Program Description

The graduate certificate in security studies provides an understanding of national and international threats posed by non-state actors such as terrorist networks, and the landscape of response coordination required to meet challenges posed by such threats.

Program Objectives

The goal of the certificate program is to develop new thinking toward security within a changing environment. Countering and responding to the new threats requires integration of traditional military strategies with criminal justice systems and investigation, intelligence gathering, policy development, emergency planning and response, and interagency cooperation at multiple levels of government and between governments.

Curriculum - Core Courses

Students in the security studies certificate program work with a certificate coordinator to choose five of the six courses listed here for a total of 15 semester hours of course work:

• JUST 6502: Criminal Justice and Terrorism.........................................3 s.h.
• EHST 6010: Fundamentals of Environmental Health............................3 s.h.
• PADM 6170: Intergovernmental/Interagency Relations........................3 s.h.
• PLAN 6015: Emergency/Disaster Planning..........................................3 s.h.
• POLS 6155: Changing Nature of National Security..............................3 s.h.
• POLS 6382: Global Terrorism.............................................................3 s.h.

Additional Courses

Other Graduate level courses may become available during the year which may be substituted for the above core courses. Consideration will be made on a case-by-case basis.

Transfer Credits

Upon approval by the Security Studies Program Committee, up to 6 credit hours of graduate level work from an accredited institution may be transferred to the Graduate Certificate.