该课程提供一系列理论，实践和方法论课程，重点是各种形式的恐怖主义研究。该课程以教师的研究实力为基础，提供实质性课程，以解决当前恐怖主义和其他形式的次国家暴力，安全政策和实践，内战以及技术和安全关系的表现。我们希望我们的毕业生成为下一代安全专家和学者。为了实现这一目标，我们的博士课程从事学术教育和专业发展。这些相互关联的组件旨在为学生提供当代安全威胁各个方面的世界级教育，并应对这些挑战，同时创建安全专业人员社区。我们的总体目标是为博士生提供智力，概念，分析和理论工具，以了解二十一世纪安全威胁所带来的本质，影
UMass Lowell's doctoral degree in Criminology and Criminal Justice is an interdisciplinary, research-oriented degree designed to provide a theoretically grounded, methodologically sophisticated and statistically rigorous education.This curriculum provides for a sequence of courses in theory, practice and methodology with a focus on the study of terrorism in all its forms. The curriculum builds upon faculty research strengths and offers substantive courses which address current manifestations of terrorism and other forms of sub-state violence, security policy and practice, civil wars, and the nexus of technology and security.<br><br>We expect our graduates to be the next generation of security professional and scholars. In order to achieve this objective, our doctoral program engages in academic education and professional development. These interrelated components are designed to offer students a world-class education in the different facets of contemporary security threats and responses to these challenges, while creating a community of security professionals. Our overall goal is to provide doctoral students with the intellectual, conceptual, analytical and theoretical tools to understand the nature, implications, root causes and complex challenges posed by security threats in the twenty-first century, as well as the various policies and strategies which were developed to counter these threats. Thus, our students will be able to compete effectively both in the academic market (thus fill teaching positions in institutions of higher education) as well as in the private and governmental markets (thus fill positions in various policy oriented organizations and agencies).