Emergency Management/Homeland Security

This course examines the roots of terrorism, religious and political extremism, radicalization, terrorist structures, intelligence, combating terrorism and the evolution of emergency management relative to homeland security.

Advanced Incident Command System and Emergency Operations Center interface is designed to enhance the student's understanding of methods to effectively manage the critical interface between field incident scenes, managed under the National Incident Management System and jurisdictional emergency operations centers. The course builds upon concepts learned in FT 200 ICS/NIMS/EOC.

This course examines sustainable disaster mitigation and recovery including principles, concepts, processes, and practices currently used in the United States.

This course focuses on the philosophical and theoretical underpinnings of the emergency management profession and the principles that define effective practice.

This course will develop students comprehension of the systems utilized to prepare for, respond to, mitigate and recover from emergencies of all types and complexities. The course will cover the Incident Command System (ICS), National Incident Management System(NIMS) and Emergency Operations Center (EOC) functions in the modern emergency services.

This course prepares the student in the direct response, operations and management of critical incidents. Emphasis is placed upon the theoretical and applied models to understand and manage disasters, terrorism, and school/work place violence.

This is a capstone course which will provide the student with a thorough review of all theories, techniques, and management practices within the field of emergency management and homeland security.

This course examines issues and concepts that make up the field of transportation systems and their security from potential terrorist activity or attacks. It also examines historical transportation disasters.

This course offers an overview of critical thinking and its applications in the homeland security context. The focus is on essential elements of thought, asking the right questions, uncovering fallacies in reasoning and statistical misrepresentations. Evidence evaluation in a homeland security setting is featured with several examples interpreting real-world information. This course then examines the role of intelligence in homeland security policy and practice and how critical thinking applies to intelligence. The course analyzes the intelligence process with an emphasis on the role of the policy maker.

This course will examine the processes and challenges of fiscal administration and management within the emergency management and disaster arenas. It will also explore the processes and administration of federal grant funds.