Educational Resources in Homeland Security and Related Areas

Penn State College of Medicine: Master of Homeland Security in Public Health Preparedness

Penn State: Security and Risk Analysis

The Core of Homeland Security Curricula (PDF)

Naval Postgraduate School's masters program in Homeland Security

Homeland Security: The view from Public Administration: Source: Robert W. Smith (2005). What is homeland security? Developing a definition grounded in curricula. Journal of Public Affairs Education 11: 233-246.

The following are common core curriculum components:

• Legal and constitutional environment (federalism, state coercion, civil liberties, Patriot Act and legislative process, law enforcement)
• Organizational roles, planning, agency focus (DHS) (planning, organization theory, budget processes, organizational analysis [DHS])
• Policy implications (policy theory, policy design, consequence management)
• Emergency response/preparedness (first responders, infrastructure protection, emergency management, emergency preparedness, border/port patrol, sociology of disasters)
• Terrorism and counterterrorism (counterterrorism, asymmetric warfare, WMD, cyber attack, intelligence, deterrence theory, risk assessment)
• Military/Security policy (assessment, security policy, military response, rogue states)