Course Name: Critical National Infrastructures

Course Description: Examines America's critical infrastructures and their relationships to one-another, and issues pertaining to safeguarding and managing these infrastructures under serious threat. Analyzes key asset identification, threat and vulnerability, and studies technologies for their ability to support planning, mitigation, response, recovery, and prediction.

Pre-requisites: Graduate Standing; Admission to the Integrated Homeland Security management program or approval of program director

book information:
Counterterrorism Handbook: Tactics…, 3rd edition
ISBN# 0849330238      978-0849330230

Pocket Partner, 4th edition
ISBN# 1885071558      978-1885071552

Homeland Security, 2005
ISBN# 007144064-X      978-0071440646

Course Name: Emergency Communication and Management

Course Description: Issues in communication in times of emergency, including communication within and between infrastructures, communication with the public, urgent message communication, and communication hierarchy and protocols in emergency situations.

Pre-requisites:Graduate Standing; Admission to the Integrated Homeland Security management program or approval of program director

book information:
Public Relations Practices, 7th edition
ISBN# 0132341360 978-0132341363

Crisis Management, 2000
ISBN# 0595090796      978-0595090792

You’d Better Have a Hose If You Want to Put out the Fire, 2001
ISBN# 096745350X      978-0967453507

On Deadline: Managing Media Relations, 4th edition
ISBN# 157766440X      978-1577664406

Course Name:Information System Security

Course Description:This course focuses on information systems security threats, technologies and business requirements. Emphasis is placed on the human and technological aspects of IT security problems and issues relevant to the risks in which information systems are exposed and methods of dealing with such risks.

Pre-requisites:Graduate Standing; Not open to students who have taken COSC 644.

book information:
Principles of Information Security, 3rd edition
ISBN# 1423901770      978-1423901778

Course Name:Health System Preparedness

Course Description:Examines the health related capacities and needs of homeland security infrastructures and systems, health response teams and communities at the local, regional, and national levels.

Pre-requisites:Graduate Standing; Open to IHSM-MS majors only or department consent.

book information:
Triage for Civil Support, 2004
ISBN# 0833036610      978-0833036612

Public Health Management of Disasters, 2nd edition
ISBN# 0875530451      978-0875530451

Terrorism and Disaster Management, 2004
ISBN # 1567932185      978-1567932188

Course Name:US Homeland Security Policy

Course Description:U.S. homeland security policy examines the concept of U.S. homeland security in the context of recent history. It provides an overview of the nature of threats and major vulnerabilities that are the focus of homeland security efforts. The course surveys the principal actors engaged in the homeland security enterprise. It describes the evalution of institutions, network, and organizational relationships that are emerging to accomplish the various homeland security missions and functions. The course analyzes current homeland security policy issues and discusses the future of the homeland security enterprise.

Pre-requisites:Graduate Standing, Major Standing.

book information:
Homeland Security and Terrorism, 1st edition
ISBN# 0071452826      978-0071452823

Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy, 4th edition
ISBN# 0872896005      978-0872896000

Course Name:Planning, Prevention, and Management of Risk

Course Description:Explores technology and management of holistic information security and risk with respect to U.S. Homeland Security and specific technologies and techniques used by terrorists, hackers, crackers, spies, and thieves.

Pre-requisites:Graduate Standing; Admission to the Integrated Homeland Security management program or approval of program director

book information:
Critical Infrastructure Protection in Homeland Security, 2006 ISBN# 0471786284      978-0471786283

Course Name:Team Building & Leadership Skills

Course Description:Psychological and organizational aspects of group dynamics and work teams. Application of theory to actual teams in the workplace with respect to U.S. Homeland Security and specific case analysis/team solutions.

Pre-requisites:Graduate Standing; Admission to the Integrated Homeland Security management program or approval of program director

book information:
Creativity in Virtual Teams, 2004
ISBN# 0787971146      978-0787971144

Course Name:Information Systems Vulnerability and Risk Analysis

Course Description:This course provides an overview of security issues in distributed information systems including distributed database systems, financial systems, application software, operating systems, networks, and ways to make software systems more secure.
Not open to those who have taken AIT 612

Pre-requisites:

book information:
Security in Computing, 4th edition
ISBN# 0132390779      978-0132390774

Course Name:Application Software Security

Course Description:Security concepts in developing software applications. This course discusses design principles for secure software development, and some of the security issues in current programming and scripting languages, database systems and Web servers. Prerequisite AIT612 or IHSM 621.

Pre-requisites:Graduate Standing; This course is not open to students who have taken COSC 647.

book information:
Software Security: Building Security In, 2006
ISBN# 0321356705      978-0321356703

Course Name:Mental Health Emergency Preparedness and Response

Course Description:Incorporating emergency mental health principles, strategies, and concepts into overall emergency management planning; basic concepts of disaster and terrorism mental health response, at the individual, group, organizational, and community level. Case studies and course projects will be used to show practical applications.

