Homeland Security: Prep Res

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Juris Doctor

Homeland security has taken on new and important dimensions in societies across the globe. From pandemics like COVID-19 to immigration policy, from natural disasters to technological disasters and cyber protection, and from accidents to terrorism and war, students will examine homeland security from a multi-dimensional perspective as to how society prepares for and attempts to become resilient to the wide range of natural, technological and intentionally caused disasters, events or aggressions. Students will analyze in detail the vexing question as to why countries like the United States are continually under prepared and what concepts, strategies and programs are needed to rectify this situation. Students will examine and assess a specific aspect or program of homeland security that is of particular interest to them as part of the course’s focus on the interplay between theory and practice, the subsequent development of strategy and policy, and its implementation through specific programs. Both successes and failures will be studied, with the goal of providing the student with a set of concepts and techniques for understanding and analyzing the important components of homeland security and the impacts on nations and the individuals that reside within them.