear, chemical, biological, and radiological traditional and improvised weapons. Students will compare the effects of weapons of mass destruction and the measures that first responders and citizens can take to isolate, identify, and protect themselves from the effects. The course will address state and non-state threats existing in the world today.

HS7004 — Local Emergency Management and Civil Preparedness

This course will analyze the operations and preparedness of local emergency management systems and their ability to respond to natural and manmade disasters. Learners will learn how the Incident Command System functions and use it to plan the use of emergency response organizations. Learners will explain and assess local community capabilities to maintain the safety of their populations and the processes through which local emergency response agencies can request assistance.

HS7005 — Disaster Management and Terrorism in Health Care Management

This course analyzes the various aspects of terrorism and emergency management and the responsibility of the healthcare administrator, manager, or leader responsible for the preparedness of his/her health service organization, employees, and staff in any disaster situation.

HS7006 — Leadership, Management, and Public Policy in Homeland Security

This course will investigate the conceptual differences in leadership and management within a public service environment such as homeland security. Learners will assess the impact of public policy decisions such as the Patriot Act and how they affect the relationships among the three branches of government. Learners will explore the competing requirements of assuring security while maintaining civil liberties in the face of terrorism.

HS7007 — Intelligence and Law Enforcement Integration in Homeland Security

This course will take a critical look at the integration of intelligence operations and law enforcement in the realm of homeland security. Learners will compare and contrast the roles of intelligence and law enforcement agencies and assess their abilities to perform their assigned missions as they relate to homeland security. Learners will assess the success or failure of efforts to integrate intelligence and law enforcement activities.

HS7009 — The Economics of Homeland Security

This course identifies and examines the process and effectiveness of the allocation of finite homeland security resources. This course is meant to complement the NCU curriculum and provide the manager a resources view of solving homeland security issues and is divided into three parts. The first part will establish the homeland security economics baseline pre-9/11 and compare and contrast with other economies with similar threats. The second part of the course will focus on post-9/11 spending. In this section we will examine the security issues and discuss government and industry responses. In the last part of the course we will discuss the decision-making process and suggest future focus areas.

HS7010 — Aviation and Ground Transportation Security

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 aviation and ground transportation networks with regard to the security demands now placed on them. 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. The course will include a review of emerging technology in the field of transportation security.

HS7011 — Resiliency: The Center of Gravity of Homeland Security

Resiliency is the center of piece of Homeland Security during the modern era, not only in the United States but throughout the world. How a country responses to Natural and Man-made Disasters, ensures an adequate infrastructure vulnerabilities and develops/maintains an Emergency Response system is indicative of its overall resilience – which in the words of Prussian Strategist Von Clausewitz is its “Center of Gravity”. Council on Foreign Affairs author Dr. Stephen Flynn notes in the case of the United States, “Bridges are outfitted with the civil engineering equivalent of a diaper.” Public Works departments construct “temporary” patches for dams that could be overwhelmed while our power system routinely gets overwhelmed in the heat of the August sun. This course will examine the central tenants of resiliency, use case studies and recent national “report cards” to examine shortcoming.

HS7012 — Fear and Terrorism

A Learner of homeland security must understand as a foundational issue the relationship between fear and terrorism. Various groups since the dawn of terrorist actions in the 17th century have used fear to gain their objectives, regardless of motivation. This course will explore the methods used by terrorists to instill fear, including various types of weapons of mass destruction. This course will also explore the psychological effect of fear on the populace. The course will consider cultural issues, effects on daily routines, the effect the media plays, and the evaluation of consequence, especially involving chemical, biological, and radiological weapons of mass destruction.

HS7020 — Security of the Maritime Transportation System

The asymmetric threat posed by maritime terrorism has become an increasing concern to security experts throughout the world. The attacks on USS COLE and M/V LIMBURG are just two examples of the successful exploitation of this key economic modality. HS 8020 explores the world of maritime terrorism using the Total Security Management Framework, for fixed and in-transit assets. The course will be dedicated to analyzing the different risk issues, key challenges including Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) carriers and both the national and international strategies including the International Maritime Organization's International Ship and Port Security (ISPS) Code.