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SEC 501 Legal Issues in Security
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Criminal law, administrative law, and extra-legal contractual agreements that impact the American business scene. Further emphasis on laws of arrest, search and seizure, evidence, and tort liability as applied to private security. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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SEC 502 Principles of Loss Prevention--Security Surveys
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An examination of security programming responding to commercial, retail, industrial, and governmental proprietary needs. Review of physical, personnel, and informational security. Techniques of the security audit. Comprehensive examination of the security survey and audit process. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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SEC 503 Occupational Safety and Health
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State and federal legislation that impact safety in the work place. Employers’ rights and responsibilities. Life safety systems, NFPA requirements and BOCA codes will be explored. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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SEC 504 Comparative Security
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Security requirements in special protection, hospital, airport, campus and computer crime. Emphasis is also placed on industrial sabotage, espionage and ethics. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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SEC 505 Interviewing Methods
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Approaches to interviewing in human services with special attention to legal and practical issues in law enforcement, corrections, and security. Analysis of non-verbal behavior and techniques of assessing credibility. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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SEC 506 Evaluation of Security Programming
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Methods of determining foreseeability of security incidents and adequacy of security programming in light of this foreseeability. Negligence proofing and concepts of legal liability. Discussion of industry standards and practices. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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SEC 510 Security Systems & Crime Prevention
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An overview designed to provide the student with the history, organization, and administration of private security and crime prevention. Emphasis is placed on policy and decision making, personnel, budgeting, and integration to the business world. Crime prevention theories relating to environmental, situational, and natural methods of crime prevention are explored. The course is beneficial to security practitioners or criminal justice students aspiring to work in the areas of police crime prevention or community- based policing. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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SEC 595 Computer and Information Security
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Overview of computer and information security in a competitive global environment. Course content includes discussions of economic espionage, financial frauds and computer crimes, protection of proprietary information (in all forms), disaster containment and recovery, the evolution of security countermeasures, and privacy and ethical issues. Computer programming knowledge is not required. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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SEC 598 Research Projects in Security
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Research project in area of specialized interest. Restricted to students who have completed a major portion of their course work. By arrangement only. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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SEC 599 Seminar in Security Issues
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Review and analysis of current controversies in security including problems of terrorism, false alarms, and public police moonlighting in private security. Critique of critical reviews of the security field including RAND, Hallcrest I and II, and other government reports. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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