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SEC 4010 Security Systems
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
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 4040 Comparative Secur
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
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 4060 Eval Security Prog
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Methods of determining foreseeability of security incidents and resulting adequacy of security programming. Negligence proofing and concepts of legal liability. Discussion of industry standards and practices. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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SEC 4240 Crime Prev Design
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
The role of the physical environment in facilitating and hindering crime. Urban planning and architectural design to help minimize criminal activity. Foreseeability of crime based on neighborhood analysis. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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SEC 4900 Financial Aspects
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
The effective use and preparation of accounting information in management. Financial statements, cost analysis and control, budgeting, performance measurement, and capital expenditure analysis. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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SEC 4950 Computer Security
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
Overview of computer and information security in a competitive global environment. Course content includes discussions of economic espionages, 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 5010 Legal Issues Secur
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
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 5020 Loss Prevention
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
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 5030 Occup Safe/Health
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
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 5040 Comparative Secur
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
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 5050 Interviewing Meth
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
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 5060 Eval Security Prog
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
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 5100 Security Systems
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
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 5560 Terror Threats
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
This course focuses on the modern terrorist threat. While some attention is paid to the historical development of terrorism from the late 19th century, the emphasis is on the ideologies and tactics of current international political terrorism. The focal question is how a knowledge of current terrorist organizations can lead to an anticipation of their target selection and tactics so that effective counter terrorism practices can be employed. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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SEC 5870 Phys/Personnel Sec
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
This course was designed to assist the Information Assurance manager to be aware of the non-technological threats to information. Specifically, physical security includes environmental design and perimeter security variables that might make one¿s facility a target for intrusion and other mischief. Personnel security looks at the problems involved with hiring, training, supervising and if necessary discharging personnel so as to keep one¿s system secure from penetration and misuse from within one¿s organization. Security Administration majors should get permission from their program director before taking this course. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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SEC 5890 Forensic Criminology
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
This course studies the applications of criminal justice theory and research to deciding both civil and criminal law issues in the courtroom. Issues of foreseeability and liability created by knowledge of crime patterns, basic criminology, and established security procedures are examined. The role of the criminal justice and security professional as expert witness is discussed, both in terms of the level of professional certitude that can be attained and the ethics of advocacy as opposed to neutral expertise. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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SEC 5910 Homeland Security
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This course will discuss the concept of Homeland Security not from the perspective of the potential terrorist but from the point of view of those who are tasked with the responsibility of terrorism counteraction. This course will also introduce the student to techniques of Homeland Security, Force Field Analysis, Nonlinear Thinking and Threat Harmonics that are just mentioned in other courses by focusing on the theories and practices that come from law enforcement, security management, operations research, and criminology. This course will also examine practical examples where Homeland Security personnel have both failed and succeeded in their endeavors to utilize both theory and practice to resolve problems and effect positive change. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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SEC 5950 Comp & Info Secur
| Credit Hours | Recitation/Lecture Hours | Studio Hours | Clinical Hours | Lab Hours |
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 5980 Research Projects
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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 5990 Sem Secur 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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