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Master of Arts in Security Management

 Graduate Catalog | Master's

The Master of Security Management degree offers the security management professional the opportunity to study various aspects of security, from international to informational. Students examine and analyze the principles, theories, and application of security at the graduate level. Graduates of this program typically pursue careers in federal or local government civil service, general public or private management, military service, law enforcement, and private security.

Degree Program Objectives 
In addition to the institutional and degree level learning outcomes objectives, the Master of Arts in Security Management also seeks the following specific learning outcomes of its graduates.  With reference to each of the respective areas of security management, graduates in this degree program will be able to:

  • Recognize and critically analyze the various forms of liability associated with the security management industry.
  • Provide cost effective measures for architectural security design for facilities, airport security, and critical infrastructures.
  • Integrate and adapt security concepts and services from traditional approaches to address vulnerabilities to new technologies.
  • Evaluate the technologies of security systems, information security, and asset protection methodologies, and construct a reasonable view through critical thinking, to draw logical conclusions towards objective perspectives.
  • Assess the security function as it pertains to complex specializations in safety, safeguarding sensitive assets, and conducting vulnerability assessments.
  • Relate and associate historical, economic, equity and social perspectives of security measures and associate them to contemporary needs of protection and loss prevention.
  • Apply the principles of scientific management to security management as a unique discipline.
  • Apply the concepts of professional and ethical behavior to security programs and organizations.

Degree Program Requirements

Core Courses (Select 18 semester hours)
  • RC507 / CMRJ505 - Research Methods in Criminal Justice and Security
  • CR533 / SCMT507 - Assets Protection and Loss Prevention Management
  • CR508 / SCMT508 - Evaluation of Security Programs
  • CR509 / SCMT509 - Contemporary Issues in Security Management
  • CR540 / SCMT510 - Security Management Ethics
  • CR553 / SCMT553 - Security Program Administration
Major Courses (Select 15 semester hours)

Students must select five courses from the list below. 

  • LC529 / SCMT529 - International Terrorism
  • CR546 / SCMT531- International Security Management
  • CR536 / SCMT536 - Protective Services
  • CR537 / SCMT537 - Computer Crime
  • CR538 / SCMT538 - Industrial Espionage
  • CR544 / SCMT544 - Security Architecture
  • CR545 / SCMT545 - Airport Security Design
  • CR552 / SCMT552 - Physical Security Systems Design
  • NS510 / HLSS501 - Homeland Defense
  • CR601 / CMRJ601 - Cases in Executive Decision Making
  • CR690 / CMRJ690 - Independent Study Criminal Justice and Security
Graduate Electives (Select 3 semester hours)

From other courses not taken to meet required, core, or major requirements.


End of Program Requirement - Select either Comprehensive Exam OR Capstone 
  • CR701 / SCMT698 - Comprehensive Exam [0 semester hours} - Taken once all other requirements have been met unless thesis is taken
  • CR792 / SCMT699 - Master’s Capstone Seminar in Security Management [3 semester hours] - The Master's Capstone will will satisfy the Elective requirement

Total hours: 36 semester hour


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