| Foundations
of Homeland Security
Michigan
State University 's School of Criminal Justice
Foundations
of Homeland Security
Professor
Phillip D. Schertzing, Ph.D.
Overview
Foundations of Homeland Security
is one of three core courses in the new online Certificate
in Homeland Security Studies program offered by the MSU
School of Criminal Justice.
This course provides both traditional
students and current practitioners with a broad overview and assessment
of the contemporary homeland security program.
Curriculum
The curriculum and topics for
this course were chosen based on the following question:
- What would or should a person need
to know in order to have a big picture view of homeland security and
its major issues and elements?
The topics and content were
selected to provide an awareness and appreciation of the major themes
that emanate from the homeland security spectrum.
Course Module Objectives
Module 1: Course
Overview and Orientation to ANGEL
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Access
and navigate the ANGEL
system and the main features necessary to begin and succeed in this
course;
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Describe the relevance
and interdisciplinary characteristics of homeland security as a current
subject of inquiry and an emerging discipline;
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Define and distinguish
between homeland security, emergency management, homeland defense
and national security;
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Access and review the
course syllabus and schedule;
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Upload a personal bio
and review the biographies of faculty and classmates;
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Post a response
to a threaded discussion in a discussion forum.
Module 2: Historical
Perspectives on Homeland Security
- Identify key features and events related
to emergency management and homeland security in early American history,
from the Revolutionary War to the dawn of the twentieth century.
- Describe how Progressive
Era reforms and American mobilization for World War I influenced
modern emergency management and homeland security.
- Chronologically trace key stages and events
in the evolution of civil defense, emergency management and homeland
security in the United States from World War I to the war against terrorism.
- Compare and contrast historical parallels,
precedents, and differences between the contemporary American response
to terrorism and the response to earlier crises.
Sample
Assignment and Response
Sample
Case Study
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Module 3: The Modern
Threat of Terrorism and WMD
- Define terrorism and describe the history
and nature of terrorism.
- Identify terrorist groups, organizations
and ideologies operating throughout the world and the United States.
- Articulate the current terrorist threat to
the United States, including domestic and transnational terrorism.
- Articulate the historical foundations of
weapons of mass destruction (WMD).
- Identify and define chemical, biological,
radiological, nuclear and explosive weapons of mass destruction (CBRNE-WMD).
Sample
Assignment and Response
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Module 4: Fundamental
Principles of Emergency Management and Homeland Security
- Organize emergency
management functions, organizations, and activities using concepts
and terms explained in the course.
- Explain the all-hazard
emergency management process that integrates the resources of local,
tribal, State, and Federal governments and voluntary and business assets.
- Explain the local, tribal, State, Federal,
and citizen roles in emergency management.
- Explain what citizens can do to protect themselves
in emergencies.
- Describe the elements of an emergency management
program.
- Discuss the role of individuals and organizations,
as well as their relationships with one another, in emergency management.
- Explain the importance of networking to emergency
management.
- Explain the social, political, and economic
implications of a disaster.
- Recognize opportunities for self-help and
empowerment in emergency management.
- Describe alternate models for organizing
emergency management programs.
Sample
Assignment and Response
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Module 5 : A Work
in Progress: The National Homeland Security System
- Recognize and explain the major elements,
programs, concepts, agencies and issues involved in the national homeland
security system.
- Explain the main elements of the National
Strategy for Homeland Security.
- Describe the evolution and organizational
structure of the U.S. Department of Homeland
Security.
- Describe the composition and role of the
Homeland
Security Advisory Council.
- Explain the elements, utility and weaknesses
of the Homeland
Security Advisory System (HSAS).
- Describe the major elements of Homeland
Security Presidential Directive (HSPD) 5 for Management of Domestic
Incidents and HSPD
8 for National Preparedness.
- Describe the key concepts, principles and
components of the National
Incident Management System (NIMS).
- Describe the key elements of the National
Response Plan (NRP).
- Explain civil-military interface in homeland
security and homeland defense.Describe the major elements and activities
associated with the Homeland
Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP).
- Describe the homeland security mission and
programs of the U.S.
Citizen's Corps.
- Describe the major federal homeland
security grant programs to state and local governments and first
responders.
