PADM 513 Intro to Homeland Security
This course provides foundational knowledge about homeland security, including policy, organization, and legal issues in the American context. The course also provides an overview of the essential ideas that constitute the emerging discipline of homeland security. Has two central objectives: to expand the way participants think, analyze, and communicate about homeland security; and to assess knowledge in critical homeland security knowledge domains, including strategy, history, terrorism, fear management, crisis communication, conventional and unconventional threats, network leadership, weapons of mass destruction, lessons learned from other nations, civil liberties and security, intelligence and information, homeland security technology, and analytics. The course is organized around an evolving narrative about what homeland security leaders need and how the United States Department of Homeland Defense helps address those needs. The course will also provide a foundation for understanding homeland security history, the development of its policies and organizations, and current management approaches.