HLSS320  - Intelligence and Homeland Security

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This course introduces the student to the relationships between intelligence and homeland security strategy. The course utilizes a historical case study approach, analyzing both past and contemporary national security issues from an intelligence perspective to highlight the increasingly important role intelligence has played and will play in the homeland security strategy process. The course presents the evolving relationship between intelligence and homeland security strategy during the 20th century, with particular emphasis on the Cold War because of the lessons to be learned from that period.

 

Prerequisites

N/A

Corequisites

N/A

Schedule of Classes

Registration Dates Course Dates Session
11/05/09 - 03/28/10 04/05/10 - 05/30/10 Spring 2010 Session B - 8 Week session
11/30/09 - 04/25/10 05/03/10 - 06/27/10 Spring 2010 Session I - 8 Week session
12/28/09 - 05/30/10 06/07/10 - 08/01/10 Spring 2010 Session D - 8 Week session
01/25/10 - 06/27/10 07/05/10 - 08/29/10 Summer 2010 Session B - 8 Week session
02/22/10 - 07/25/10 08/02/10 - 09/26/10 Summer 2010 Session I - 8 Week session
03/29/10 - 08/29/10 09/06/10 - 10/31/10 Summer 2010 Session D - 8 Week session
04/26/10 - 09/26/10 10/04/10 - 11/28/10 Fall 2010 Session B - 8 Week session
05/31/10 - 10/24/10 11/01/10 - 12/26/10 Fall 2010 Session I - 8 Week session
06/28/10 - 11/28/10 12/06/10 - 01/30/11 Fall 2010 Session D - 8 Week session

Course Materials

Book Title: Stateside & Canadian Students: The e-book is available online and the location/access information is provided in the classroom. If you wish to purchase the hard copy text, you may do so through the bookseller of your choice.
ISBN: Online Text Note
Publication Info: N/A

Book Title: The hard copy 9/11 Report will only be sent to overseas students.
ISBN: 9/11 Report Note
Publication Info: N/A

Book Title: Russian View of US Strategy
ISBN: 0765806363
Publication Info: Piscataway, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1999

Book Title: Defense Intelligence Journal Vol. 11 No. 1
ISBN: 9999-D4
Publication Info: JMIC, 2002

Book Title: The 9/11 Commission Report - [Available Online]
ISBN: 0393326713
Publication Info: W.W. Norton & Company; (July 22, 2004)

Book Title: The Weekly Homeland Security Newsletter
ISBN: IS349 Site
Publication Info: http://www.homelandsecurity.org/bulletin/current_bulletin.htm

Book Title: Deterrence and Influence in Counter Terrorism: A Component in the War on Al Qaeda- [Available Online]
ISBN: 0833032860
Publication Info: RAND

 
 
 

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