- Describe state and local homeland security
organizations and programs, including Michigan's system as a unique,
yet also representative, example.
- Explain the social, political, economic,
bureaucratic and public administration implications of the national
homeland security system and homeland security grants.
Sample
Assignment and Response
Top
Module 6: Public Health
and Environmental Protection in Homeland Security
- Recognize and explain the major elements,
programs, concepts, agencies and issues concerning the role of public
health and environmental protection in the national homeland security
system.
- Explain the role of the primary federal
agencies involved in public health preparedness and environmental protection,
especially HHS, CDC,
FDA and EPA.
- Describe the primary public health functions
of epidemiology,
surveillance, quarantine and isolation, laboratory testing and risk
communications pertaining to public health preparedness in the context
of bioterrorism.
- Describe the nexus between public health
and veterinary medicine in relation to foreign animal and zoonotic diseases.
- Describe the main features of the Strategic
National Stockpile (SNS)
and the Metropolitan Medical Response System (MMRS).
- Describe the status and progress of public
health preparedness in the United States for bioterrorism and other
public health emergencies.
- Describe the American public's apparent
or likely response to various bioterrorism and public health preparedness
programs or measures
Sample
Assignment and Response
Sample
Case Study
Top
Module 7: Private
Sector Role and Impacts in Homeland Security
- Explain the major concepts and elements
of the Critical
Incident Protocol program administered by the MSU School of Criminal
Justice under a federal grant from DHS-ODP,
including social capital, risk assessments, planning, and public-private
partnerships for emergency preparedness.
- Describe the key elements and assets included
in the national Critical
Infrastructure protection (CIP) program as outlined in HSPD-7
and the National
Strategy for the Physical Protection of Critical Infrastructure and
Key Assets.
- Explain the role of major volunteer organizations
such as those associated with the Corporation
for National & Community Service and National
Volunteer Organizations Active in Disasters (NVOAD) in national
preparedness and homeland security.
- Explain key terms, concepts and programs
relating to the public sector role in emergency preparedness and homeland
security, including interdependencies, business continuity planning,
risk management, supply chain and packaging security, transportation
and port security, and DHS offices or programs that focus on the private
sector and critical infrastructure protection.
- Describe the major elements and standards
of the NFPA
1600 Standard on Disaster/Emergency Management and Business Continuity
Programs.
Sample
Assignment and Response
Sample
Case Study
Top
Module 8: Security
vs Civil Liberties? Criminal Justice and Constitutional Issues in Homeland
Security
- Achieve the specific objectives listed at
the beginning of each of the seven individual chapters in Jonathan White's
book: Defending
the Homeland: Domestic Intelligence, Law Enforcement, and Security.
- These objectives include, among others, familiarization
with the constitutional, bureaucratic, and operational issues and impacts
pertaining to the war on terror; counterterrorism; intelligence; law
enforcement; and the USA Patriot Act.
Sample
Assignment and Response
Top
Module 9: Special Topics in Homeland Security
- Describe the organization, funding, mission
and research focus areas of the Homeland
Security Advanced Research Projects Agency (HSARPA); the Homeland
Security Research Centers of Excellence; and our system of National
& Federal Laboratories.
- Describe the major issues, concepts, vulnerabilities
and programs pertaining to cyberterrorism and cybersecurity.
- Describe the major technology issues, challenges,
applications and programs pertaining to homeland security, including
SAFECOM
and the interoperability of public safety communications; GIS/GPS,
incident management software such as e-team,
biometrics
and geospatial
modeling applications in homeland security.
- Describe the major occupational health and
safety issues, challenges and equipment pertaining to personal
protection equipment (PPE) and decontamination equipment for emergency
first responders for HazMat and/or WMD incidents.
- Describe the major issues, concepts, challenges
and programs pertaining to food safety and security and agroterrorism.
Sample
Assignment and Response
Top
Module 10: Homeland
Security: Success or Failure? Myth vs. Reality
- Critically assess the major achievements,
progress, failures and shortfalls of our national homeland security
program from 9/11/01 to the present.
- Compare and contrast the divergent arguments,
perspectives and conclusions as outlined in the required text with other
relevant sources.
Sample
Assignment and Response
Top
Module 11: Course
Review and Conclusion
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