12 courses with the subject HMLS, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
HMLS 215Introduction to Homeland Security3
An overview of the history, organization, and the functions of the Department of Homeland Security. Examines and explores the theories, concepts, and case studies that are a part of homeland security in the United States.
HMLS 222Ethical and Legal Issues in Homeland Security3
This course is a practical study of ethics in the National Security arena and examines the ethical issues facing individuals and institutions in and outside the government, nationally and internationally. Concepts and principles will be used throughout the course to give meaning to specific behaviors, but theory will be related to real-world applications. Offered: S.
Examines the political and operational factors influencing border and immigration control at the federal, state and local levels. Students will analyze homeland security legislation, practices, and presidential directives focusing on issues dealing with border and immigration control.
Provides a basic understanding of the identification, prioritization, and protection of critical infrastructure including information technology, telecommunications, chemical, transportations, energy, water, medical, emergency services, and postal and shipping. The course will focus on risk-based implementation of protective measure and practices.
Presents the development of communication and management skills essential for successfully resolving conflict situations involving labor and management practices. The structural dysfunction of organizations is also explored.
This course will introduce students to the form, function, purpose, and general capabilities of the US Intelligence Community (IC) and the supporting role intelligence analysis plays in achieving US national security objectives. Special emphasis in this course will be placed on developing the critical thinking, writing, and briefing skills necessary to successfully perform as an intelligence analyst.
The world is now experiencing several global issues that are threats to our security. These issues include, but are not limited to, human trafficking, terrorist acts, the spread of a pandemic, drug trafficking, etc. The proposed course addresses one or more of such issues depending on the instructor’s area of interest.
This course emphasizes the histories, types, and theories of terrorism with a special focus on social and social movement theories, network analysis, and ideology in analyzing the socio-economic and political costs of terrorism, and the prediction of terrorist acts in the future.
This senior capstone course allows students majoring in homeland security to analyze specific program related issues and problems using the knowledge and understanding gained by completing the required courses in the program and a significant number of the major courses.
HMLS 499 represents the professional work experience required in the homeland security major. Students work in a professional setting for a minimum of 180 hours under the supervision of a site supervisor. Internships may be taken at any time after students have taken 30 credits of university coursework.