Online MS in Homeland Security and Emergency Management Curriculum

Introduction to the field of homeland security and emergency management with a focus on how the Department of Homeland Security and Federal Emergency Management Agency identify, prepare for, respond to, and recover from threat, terrorist attack, and technological and natural disasters. 

Study of the collection, analysis and dissemination of intelligence in Homeland Security and Emergency Management

Examines preparedness, response, mitigation and recovery aspects of disasters and emergencies. 

This course examines terrorists to find out what makes them do what they do. It focuses on examining psychological issues that cause them to act. The course examines recruitment. 

Research theory and methodology in the social sciences including research design, conceptual models, sampling techniques, and development of individual research papers. May be offered concurrently with JUST 4700.

Culminating course in homeland security. Provides participants the opportunity to expand abilities to enact knowledge and technical learning acquired in the course leading up to the capstone course. Students will have writing assignments, such as elopement of a concept paper for practical and applied implementation and research topics. 

This course explores how a “networked” world has bred new crimes and new responses; investigates how information and communication technology has become a tool, target, and place of criminal activity and security threats. The course will discuss mechanisms of response and white-collar crime. 

This course explores weapons of mass destruction (WMD) that are relevant to HLS. The course covers chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive devices. Technologies for detection and identification are explored. Approaches to protecting against WMD are examined.

This course explores the three major religions of the world: Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, and their association with war and terrorism. Emphasis will be on the radical sects of all three religions. Emphasis on current conflicts and its relationship to homeland security.

Prove students with an introduction to Fusion Center operations, specifically intelligence-sharing organizations that have been created in 50 states following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. This course also includes a review of the 9/ Commission findings and the intelligence reorganization.

Examines the media’s role in disaster communications, including the importance of social media and technology in disseminating warnings and crucial information for disaster mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery.

Explores group behavior in times of crises, specifically focusing on protests, riots, and panic. Special attention will be given to motivations, social and legal consequences, and the use of social media in disseminating information.

Provides an overview of the social dimensions of disasters, including how social dynamics, social vulnerability, and social structure affects communication mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery.

Provides an overview of the explanations, consequences, enforcement, a nd prevention of human trafficking, which is defined by the United Nations as the “recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, or receipt of persons by improper means (such as force, abduction, fraud, or coercion) for an improper purpose including forced labor or sexual exploitation

Detailed study of effective communication in justice and public safety. Includes analysis and synthesis of interoffice communications, analysis of research, and development of projects and presentation of social science research.
Prerequisite: JUST 6602

Provides an examination of the major criminological schools of thought as well as the prominent theorists within each school; theories are presented that examine criminal motivation and the application of criminal law; additionally, the implicit theoretical assumptions regarding the punishment of offenders are examined.

Advanced independent reading and/or research in selected areas of Homeland Security and Emergency Management.