Course

Course Summary
Credit Type:
Course
ACE ID:
CDSE-0024
Organization's ID:
ED502
Organization:
Center for Development of Security Excellence
Location:
Online
Length:
16 weeks (35 hours)
Dates Offered:
Credit Recommendation & Competencies
Level Credits (SH) Subject
Graduate 3 strategic planning
Description

Objective:

The course objective is to provide security professionals with an enhanced understanding of the bureaucratic world in which they must deal with real-world problems and challenges—a world that enables, defines, and limits their ability to execute the security mission within the DOD area of worldwide responsibility.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Analyze the concepts of bureaucratic politics
  • Analyze the bureaucratic politics model for national security policymaking
  • Analyze a plan for interagency cooperation within the DoD
  • Analyze the national security responsibilities of the United States Congress
  • Analyze a template for working with other organizations in the area of security
  • Evaluate the organizational structure and its security policy, according to the criteria developed within the Department of Defense
  • Evaluate the security philosophy and structure of the Departments of State and Energy
  • Evaluate the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security
  • Evaluate the types of security needed for a base protection scenario according to CONUS and OCONUS regulations
  • Evaluate at least three of the four DoD security disciplines and special security functions with Homeland Security’s major Components
  • Evaluate the federal, state, and local law enforcement bureaucracies within bureaucracies, using a nuclear security scenario
  • Create a case study of a U.S. government security agency

General Topics:

  • Course overview
  • Introductions: instructor and fellow students
  • Bureaucratic Politics Part I: Introduction to this theoretical field of study
  • Bureaucratic Politics Part II: Core Concepts
  • Bureaucratic Politics, Part III: Focus on the Department of Defense
  • Overview of the U.S. Government’s Organizational Structure
  • Developing a Template for Understanding Federal Agency Security Programs
  • The Structure of Security Programs I – Security Policy Development in the Department of Defense
  • The Structure of Security Programs II – Security Programs in the Departments of State and Energy
  • The Structure of Security Programs III – Security Programs in the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security
  • Physical Security I - Base Protection
  • Reading
  • Physical Security II - Securing the U.S. Homeland
  • Bureaucracies within Bureaucracies: Nuclear Security
  • Student Presentations
  • End-of-Course Evaluation
Instruction & Assessment

Instructional Strategies:

  • Audio Visual Materials
  • Case Studies
  • Discussion
  • Learner Presentations
  • Lectures

Methods of Assessment:

  • Case Studies
  • Examinations
  • Performance Rubrics (Checklists)
  • Presentations

Minimum Passing Score:

80%
Supplemental Materials