NS3180 Introduction to Homeland Security

Offered through the Center for Homeland Defense and Security. This course provides an overview of the essential ideas that constitute the emerging discipline of homeland security. It 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. Prerequisites: None.

Lecture Hours

4

Lab Hours

0

Course Learning Outcomes

• Demonstrate the ability to analyze, critique, and synthesize the information and concepts covered in the readings.
• Demonstrate the ability to provide evidence and reasons to support rigorous analysis and positions.
• Demonstrate the ability to create new ideas, connections, and understandings of current and future homeland security issues.
• Demonstrate the ability to effectively communicate arguments and evidence in multiple formats.
• Demonstrate the ability to use multiple modes of inquiry to encourage compatible and competing views in dialogue about current and future homeland security issues.
• Demonstrate listening skills by integrating ideas of others with one’s own in order to synthesize new ideas, alternatives, or solutions.
• Ask highly relevant questions that advance the discussion and evoke deeper responses from others.
• Demonstrate an ability to develop a learning agenda relevant to one’s professional educational needs.