The homeland security technology program will prepare students for employment in the growing field of cyberspace security, and counterterrorism analysis at the level of government, private industry, national and international agencies.

Graduates of the homeland security technology program will be prepared to work in a variety of job settings such as: intelligence analyst, private security, airport custom agent, law enforcement, FBI, Secret Service, customs investigators, special agents, military service, border patrol, counterterrorism analyst , staff analyst, analyst developer as well as working for the international organizations such as UN, Foreign Service Affairs (US Department of State).

Suggested Course Sequence

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First Semester		Credit Hours	Prerequisite
HLS121	Introduction to Emergency Management	3	-
HLS122	Intelligence and Homeland Security	3	-
HLS123	Homeland Defense and Crisis Management	3	-
ECA146	Introduction to Computer Networking	3	-
MTH125	College Algebra	4	MTH101 or Test
		16
Second Semester
ECA136	Principles of Information Security	3	ECA146
ECA137	Computer Crime and Investigation	3	ECA146
BIO127	Human Biology	4	-
HLS220	Weapons of Mass Destruction Awareness	3	HLS122
FST225	Hazardous Materials	3	-
		16
Summer Semester
ECA275	Ethical Hacking	3	ECA136
ENG124	College Composition	3	-
		6
Third Semester
COM121/123	Effective Speaking or Inter-group Communications	3	ENG124
HLS221	Terrorism and Homeland Defense	3	HLS123
CHM121	Gen, Org & Biol. Chemistry 1	4	-
ECA257	File Systems Analysis	3	ECA137
ECA256	Disaster Recovery and Incident Planning	3	ECA136
		16
Fourth Semester
HLS224	Emergency Response to Terrorism	3	HLS121
ACC236	Cyber Law & Ethics	3	ECA137
HLS222	Organizational Response & Networking Crisis Response	3	HLS122
HLS223	Conflict Management	3	ECA256
SOC225	Culture Diversity	3	ECA135
		15
	TOTAL CREDITS	69