BA Program in Security Studies (ONLINE)

Annoucement

Opportunity: Homeland Security Science & Technology Summer Student Research Assistantship Six week Internship – June 7 – July 16, 2010
Stipend: $2,400
Students will work in interdisciplinary research teams with a faculty mentor in a homeland security science and technology project in the social and behavioral sciences priority research area.
Applications will be available February 16, 2010.
Application Deadline: April 30, 2010
Students will be notified of acceptance prior to May 15, 2010.
This opportunity is open to all currently enrolled full-time undergraduate students who will continue their enrollment in the fall 2010.
For an application, contact Ms. Charnita Wilson: cwilson@udc.edu
In the email subject line enter: HS-SSRA

Security Studies is a dynamic, complex, and constantly changing field. It offers students life-long challenges to make the arena of national level security and its sub-systems, more efficient and up-to-date to address current and new threats to the nation and society. This program encourages self-directed intellectual inquiry, problem solving, ethics, and a commitment to human rights as important professional values.

There is a real and pressing need to increase the number of younger generation professionals to replace those retiring, as well as women and persons of color working in this field. It is ranked in the top 10 for employment opportunities with both public and private sector career options available. Graduates with degrees in security work at the federal, state, county, or city levels, as well as internationally and in the private sector and non-profits as operations officers and managers, analysts and researchers, trainers and other related job categories.

Security Studies is the scientific study of threats to the integrity of the nation-state, and the systems, pressure points and agents who constitute threats, as well as society’s reaction to real or perceived threats. This degree program offers an interdisciplinary course of study and follows a curriculum that includes policy and legal issues, case studies, qualitative and quantitative research, interpersonal relations skills, and administrative procedures. Analytical writing and verbal skills as well as computer application are integrated throughout the program. Computer-based research and analysis play a pivotal role in the field; thus, students are required to take research and criminology courses that use computer software applications.

University – Wide Requirements:

Course Credits

English Composition I (3)
English Composition II (3)
Literature and Advanced Writing I (3)
Literature and Advanced Writing II (3)
College Mathematics I (3)
College Mathematics II (or Elementary Statistics I) (3)
Natural Science (with Lab only) (8)
Foreign Language I (3)
Foreign Language II (3)
Philosophy (Social and Political Philosophy) (3)
World Art History (3)
Public Speaking (3)

Security Studies Program Requirements:

Major Courses

Course Credits

1125-102 Criminology (3)
1125-141 Foundations of Security Studies (3)
1125-175 Intro to Geo-Spatial Analysis (3)
1125-201 Forensic Investigations (3)
1125-232 Criminal Behavior (3)
1125-240 Domestic Terrorism (3)
1125-241 International Terrorism (3)
1125-243 National Security Law, Policy and Objectives (3)
1125-300 Constitutional Law (3)
1125-340 Homeland Security (3)
1125-342 Systems of Terrorist Tradecraft (3)
1169-377 U.S. Foreign Policy (3)
1125-345 Crisis Management (3)
1125-391 Field Work (2)
1125-440 Intelligence and Counterintelligence Operations (3)
1125-441 Case Studies in the Law of Armed Conflict (3)
1125-450 Research In Justice Systems (3)
1125-490 Senior Seminar (3)
1175—— Ethnography (3)
1169-206 American Government (3)
2131-355 Economic Development (3)
2201-201 Principles of Accounting I (3)
1161-105 World Cultural Geography (3)

Electives

1125-391 Field Work (2)
1125-345 Special Topics (9)

Total credit hours for SS Justice BA Degree 120