10 courses with the subject HS, 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.
HS 230Introduction to Homeland Security3
This course will examine the social, political, legal, and ethical issues that arise in the context of homeland security, including principles and practices associated with the emerging discipline of homeland security; policies, directives, national plans, and legislation that shape and define the ongoing evolution of homeland security; key issues including civil liberties and diversity, and the relationship to public safety, private security, and national security.
This course covers the history, structure, and operations of the US counterintelligence community, including legal foundations of counterintelligence and critiques of recommended changes to the community.
This course introduces students to contemporary human trafficking and modern-day slavery. Students will assess the different legal frameworks used to combat human trafficking around the world and analyze the different discourses used to discuss the trafficking phenomena. In addition, the course will explore the physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual trauma experienced by victims of human trafficking and the methods used to recruit and control them, and the roles that entities such as government, the criminal justice system, the media, faith-based organizations, organized crime, and culture play in this complex human rights and social justice issue.
HS 230 or permission of instructor Offered: Fall, odd-numbered years
HS 344Cyber Crime3
This course will provide an overview of cybersecurity and computer crimes, discussing computer crime in nontechnical language while presenting basic modern procedures needed to investigate and prosecute it. This course will also examine theories developed to explain effects of cybercrime on society, how it relates to and impacts the criminal justice system, and what role criminal justice elements have in combating cybercrime.
HS 230 or permission of instructor Offered: Fall, Summer
HS 354Psychology of Terrorism3
This course explores our existing knowledge and understanding of terrorism, terrorists and the mental processes involved. This course will provide students with an opportunity to understand the threat of terrorism and its appeal to disenfranchised individuals and groups. This course will examine the range of potential threats to the U.S. homeland, focusing on terrorist acts and will consider strategies and means for addressing the threats.
HS 230 or permission of instructor Offered: Spring
HS 416National Security Law3
This course surveys the framework of domestic laws-constitutional, statutory, and regulatory-that variously authorizes and constrains the U.S. government’s pursuit of national security policies, with an emphasis on developments in this area since 9/11. The major aim of this course is to investigate leading topics in national and homeland security law, blending a strong policy-oriented focus with a rich historical approach, combined with the application of basic legal reasoning.
This course will provide an introduction to United States immigration law and policy, primarily from a Homeland Security perspective. The course will cover the substance of United States immigration law, national security issues related to immigration, and a discussion of immigration policy.
This course examines the fundamental elements of crisis, disaster, risk and emergency management. The course provides a foundational perspective as to how our present federal emergency management and homeland security structure emerged with emphasis placed on the characteristics, functions, and resources of its integrated systems. This course additionally focuses on the principles and practices of homeland security and emergency management at the local, state and federal levels.
HS 230 or permission of instructor Offered: Spring
HS 446Domestic Terrorism3
This course studies politically-motivated extremist violence in the United States, including discussion of definitional issues, radicalization, major attacks, current threats, history of principal extremist groups and their ideologies.
HS 230 or permission of instructor Offered: Spring
HS 447International Terrorism3
The class is designed to illuminate students’ understanding of the most important aspects of transnational terrorism and counterterrorism with emphasis on the United States as target of and responder to this sort of political violence. This course will provide a theoretical and empirical understanding and explanation of terrorism and counterterrorism. It will identify various analytical as well as law enforcement approaches to the study of terrorism: identifying terrorist groups, reviewing terrorist tactics, and examining police and governmental responses to reduce or control the incidence of terrorism.
