Courses

Foundation for understanding homeland security history, the development of homeland security policies and organizations, and current management approaches.

This course will examine the social, political, legal, and ethical issues that arise in the context of homeland security.

Provides an overview of the domestic and global issues related to homeland security.

Analyzes the history of terrorism and explores the preparation and response to specific terrorist threats, natural disasters, and conventional catastrophes.

A public health perspective on the preparation necessary to develop a coordinated response to a disaster or terrorist emergency.

Introduces students to the design of exposure assessment and health effect studies applicable to disasters and terrorism.

Examines the complexities involved in the protection of health care delivery systems affected during a natural disaster or terrorist attack, including the impact of disrupted transport systems, computer and Internet security, communications, energy supply, industry, and governmental institutions.

This course will explore intentional and unintentional threats to the agriculture food system, history, and current approaches for safeguarding this key infrastructure.

This course will examine a wide range of animal health topics as it relates to infectious diseases, diagnostic systems, surveillance systems, epidemiology of those diseases, and effective responses in the case of an outbreak either naturally or intentionally caused.

This seminar provides students with a comprehensive understanding of the multifaceted nature of disaster communication across phases of a disaster.

The application of cultural geography in the intelligence analysis and synthesis process by identifying prominent threats to civil security.

Case studies of the causes and consequences of natural disasters; analysis of disaster impact in different economic, cultural, and social conditions.

Explores psychological impact of disasters and terrorist attacks on victims, families, rescuers, and society and methods of reducing negative effects.

This course examines the fundamental elements of crisis, disaster, risk, and emergency management.

This course provides theoretical and applied foundations of information security and assurance.

Introduces visual analytic techniques for security informatics and intelligence. Survey technical approaches for data analysis and threats and vulnerability, communicating risk.

A problem-based, interdisciplinary course in project management skills and techniques needed to manage projects in a modern business environment.

Creative projects, including nonthesis research, which are supervised on an individual basis and which fall outside the scope of formal courses.

This course will enable students to study obstacles outside of traditional pharmaceutical interventions that have major influences on the success or failure of public health responses.

Teaches fundamentals of emergency preparedness exercises (i.e., orientation, tabletop, drill, functional, and full-scale exercises).

This course covers the principles, methods, and competencies for developing, improving, and evaluating a biorisk management system.

Evaluation of intervention strategies from a biobehavioral health context; theories of change processes in health.

Introduction to the application of techniques and interpretation of results that are commonly used to plan, analyze, and report clinical and health services research.

Students will learn to utilize basic epidemiological methods, i.e., design, calculate, analyze, interpret, report, in the examination of public health problems or programs. Topics include measurements, surveillance, outbreak investigation, bias, and study design.

Examination of health systems, organization, financing, and evaluation; trends, problems, and issues.

Investigates the role economic, political, and social factors play in determining patterns of international and domestic terrorism and terrorist activity.

Culminating course; application of your homeland security studies in the form of a graduate-level project relating to public health preparedness.