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SEC 5010 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 5020 Principles of Loss Prevention
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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 5030 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 5040 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 5050 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 5060 Evaluation of Security Programs
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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 5100 Security Systems
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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 5240 Crime Prevention
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This course will lay the foundation for future work in the Security arena by teaching the Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (C.P.T.E.D.) process and giving the student a set of measurable skills. This course is also designed to introduce the student to a relatively untapped area in Security Administration, Criminology, and Architecture. Rather than focusing on the guardian as the major factor in the Security arena, this course will examine the role that the built environment has in preventing, identifying, and solving problems and concerns related to crime including; deterrence, detection, and prevention. Emphasis will be placed on the balance between experience, knowledge, intuition and technology. There will also be guest speakers from several industries. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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SEC 5560 Terror Threats and Information Assurance
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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 5800 Executive Protection
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Is protection an art or a science? What does it mean to protect a person, a place or a reputation? Which takes precedent? These questions and more will be answered. This course provides the student with the knowledge skills and abilities necessary to identify, appraise, and mitigate the threats and the hazards that the protectee may face. This course will also provide the student with the ability to form strategic plans of protection and outline intelligence based responses. Other included topics will be: Industrial Espionage, Explosive Detection, Video and Audio Surveillance Detection, Kidnap Prevention and Hostage Survival and Negotiation. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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SEC 5870 Physical and Personal Security
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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
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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 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 5980 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 5990 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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