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HOMELAND SECURITY STUDIES

 

Tulane's School of Continuing Studies offers a Master of Professional Studies and a Bachelor of Arts in Homeland Security Studies, as well as a Minor and a Post-Baccalaureate Certificate.

BACHELOR OF ARTS IN HOMELAND SECURITY STUDIES

Core Competencies

  • ENGL 1010 Writing
    Select one course:
  • Math
  • PHIL 1060 Critical Thinking
  • PHIL 1210 Elementary Symbolic Logic
  • BSMT 3250 Business Statistics (recommended)
  • CPST 1070 Math for Information Technology

  • Foreign Language or non-Western Culture, 6-8 credits

Supporting Requirement: Oral Communications - Select one course:

Distribution Requirements (at least two disciplines per category)

  • Humanities, 12 credits
  • Sciences, 12 credits
  • Social Sciences, 12 credits

Writing Requirement

  • Designated writing course (CSEN 3310 Business Report Writing recommended)

Major Requirements

Select three courses:

Homeland Security:

  • HMLS 4500 Intelligence Analysis/Critical Thinking
  • HMLS 4600 Homeland Security & Approaches to Counter-Terrorism
  • HMLS 4700 Maritime & Border Security
Applied Computing:

Earth & Environmental Science:

History of the Middle East/North Africa:

  • HISM 1200 The Contemporary Middle East
  • HISM 3200 History of Islam
  • HISM 3210 Modern Middle East
  • HISM 3220 The Arab-Israeli Conflict

United States History:

  • HISU 3530 War & National Policy in the United States
  • HISU 3590 War & National Policy in the U.S., 1898 to the Recent Past
  • HISU 6500 Emergence of the Modern U.S., 1917 to 1945

American Political Process and Institutions:

International Politics, Organization, and Law:

  • POLI 4520 Intelligence & Covert Operations
  • POLI 4530 American Foreign Policy
  • POLI 4630 Strategy and Politics
  • POLI 6630 International Security

Sociology:

Minor (optional)

  • Varies according to minor chosen

General Electives

  • As needed to total 120 credits

ASSOCIATE OF ARTS IN HOMELAND SECURITY STUDIES

Core Competencies

Supporting Requirement: Oral Communications - Select one course:

Distribution Requirements (at least two disciplines per category)

  • Humanities, 6 credits
  • Sciences, 6 credits
  • Social Sciences, 6 credits

Writing Requirement

  • Designated writing course

Major Requirements

  • HMLS 2750 National Challenge
  • HMLS 3150 Health and Medical Issues in Emergency Management
  • HMLS 3200 Domestic and International Terrorism
  • HMLS 3250 Emergency Management
  • HMLS 3500 Intelligence Research, Method, and Analysis
    • Select two courses:
  • HMLS 3700 Transportation and Border Security
  • HMLS 4500 Intelligence Analysis: Critical Thinking
  • HMLS 4600 HMLS: Counter-Terrorism
  • HMLS 4700 Maritime and Border Security

General Electives

  • As needed to total 60 credits

MINOR IN HOMELAND SECURITY STUDIES

Minor Requirements

  • HMLS 2750 Homeland Security
  • HMLS 3150 Health and Medical Issues in Emergency Management
  • HMLS 3200 Domestic and International Terrorism
  • HMLS 3250 Emergency Management
  • Two elective HMLS prefix courses

POST-BACCALAUREATE CERTIFICATE IN HOMELAND SECURITY STUDIES

Core Requirements

  • HMLS 2750 Homeland Security
  • HMLS 3150 Health and Medical Issues in Emergency Management
  • HMLS 3200 Domestic and International Terrorism
  • HMLS 3250 Emergency Management
  • HMLS 3500 Intelligence Research, Method & Analysis
  • HMLS 3600 Critical Infrastructure Protection
  • HMLS 3700 Transportation and Border Security
  • HMLS 4990 Homeland Security Practicum
    (open only to students in their last year of study for the homeland security post-baccalaureate certificate)


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