CJ 3056 - Homeland Security

3 cr. 3 hr. Offered every spring semester.

This course examines the historical and contemporary governmental actions designed to prevent, detect, respond to, and recover from acts of terrorism and national disasters. Focuses on efforts to align Federal, State, local, tribal, private sector, and non-governmental preparedness, incident management, and emergency response plans into the effective and efficient national structure necessary for the protection of the United States. This course will focus on the duties and responsibilities of first responders to incidents of terrorism and disasters. In this course, students will become certified in the FEMA’s Incident Command System and the National Incident Management System and will also study the State and Local Anti-Terrorism Training system of the US Department of Justice, or its successor program should it be replaced or updated.

Prerequisite(s): CJ 1000, CJ 2050