NSEC 4578 - Homeland Security and Terrorism

This course is designed to familiarize students with the concept of homeland security from administrative, organizational, historical, and critical perspectives. Specific emphasis will be placed on homeland security as a public safety paradigm and the implications of this paradigm on government agencies at the state and local level, overall national security, and public perception/opinion. Terrorism will be examined from a multidisciplinary perspective in this course. Risk assessment and mitigation strategies will be developed using industry techniques. 3 credits.