HD3180 Introduction to Homeland Defense and Security

This course provides an overview of the essential ideas that constitute the emerging discipline of homeland security. It has two central objectives: to expand the way participants think, analyze and communicate about homeland security; and to assess knowledge in critical homeland security knowledge domains. Enrollment limited to students in Curriculum 692.

Lecture Hours

4

Lab Hours

0

Course Learning Outcomes

• Demonstrate the ability to analyze, critique, and synthesize the information and concepts covered in the readings.
• Demonstrate the ability to provide evidence and reasons to support rigorous analysis and positions.
• Demonstrate the ability to create new ideas, connections, and understandings of current and future homeland security issues.
• Demonstrate the ability to effectively communicate arguments and evidence in multiple formats.
• Demonstrate the ability to use multiple modes of inquiry to encourage compatible and competing views in dialogue about current and future homeland security issues.
• Demonstrate listening skills by integrating ideas of others with one’s own in order to synthesize new ideas, alternatives, or solutions.
• Ask highly relevant questions that advance the discussion and evoke deeper responses from others.
• Demonstrate an ability to develop a learning agenda relevant to one’s professional educational needs.