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Apr 28, 2024
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HSEM 250 Homeland Security Law and Policy (4 credits)
Prerequisite HSEM 102 or HSEM 105 with at least a 2.0 grade.
Course Description
This course is designed to give the student an overview of various statutes, regulations, constitutional law, and common law associated with Homeland Security Emergency Management. Students will be introduced to the legalities and ethics relevant to organizing for counterterrorism, investigating terrorism and other national security threats, crisis and consequence management.
Course Content
Emergency Management and the Homeland Security Act of 2002
Homeland Security from a Local, State and Federal Perspective
Partnerships with Homeland Security
Ethical, legal and social Issues
Anti-terrorism Investigation and the Fourth Amendment
National Response Framework (NRF)/National Incident Management System (NIMS)
USA Patriot Act
Robert T. Stafford Act
Critical Infrastructure Protection and Cybersecurity
Student Outcomes
Compare and contrast an effective policy with a poor policy.
Discuss ethical, legal, and social issues in Homeland Security.
Examine local, state, and federal dynamics involved with the introduction and implementation of new laws and regulations.
Explain laws and legal issues related to a disaster risk problem.
Describe important statutes and policies enacted post 9-11and their impact on emergency management.
Degree Outcomes
Core Abilities Outcomes:
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.
Responsibility: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts and consequences of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable systems.
Program Outcome:
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.
Interpret ethical and legal issues that impact emergency management and homeland security.
Lecture Contact Hours 40
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 40
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