Homeland Security MPA Online Specialization Overview
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Earn the Credential Needed to Pursue Leadership Roles in Homeland Security
Be a recognized leader in this fast-growing, integral sector of America’s defense infrastructure. Anna Maria College’s online Master of Public Administration degree with a Homeland Security specialization gives you the disaster prevention and response expertise needed to protect your country, your community, and your fellow citizens.
Homeland security experts protect and oversee the nation’s people, systems, and environment; aid in disaster recovery efforts; and assist in mitigating loss of life following terrorist attacks, natural disasters, and other crisis situations. Men and women who hold positions with the Department of Homeland Security and other federal agencies, private corporations, or nonprofit organizations help reduce the vulnerabilities of the nation and minimize the damage from catastrophic hazards.
Anna Maria College’s online Homeland Security MPA online program will prepare you to meet the demands and challenges facing today’s homeland security professionals. And because our public administration master’s program is delivered 100% online and available to distance learners anywhere in the United States, you can learn how to address homeland security issues from any location and at times most convenient to you.
Program Details
- 10-20 months
- $719.26 per credit
- 36 credit hours
- 4 specialization courses
- Transfer up to six credits
- No GRE
- 8-week courses
- Mid-career option
Specialized Homeland Security MPA Curriculum
Homeland security leaders must anticipate, prepare, prevent, and react to numerous situations with a clear understanding of ethics, psychology, public communication, and other critical skills and competencies. Anna Maria’s Homeland Security specialization brings you the most relevant knowledge and techniques needed to take a leading role in protecting the public, including risk analysis, international/domestic threat detection, inter-agency coordination, and public policy analysis.
Homeland Security MPA Course Sample:
This course explains the history of building national security, its mission and its role. Through a consideration of best practices and the balance between security and liberty, it examines the organizational structures and resources required to defend the homeland. This course provides an overview of DHS operations including mission, operational planning, execution and evaluation, security and communications, intelligence collection and reporting, critical infrastructure protection, and ethical, social and economic issues including the need to address victimization and fear.
An analysis of the threat of domestic terrorism in the United States from hate groups, Eco terrorist, “lone wolves” and extremist groups.
This course examines, through a risk and vulnerability assessment of the global terrorism phenomenon, various international groups’ culture, history, ideology and motivation, capabilities, methods and activities within contexts of political, ethical, social and legal issues. Included in this examination is the emergence and growth of extremist and terrorist groups such as AlQaeda, Hamas, and other terrorist networks. Particular attention will be focused on U.S. foreign policy, media impact, intelligence cycles, acts and procedures at governmental, state, and community levels.
What Can You Do with a Public Administration Degree in Homeland Security Administration?
Agencies need trained homeland security leaders right now. Here are just a few examples of agencies in need of professionals with specific homeland security skills:
- The Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Central Intelligence Agency
- U.S. Department of Homeland Security
- State law enforcement agencies
- Emergency management agencies
- Local police departments and sheriffs’ offices
Take a look at the different components that make up the U.S. Department of Homeland Security positions in this industry, as well as other homeland security job opportunities.
Explore CareersLearn from Homeland Security Specialists
Professors in the Master’s in Public Administration online program and Homeland Security specialization come directly from the industry with decades of combined experience and priceless career advice.
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Professions within the public sector reach far and wide, across many industries. Anna Maria’s online master’s in public administration offers the choice of diverse specializations that give you critical knowledge in your specific area of interest: