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Year One Curriculum

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  • 720.604 Ethics of Belief

     

    Students explore concepts such as logic, epistemology, and ethics and how the relationship between them influences the gathering and analysis of information and subsequent decision making. They develop and enhance skills necessary to conduct basic and complex analysis, routinely and in crisis situations. Through discussion, debate, readings, and research, students seek to answer several important questions. How much data or evidence should one collect and consider before drawing a conclusion? Can one base a conclusion solely on data or does it always reflect influences such as beliefs, will, politics, history, and other factors? To what degree is an employee accountable for undesirable consequences of a thoughtful, well-researched, logical decision? What is the difference between belief and knowledge and why does this matter when drawing conclusions?

    Notes: This course is only available to students enrolled in Division of Public Safety Leadership programs. (3 credits)

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  • 720.635 Leadership and Organizational Behavior

    Effective employees routinely take the “pulse” of their organization and know what it means. They develop a “sixth sense” about what works and does not work within their organization and the community they serve. Students assess how people in various positions influence organizational behavior and the systems – individual, group, and cultural – that contribute to the successful operation of today’s multifaceted service agencies. Through readings, case studies, and simulations, students compare organizational behaviors, such as internal communication, quality control, and marketing, to activities in their own agencies. They employ proven and innovative approaches to assessing organizations and developing ways to accomplish organizational tasks and goals. This course includes a field experience.

    Notes: This course is only available to students enrolled in Division of Public Safety Leadership programs. (3 credits)

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  • 720.713 Managing Differences

    Successful people understand differences that go beyond traditional or stereotypical diversity-related issues. They monitor, analyze, and manage differences stemming from internal hierarchy, incompatible functions and ideals, conflicting agencies and governments, and other differences. If ignored, these differences may erupt into misinterpretation, misperception, inappropriate communication, or other behavior that harms people and institutions. Students assess differences in goals, values, beliefs, motive, function, rank, religion, race, gender, and personality. They discuss factors that influence and drive both tolerance and intolerance. Students apply techniques for overcoming behaviors that block individual, community, and organizational effectiveness in diverse settings. Through readings, case studies, and group activities, students compare various strategies for providing quality service to diverse internal and external communities.

    Notes: This course is only available to students enrolled in Division of Public Safety Leadership programs. (3 credits)

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  • 720.609 Analytical Writing

    The ability to justify and present an analytical conclusion in clear, succinct prose is essential for anyone supplying policy-makers with information they need to formulate a decision. Students consider traditional and innovative methods of intelligence briefing, focusing on the difference between accuracy and truth in nonfiction writing and how facts are woven into a narrative form. Students prepare written reports and presentations on a variety of topics and, in doing so, construct narratives, project credibility, convey recommendations, and reinforce key messages. All students are screened to assess writing ability.

    Notes: This course is only available to students enrolled in Division of Public Safety Leadership programs. (3 credits)

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  • 720.745 Information and Telecommunication Systems

    Technology is a tool that drives information exchange, security, intelligence analysis, and service. It is not a human problem solver. In today’s intelligence analysis environment, technology has gone beyond a solution to become a challenge. It is no longer sufficient for analysts simply to be computer literate. They can no longer trust that an existing software package or piece of hardware is doing all that is needed. They must be diligent in questioning technology and be “hands-on” in decision-making processes on what and how it is used to solve problems and sustain and improve efficiency and the quality of information. Students scrutinize the “good, bad, and ugly” of how technology is being applied to situations and organizations. Students learn to apply technology to reporting and presenting information. This course is conducted in a computer lab.

    Notes: This course is only available to students enrolled in Division of Public Safety Leadership programs. (3 credits)

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  • 720.752 Strategic Thinking: Concept, Policy, Plan, and Practice

    Strategic thinking sets a steady course for an individual task or an entire organization. It aids in confronting change, coping with crises, planning for transitions, and envisioning alternatives and new possibilities. It sustains people, programs, and assignments through changes in administration, shifts in demand for service, and political influence. Students discuss and debate strategic decisions that shaped modern history, including the use of military power to serve political ends. They examine the development of warfare from the 19th century to the present, emphasizing strategic and theoretical concepts. Through readings and discussion, students develop their strategic thinking skills and apply them to a myriad of case studies. They apply step-by-step methods to developing and implementing a strategy for their work unit. Students apply an array of techniques to assessing, modifying, and presenting strategic plans and motivating others to participate in the strategic planning process. They also examine their role in their agency’s and/or client’s strategic plan.

    Notes: This course is only available to students enrolled in Division of Public Safety Leadership programs. (3 credits)

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  • 720.718 Terrorism: Concepts, Threats and Delivery

    Students scrutinize the changing face of terrorism and terrorist threat, from a global endeavor to garner support for a cause, to small radical cells bent on causing harm for the sake of harm. They consider terrorism as a phenomenon and examine the counterforce options and constraints used to prevent and defeat terrorists. Myths, misperceptions, and hype are distinguished from fact. Students gain the tools necessary to identify and focus on legitimate threat to guide clients to address people, time, location, and behavior - the things most critical to preventing heinous terrorist acts from occurring. Through scenarios and case studies, students exhibit leadership skills in countering terrorist activity, helping other leaders and the agencies they serve maintain perspective, and minimizing panic and alarmist reaction to terrorist threat. Students identify and apply measured responses to the information they gain on crises and potential crises.

    Notes: This course is only available to students enrolled in Division of Public Safety Leadership programs. (3 credits)

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