Spring Break
University introduces homeland master's
By: Abid Mujtaba
Issue date: 11/14/07 Section: News
The tentative plan is that it will be a thesis program consisting of 36 hours with a non-thesis option. It will have six core courses and six electives. Final decisions on the make up of the program will be made by mid-spring by the steering committee.
The core courses expected in the program are courses in policy, science, engineering, technology and quantitative and qualitative research methods in homeland security.
The program will accept students with a bachelor's degree who are eligible for admission to the graduate school. The ICHS is also exploring the possibility of offering the program online to meet the growing demand.
A large number of the students enrolled in the certificate program are employees of the Department of Homeland Security improving their skill set. Possible employment for students earning their master's in Homeland Security Studies will be in homeland security at the local, state and federal level and "ultimately in private industry beginning to discover that homeland security is very important to them," McIntyre said.
Examples are big department stores, particularly safety and security in food production, and companies that own and operate critical infrastructure such as nuclear power plants.
Students studying at the Bush School will still be able to take courses in homeland security, but "students that want to get their [master's] degree [primarily] in Homeland Security will now be able to do so," said Sean O'Neil, a master's student in International Affairs at the Bush School who has earned a Certificate in Homeland Security.
"The Bush School, when it started, was a master's program based out of the political science department…until finally it developed into the Bush School," O'Neil said. "The ICHS master's program seems to be developing in the same way.
"There is a need for this type of curriculum where you have academic theory [along] with functional technical expertise so that graduates that come out of the program have an understanding of this dynamic field."
The core courses expected in the program are courses in policy, science, engineering, technology and quantitative and qualitative research methods in homeland security.
The program will accept students with a bachelor's degree who are eligible for admission to the graduate school. The ICHS is also exploring the possibility of offering the program online to meet the growing demand.
A large number of the students enrolled in the certificate program are employees of the Department of Homeland Security improving their skill set. Possible employment for students earning their master's in Homeland Security Studies will be in homeland security at the local, state and federal level and "ultimately in private industry beginning to discover that homeland security is very important to them," McIntyre said.
Examples are big department stores, particularly safety and security in food production, and companies that own and operate critical infrastructure such as nuclear power plants.
Students studying at the Bush School will still be able to take courses in homeland security, but "students that want to get their [master's] degree [primarily] in Homeland Security will now be able to do so," said Sean O'Neil, a master's student in International Affairs at the Bush School who has earned a Certificate in Homeland Security.
"The Bush School, when it started, was a master's program based out of the political science department…until finally it developed into the Bush School," O'Neil said. "The ICHS master's program seems to be developing in the same way.
"There is a need for this type of curriculum where you have academic theory [along] with functional technical expertise so that graduates that come out of the program have an understanding of this dynamic field."
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