国土安全证书旨在使用全灾害应急管理模型对学生进行教育，旨在使未来的公共管理专业人员做好应对所有自然，意外和人为灾害的准备。成功完成该计划后，学生将：•展示出对各种自然灾害，技术危害和恐怖主义的缓解，防范，应对和恢复策略的理解。在联邦，州和/或地方级别设计和修改计划和计划，以反映与国土安全的法定和总统指示相关的不断发展的战略政策问题。分析恐怖组织的倾向性，以预测最有可能面对民族国家，我们的州和我们地区的恐怖威胁的风险，类型和数量级。
The Graduate Certificate in Homeland Security is designed to educate students using an all-hazards emergency management model and is meant to prepare future public administration professionals to cope with all natural, accidental and man made hazards. Upon successful completion of this program, students will: Demonstrate an understanding of mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery strategies for a broad range of natural hazards, technological hazards, and terrorism. Design and modify plans and programs at federal, state, and/or local levels to reflect the evolving strategic policy issues associated with a statutory and presidential direction for homeland security. Analyze terrorist groups proclivities in order to forecast the risks, types, and orders of magnitude of terrorist threats most likely to confront the nation-state, our state and our region.Develop policies, procedures, and protocols to allow seamless agency integration from prevention to incident response and recovery scenarios.