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O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs

V425 Homeland Security: Policy and Practice

Instructor: David G. Henry, Instructor

Class Meeting: M/W 6:30PM - 7:45PM A201

Office Hours: By Appointment

 

Course Description: This course examines homeland security policy, through of

the practice of homeland security efforts at the local, state and national level. We will analyze

the policy objectives of national homeland security efforts and survey the current policy

areas that comprise U.S. Homeland Security in the context of recent history since 2001. This

survey will include the key concepts, threats and terminology, and primary source

documents. The course will introduce students to the basics of the homeland security

enterprise and will review its major participants. Furthermore, the course will explain the

relationships among public, private, and non-governmental organizations and evaluate

current events, the future of homeland security and its implications for federalism, fiscal

policy and civil liberties.

 

Learning Outcomes: 

  • Students will develop a broad knowledge of the Homeland Security mission, history organization, and policy.

  • Students will better understand homeland security from the perspective of the major disciplines within the Homeland Security Enterprise—law enforcement, infrastructure protection, emergency management, intelligence, and policy, as well as the roles of local, state, federal and private sector actors in homeland security.

  • Students may discover a career interest in the Homeland Security Enterprise.

  • Students will explore the implications of policy decisions through critical thinking,

strategic decision-making and case studies. Students will develop their own informed

opinions through policy briefs.

 

Textbooks: 

  • Ben Rohrbaugh. More or Less Afraid of Nearly Everything: Homeland Security, Borders,and Disasters in the Twenty-First Century . Michigan. 2020. ISBN 978-0472054626
  • J.M. Berger. Extremism. MIT 2018. ISBN 978-0-2625-3587-8
  • George Orwell. 1984 (Penguin (or any), 1950). ISBN 978-0-4515-2493-5
  • Chappell Lawson, Alan Bersin, and Juliette Kayyem, eds. Beyond 9/11: Homeland Security for the Twenty-First Century. MIT Press, 2020. ISBN: 9780262044820

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