Pre-requisites:Graduate standing and major standing.

book information:
No textbook

Course Name:Bioterrorism/Public Health Emergency Preparedness

Course Description:This course addresses the need for all health profession students to be prepared in case of a biological, chemical, radiation, nuclear or other public health emergency event. The federal government and Health and Human Services has established the following four major goals which are addressed in each of the eight course modules presented in this web-based course. The overall goal is that health profession students will be better prepared to: 1) recognize indications of a terrorist event or other public health emergency; 2) effectively meet the health care needs of patients, especially the most vulnerable; 3) effectively participate in a coordinated multidisciplinary response, and 4) rapidly alert the appropriate emergency public health system.

Pre-requisites:Graduate Standing

book information:
No textbook

Course Name:Terrorism and Political Violence

Course Description:Analysis of the role of violence in the political process and of the threat posed to localities, states, and nations from groups willing to employ political violence. Review of current political and terroist groups and examination of efforts to address threats of political violence.

Pre-requisites:Graduate Standing

book information:
The New Global Terrorism, 2003
ISBN# 0130494135      978-0130494139

Terrorism: Research, Readings and Realities, 2005
ISBN# 0131173731      978-0131173736

Essentials of Terrorism: Concepts and Controversies, 2008
ISBN# 1412953138      978-1412953139

Course Name:Intelligence and Homeland Security

Course Description:Examination of the roles of intelligence in homeland security and national security policy, strategic and tactical warning, support for military operations, and covert action. Emphasis on problems in conduction intelligence in a democracy and on ethical considerations.

Pre-requisites:Graduate Standing; Completion of IHSM 615 or permission of the instructor.

book information:
Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy, 4th edition
ISBN# 0872896005      978-0872896000

Course Name:Analysis/Assessment of Strategic and Tactical Planning

Course Description:This course deals with broad strategy and tactical planning at the national level as also at the level of each critical infrastructure. Strategies discussed include the Homeland Security Strategy, strategy for combating terrorism, strategy for aviation, strategy for pandemic/influenza, strategy for maritime defense, cyberspace strategy. Tactical aspects include the national response plan and the national incident management system.

Pre-requisites:Graduate Standing; Admission to the Integrated Homeland Security management program or approval of program director.

book information:
Terrorism, Asymetric Warfare and Weapons of Mass Destruction, 2008
ISBN# 0313361193      978-0313361197

Course Name:Transportation Security Management

Course Description:Course description coming soon

Pre-requisites:Graduate Standing; Completion of IHSM core courses or permission of instructor.

Course Name:GIS Applications: Homeland Security and Emergency Management

Course Description:Study and use of selected computer hardware and software for the storage, retrieval, manipulation, analysis, and display of geographic data. Emphasis is placed on the application of geographic information systems (GIS) for homeland security and emergency management. The course is not intended to provide students with extensive training in particular GIS software. However, laboratory projects involving student use of Windows-based GIS software on desktop computers, and Internet-based GIS applications using Web browsers, are required and will reinforce important concepts.

Pre-requisites:Graduate Standing and major standing

book information:
Confronting Catastrophe: A GIS Handbook, 2002
ISBN# 1589480406       978-1589480407

GIS Tutorial for Homeland Security, 2008
ISBN# 1589481887       978-1589481886

GIS for Homeland Security, 2007
ISBN# 1589481550      978-1589481558

Course Name:Network Security

Course Description:Study and use of selected computer hardware and software for the storage, retrieval, manipulation, analysis, and display of geographic data. Emphasis is placed on the application of geographic information systems (GIS) for homeland security and emergency management. The course is not intended to provide students with extensive training in particular GIS software. However, laboratory projects involving student use of Windows-based GIS software on desktop computers, and Internet-based GIS applications using Web browsers, are required and will reinforce important concepts.

Pre-requisites:Graduate Standing and major standing

book information:
Security+ Guide to Network Security Fundamentals, 2nd edition
ISBN# 0619215666      978-0619215668

Course Name:Disaster Response and Community Health

Course Description:This course will address the need for professionals to incorporate an all hazards approach for disaster management and community health. Students will identify key international and national policies and their impact upon community health and national security. Student will be engaged in field work with the community of their choice to plan, implement, and evaluate a project designed to actively involve community members in some aspect of disaster preparedness.

Pre-requisites:Graduate standing, major standing.

book information:
Publication Manual of American Psych. Assoc., 5th edition
ISBN# 1557987912      978-1557987914

Preparing Nurses for Disaster Management, 1st edition
ISBN# 0131780697      978-0131780699

Course Name:Homeland Security and Constitutional Rights

Course Description:A comprehensive investigation and analysis of the relationship between national security and civil liberties in the war on terrorism and other threats to American security.

Pre-requisites:Graduate Standing; Completion of IHSM core courses or permission of instructor.

book information:
Terrorism and the Constitution, 3rd edition
ISBN# 1565849396      978-1565849396

Constitution of the United States, 1st edition
ISBN# 0226131041      978-0226131047

Military Tribunals and Presidential Power, 2005
ISBN# 0700613765      978-0700613762

Not A Suicide Pact: The Constitution in a Time of National Emergency, 2006
ISBN# 0-195304276      978-0195304275