Strategic Security and Protection Management Bachelor’s Degree
There’s a growing need for professionals who can recognize and respond to threats across industries, workplaces, and countries. Develop the skills you need to assess and protect property and people with the online Bachelor of Science degree in Strategic Security and Protection Management from National American University’s Henley Putnam School of Strategic Security. This program is also an excellent foundation if you want to pursue the online Strategic Security and Protection Management Master of Science degree.
Online Strategic Security and Protection Management Bachelor’s Degree Program Overview
Henley Putnam’s strategic security degree program applies objective information on the personal, local, and organizational developments that can deter and prevent conflict. You will develop skills in strategy development, strategic analysis, and assessment for jobs such as a strategic advisor, security analyst, or security manager.
As a graduate of the program, you will be able to:
- Use critical thinking and problem-solving skills to apply preventive, deterrent and response actions related to strategic security and protection management subjects.
- Assess information from a variety of sources on issues of strategic operations and protection management.
- Communicate clearly in a variety of mediums to key security stakeholders.
- Work collaboratively in diverse groups to identify issues in strategic operations and protection management.
- Assess ethical and civic-minded approaches to challenges in the current security environment.
Online Strategic Security and Protection Management Bachelor’s Degree Classes and Curriculum
The Online Strategic Security and Protection Management bachelor’s degree program consists of the following class requirements: major core, open electives, and general education core. These classes total 180 credits.
All academic courses are 100% online and subject to minimum class size requirements.
Major Core
49.5 credits
Support Core and Open Electives
40.5 credits
General Education
90 credits
Course availability is subject to minimum class size requirements.
Online Strategic Security and Protection Management Bachelor’s Degree Tuition and Fees
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Online Strategic Security and Protection Management Bachelor’s Degree Career Outcomes
Your skills in strategy development, strategic analysis, interviewing, critical thinking, and assessment will position you for jobs such as a strategic advisor, security analyst, or security manager. Careers could include:
- Investigators
- Corporate and Private Security Specialist
- Dignitary Protective Service Officer
- Physical Security Manager
Who Is a Good Candidate for the online Strategic Security and Protection Management Degree?
- Entry-level job seekers: Do you want to learn to identify threats to long-term goals and essential aims, serve the greater good, and prevent disruptions to society?
- Strategic Security and Protection Management professionals: Do you want to professionalize your skills and abilities, improve your critical thinking, and learn the essential skills of your discipline?
- Military servicemembers: Did you work in security, law enforcement or military police, investigation or dignitary protection?
Course Listing
INT305 – Advanced Critical Thinking and Logic
PHIL400 – Ethics of Security and Counterterrorism
PRO375 – History of Executive/Dignitary Protection
PRO385 – Etiquette and Rapport
PRO398 – Fundamentals of Threat Assessment
PRO494 – Essentials of Executive Protection
SEC320 – Foundations of the Security Industry
SEC340 – Effective Writing for the Security Professional
SEC344 – Protective Security Law
SEC360 – Information Security
SEC366 – Managing the Security Organization
Choose any three (3) PRO or SEC courses not used as Major Core.
Must take all major core courses before enrolling in any of the major support core courses below.
PRO380 – Conflict Resolution
PRO405 – Consequence Management
PRO422 – Building Security
PRO430 – Travel and Hospitals
PRO432 – Principal’s Office and Residence
PRO433 – Off-site Visits
PRO466 – Advance Work
SEC305 – Offensive v. Defensive Security: Understanding the Broader Security Field
SEC326 – Foundations of Vehicular Security
SEC375 – Workplace Violence, Workplace Security
SEC452 – Infiltration Techniques
SEC486 – Bomb Threat Management
Choose any six courses.
Students may also include any course from support core courses if not previously taken as a major support core
CI3710 – Internet Security
CI3715 – Cybercrime and Information Systems
CI3725 – Network Security
CJ2240 – Introduction to Private Security
CJ2700 – Cybercrime in Criminal Justice
CJ3005 – Gangs in America
CJ3020/PL 3020 – Serial Killers and the Law
CJ3030/PL 3030 – Hate Crimes and the Law
CJ3050 – Loss Prevention
CJ3400 – Constitutional Law
CJ4000/PS 4000 – Psychology and the Law
CJ4450 – Security Operations Theory
CJ4500 – Homeland Security and Terrorism
INT300 – Fundamentals of Intelligence
INT310 – Fundamentals of Analysis
INT315 – Open Source Research
INT320 – Propaganda and Disinformation
INT330 – Writing for the Intelligence Professional
INT379 – History of Intelligence, Part 1
INT380 – History of Intelligence, Part 2
INT390 – Covert Action
INT400 – Counterintelligence
INT401 – Interrogation and Interviewing Techniques
INT440 – Technical Surveillance
INT445 – Operational Security
INT460 – Clandestine and Secure Communications
INT476 – Intelligence Collection
INT477 – Collection Management
NUC350 – Principles of Grand Strategy
NUC410 – Weapons Systems
NUC415 – Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Weapons
PRO500DC – Advanced Executive Protection
PRO595DC – Advanced Protection Operations
PRO690DC – Advanced Threat Assessment
SEC665DC – Cyber Security
TCT306 – Media and Terrorism
TCT310 – Psychology of Violence
TCT390 – Foundations of Terrorism
TCT395 – Counterterrorism
TCT396 – Terrorist Techniques
TCT410 – Lone Wolf Terrorism
TCT420 – Psychology of Fear
TCT425 – Religious Extremism
TCT430 – Ethno/Nationalist Terrorism
TCT435 – Terrorist Support Networks
TCT440 – Islamism and Terrorism
Communications
EN1150 – Composition I
EN1300 – Composition II
EN2100 Speech OR
EN2150 Interpersonal Professional Communication
Science (4.5)
SC – Science Elective
Humanities
HU2000 – Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
Behavioral/Social Science
Behavioral/Social Science Elective
Mathematics
MA2000 – Quantitative Reasoning
General Education
CS1202 – Strategies for Professionals OR
CS1204 – Advanced Strategies for Professionals
CS1302 – Consumer Mathematics
SEC105 – The Foundation, Functions, and Future of Strategic Security
Open Electives
Course availability is subject to minimum class size requirements.
