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.

Practical benefits of data mining will be presented; data warehousing, data cubes, and underlying algorithms used by data mining software.

A web-centric look at the latest techniques and practices in computer security as they apply to the internet.

This course will investigate the evolution of information systems architecture.

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

This course focuses on the tools and techniques required for collecting data and preparing them for further analysis.

Examination of large-scale data storage technologies, including NoSQL database systems for looser structured data, and data warehouses for dimensional data.

This course provides a foundation in the principles, concepts, techniques, and tools for visualizing large data sets.

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

This course assesses the controlling authorities that pertain to homeland security, from the U.S. Constitution to major federal statutes, court decisions, and executive directives.

Fundamental issues and concepts of computer forensics; aspects of computer and cybercrime; methods to uncover, protect, exploit, and document digital evidence; tools, techniques, and procedures to perform computer and cybercrime investigation.

Essential skills and knowledge for effectively utilizing networks and Internet technologies to facilitate, manage, and secure data communications and applications.

This course provides theoretical and applied foundations of fundamentals of network security, data sources, data collection techniques and tools, cybersecurity analytics infrastructure, machine learning and data mining, network forensics, anomaly and malware detection, security data visualization, and security dashboard design and implementation.

Analysis of political terrorism as a violent alternative for peaceful change and traditional warfare in the nuclear age.

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

Master Research Paper/Project - Supervised student activities on research projects identified on an individual or small-group basis. For example, application of homeland security studies in the form of a graduate-level project relating to emerging cyber threats; analytical tools and methods; and security, prevention, and protection.