Certificate in Private Security
This multi-disciplinary certificate takes the fundamentals of Private Security and combines them with various aspects of strategic security and executive protection. Students may tailor the certificate’s academic focus by pairing any three courses. This may be repeated to receive additional certificates by selecting three different courses. This certificate covers ethics and etiquette. It also covers the foundations of security along with the specifics of offensive versus defensive security, vehicular and building security. It can also be tailored to meet the needs of the protection professional through courses in working with Principals at their office, work, and other offsite venues.
Outcomes
Upon completion of this certificate, students will be able to do the following (the learning outcomes will vary depending on the courses chosen but would include):
- Examine the history and professionalization of private security.
- Analyze the business of the private security industry.
- Explore private security concepts, tools, systems integration, and law.
- Analyze premises and business security.
- Explore personal, employment-related security, and homeland security.
Could also include
- Research principles, concepts, techniques, rules, and ethics in the intelligence, counterterrorism and protection professions
- Research, describe and articulate the practice of building security through planning and designing.
- Research information necessary to conduct a proper advance, security plan, and risk assessment.
- Describe security advance planning in the context of protective security operations and identify actions and resources to accomplish an effective advance
- Demonstrate the fundamental concepts of executive protection, including agent-client relations, vehicle security, threat assessment, office and residential security, basic team management and communications, and advance work
- Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of operating defensively and reactively, as well as offensively & proactively.
- Research and evaluate the importance of the “mechanics” and subtleties of professional protective driving.
- Explain proper social interaction for formal and informal situations as encountered by a security professional.
COURSE LISTING
Required Courses
CJ2240 Intro to Private Security
Students complete 3 courses from the list below.
PHIL400 Ethics of Security and Counterterrorism
PRO385 Etiquette and Rapport
PRO422 Building Security
PRO430 Travel and Hospitals
PRO432 Principal’s Office and Residence
PRO433 Off-site Visits
PRO466 Advance Work
PRO494 Essentials of Executive Protection
SEC305 Offensive v. Defensive Security: Understanding the
Broader Security Field
SEC320 Foundations of the Security Industry
SEC326 Foundations of Vehicular Security
SEC366 Managing the Security Organization
Course availability is subject to minimum class size requirements.