PSS6200EN - Homeland Security Policies, Principles and Procedures

Course description

This course examines key questions and issues facing the homeland security community. Students will address policy, organizational and substantive issues regarding homeland security and national defense support. The course emphasis will be on issues affecting policy, oversight, and procedures to support homeland security, national defense, and national decision making.

How this course benefits students

Homeland Security Policies, Principles and Procedures offers students the opportunity to discuss key policy and organizational design issues that future homeland security leaders will confront. Students will build upon and expand their analytic skills they will need to meet those challenges.

Why this course is important

Homeland Security Policies, Principles and Procedures will develop the student's knowledge of the security challenges impacting the United States changing social and political environment at a local, national, and global level. Students will discuss policy through policy development exercises. Students will identify and discuss key policy and organizational design issues that future homeland security leaders will confront.

Credit hours
3 hours
Subject area
Public Safety & Security
Educational level
Master
Learning type
Instructional
Prerequisites
None
Upcoming terms
Pending
* Schedule subject to change. Please contact the Registrar's office with schedule questions.

How this course relates to missional core values

Biblically based

Homeland Security Policies, Principles and Procedures will place a prominence on the cultural context and methods to intertwine ministry within the homeland security field. This course will elaborate on biblical and theological models on assisting individuals within the field of homeland security.

Missionally driven

This particular course will examine how to go where God is already working among homeland security professionals. Homeland security will discuss service before self as ones sees throughout biblical references.

Contextually informed

Homeland security is a multi-faceted career field. Students will examine methods within their local communities to enable them to develop ministry approaches for their local contexts within the field of homeland security.

Interculturally focused

Students will recognize that the homelands security profession will take them out of their own cultural comfort zone. Students will discuss how to express their faith in their own social context in culturally-appropriate ways within this career field.

Practically minded

A free and truly democratic society that values life and liberty will not survive without God's moral law. Students will discuss how missional ministry and homeland security can be intertwined.

Experientially transformed

Discussions will equip students with the ministry and missional skills needed to enhance God's will through the discipline of homeland security.