Bachelor of Arts in Homeland Security Corporate Management Assessment

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This program prepares corporate managers and homeland security professionals to serve in a variety of industries and corporate settings and work with vulnerability assessment, risk management and other vital areas in homeland security awareness.

Requirements for Entrance into the Program
Students must:

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Program Details

This online program consists of a 45 credit hour major, 39 credit hours of General Education, 9 credit hours of Supporting Courses and 31 credit hours of Elective Credit for a total of 124 hours for the degree.

Benefits
Midway’s HSCMA program is unique in the nation and is believed to be the first of its kind. Not a law enforcement or criminal justice-specific program, this degree will appeal to those in management positions who wish to work with compliance of local, state and federal regulations and community members in matters of safety.

Skills
Graduates qualifications will include:

  1. Strategic planning for organizational change and development (empowering and re-engineering) for corporate security in the changed environment consequent on the targeting of America by terrorist groups.
  2. Coordination of compliance with public policies and regulations relating to homeland security, whether originating at the federal, state or local levels.
  3. Management of corporate interaction with first-responders from local and national law enforcement, fire safety, rescue, public health, military and governmental sectors.
  4. Development and implementation of procedures to screen personnel during the hiring process and establish security procedures to protect employees, visitors and customers, as well as the corporation’s facilities, resources and processes.
  5. Continuity of operations planning to manage the consequences of terrorist attacks on the corporation, its locality and/or its suppliers.
  6. Management of design and implementation of corporate cyber-security protocols and procedures to protect corporate records, data and transactions.

Quality and Convenience
The Bachelor of Arts in Homeland Security Corporate Management Assessment is considered a professional business degree program. It is a degree completion program offered in a cohort format.

This online degree completion program is convenient for students with busy schedules who appreciate the accelerated format and the anytime, anywhere availability.

Midway College is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools/Commission on Colleges (SACS/COC) to grant baccalaureate and associate degrees.

Growth potential
The Homeland Security profession is one of the most challenging and cutting-edge fields in the modern business world. The war on terrorism following the attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001, is an asymmetric conflict unlike prior conflicts, creating an immediate need in industry and the corporate world for qualified professionals to assess vulnerability and design and implement and manage security programs that are compliant, current and dynamic.

Job opportunities
The student who graduates with this degree will be prepared for Homeland Security Corporate Management and Assessment in many major areas of the professional sphere, including such fields as:

  1. Computer industry / Security of computerized data
  2. Finances / corporations and agencies, insurers
  3. Food-related industries / agriculture and horticulture, food manufacture, food preparation and food service
  4. Utilities / power generation and water purification
  5. Healthcare / hospitals, medical offices and other facilities
  6. Manufacturing / industrial complexes, advanced manufacturing facilities
  7. Public transportation and travel
  8. Retail / multi-retailer shopping malls, national and transnational retail chains
  9. Security / Public agencies tasked with homeland security for their localities or regions
  10. Import/export / corporations that transport goods nationally and internationally
  11. Outsourcing / corporations reliant on overseas suppliers, processors or customers
  12. Real estate / commercial management corporations, residential communities

Other details
This unique program features cohort-based instruction aimed at individuals who have at least two years of college credit. The cohort structure ensures that students follow a specific rotation of courses in their program.

The student typically will have completed 40-60 hours of college credit before commencement of professional course work. Exceptions to these criteria may be made on a case-by-case basis as judged by a program admissions committee. The modular sequence of the upper-level courses recognizes the needs and characteristics of adult learners while emphasizing themes such as problem solving, critical thinking, self-analysis, communication, and ethical decision-making.

Specifically, this program is designed to equip corporate homeland security professionals with the knowledge and skills necessary to function as managers of corporate or industrial security programs. Our graduates are competent in state-of-the-art vulnerability assessment, risk management, consequence management, disaster recovery, and continuity techniques and technologies.

Today’s Corporate Homeland Security Managers must not only respond to the challenge of recruiting and retaining talent, they must also understand federal, state, and local regulations, processes and resources so that they may assure not only corporate compliance but also corporate responsibility to the local community.

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