CJUS 580 - Homeland Security

Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Laboratory (or Other) Hours: 0

Prerequisite(s): CJUS 500 and CJUS 510
Corequisite(s): None
Restriction(s): Students must be enrolled in the Master of Science in Criminal Justice program

This course is designed to provide the student with a broad-based study of terrorism from its earliest forms to present post 9-11 issues. The course will include the complexities of dealing with issues of terrorism, minimizing terrorism, and terrorism potentials. Special considerations of accomplishing missions and protecting individual civil rights are problematic and incorporated into the study of this topic. Special attention will be paid to Homeland Security in the United States from the national to the local police level.

Student Learning Outcomes of the Course:

Describe the history, theories and concepts of terrorism and counterterrorism.
Compare and contrast the causes, ideologies, operations, and organization of terrorist and counterterrorist organizations.
Analyze current critical infrastructure assets and stakeholders to evaluate how they relate to terrorism threats.
Create a guided research treatise on domestic terrorism as it is driven by the radical ideologies of religion and supremacism.