Certificates

Graduate Certificates (12 credits)

 

National Security

For students who may not be ready to commit to a full-length graduate program, or for those who already hold a master's degree but wish to pursue additional work in the area of National Security, the Graduate Certificate provides an alternative. Application for the Graduate Certificate requires the Director's approval

Required Courses

• NSP 601 National Security Programs Architecture and Mission
• NSP 602 Personnel Security Programs
• NSP 604 Securing National Security Information Systems
• NSP 642 Integrated Studies of the Intelligence and Counterintelligence Communities or suitable elective approved by the director.

National Security Administration

This certificate program is specifically designed to help public safety professionals build strategic management skills without commitment to the full thirty-six credit master's degree. (Should you decide to pursue the master's program, credits earned in the certificate program are fully and easily transferable.)

Required Courses

• NSP 630 Risk Assessment and Management in National Security
  This course explores the concept and management of risk in society, both currently and historically.
• NSP 646 The Structure of National Security Decisions
  This course examines the intuitive, structured, and deliberative nature of national security decisions.
• NSP 647 The Economics of National Security
  In our dangerous and increasingly networked world, we have learned that safety and security are not free. But exactly what resources should our society allocate to national security, and how should such decisions be made? These and other questions will be explored in this extensive examination of national security economics.
• NSP 648 Achieving Excellence in National Security Administration
  This course surveys the methods used by effective private-sector administrators and managers to achieve their strategic objectives. The survey will be supplemented by focused conversations about how these well researched and practiced methods could be applied to administrative challenges within the national security enterprise.