HSEM 190 Homeland Security Emergency Management Special Topics (3 credits)

2.Apply information to solve a given problem using the course topic. 

3.Compare and contrast the chosen topic with existing knowledge and experience in homeland security or emergency management. 

4.Evaluate the impact of the chosen topic as it relates to emergency management.

Degree Outcomes
Core Abilities 

• Critical, Creative and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.

• Intercultural Engagement: Graduates demonstrate self-efficacy in intercultural engagement to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion through reflections and expressions of cultural humility, empathy, and social and civic engagement and action. Further, graduates examine how identities/positionalities such as races, social classes, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, and cultures impact perceptions, actions, and the distribution of power and privilege in communities, systems, and institutions.

Program Outcomes: 

• Graduates apply a solid foundation of knowledge and skills to assume leadership roles in emergency management, homeland security, and/or public policy.  

• Develop agency/organization specific tools to evaluate specific domestic security challenges for the 21st Century that face the United States and other industrialized nations. 

• Design and modify plans and programs at federal, state, and/or local levels to reflect the evolving strategic policy issues associated with a statutory and presidential direction for homeland security.