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Apr 23, 2024
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CRJ 300 - Perspectives of Homeland Security
Last Date of Approval: Spring 2019
3 Credits
Total Lecture Hours: 45
Course Description:
This course is designed for students majoring in criminal justice. Terrorism has captured global attention to a degree without historical parallel. This course explores the events of 9/11 and beyond. In an uncertain world that has emerged since 9/11, intergovernmental organizations, national governments, policy analysts, law enforcement groups, scholars, and society at large, are all faced with the arrival of difficult times that challenge older notions about international terrorism. At the same time, recent developments on the American scene remind us, despite unprecedented scope of the 9/11 catastrophes, that homegrown terrorism and the extremist beliefs that accompany it remain a threat to public order in the United States. This course will explore these domestic groups and their ideologies. This course will help students refine their critical thinking skills as they evaluate various topics and concepts while searching for underlying connections between the concepts, which is a skill that should be beneficial in criminal justice careers.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: none
Mode(s) of Instruction: traditional/face to face, online
Credit for Prior Learning: This course offers an opportunity for students to earn Credit for Prior Learning for skills that they have brought with them to Iowa Central. For more information, please ask the instructor and see the Iowa Central Community College catalog.
Course Fees: none
Common Course Assessment(s): none
Student Learning Outcomes and Objectives:
Student Learning Outcomes:
- Describe the impact of 9/11 on American strategies for security.
- Explain the legislative impact on American law as a result of homeland security issues.
- Explain the impact that 9/11 has had on local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies.
- Appraise individual awareness and preparedness in lue of local, state, or national disasters or emergencies.
Objectives:
- Survey the threat of international terrorism in the USA.
- Examine the events of 9/11 and the response to 9/11.
- Discuss the Department of Homeland Security.
- Explore the history of terrorism in America.
- Discuss the USA Patriot Act of 2001.
- Discuss the Homeland Security Act of 2002
- Identify domestic terror groups at work in the US.
- Explain police strategies, operations, and tactics regarding terrorism.
- Appraise individual preparedness and awareness in the US.
- Illustrate skills needed to survive a disaster or emergency.
- Receive CERT training ( Community Emergency Response Teams)
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