This course addresses the Homeland Security learning outcomes marked in bold text.

Define and identify vulnerabilities, threats, and hazards
Assess risk
Plan for emergency action
Formulate prevention and mitigation strategies
Organize responses
Manage recovery options
Evaluate effectiveness

Course Objectives

By the conclusion of this course, students will be able to:

Summarize the legal aspects of terrorism and homeland security, including domestic, foreign, and international legislation and cases.
Discuss the broad topics of civil and criminal legal matters as well as public policy issues.
Analyze the topics that will be addressed, including but not limited to: definitional issues; statutory frameworks and offenses/prosecutions; military tribunals; intelligence collection, analysis, and sharing; political surveillance and antiterrorism; surveillance technologies; military/law enforcement overlap; civil liberties/national security balancing; state, federal and foreign (regional/international) law; immigration; private right of action; and freedom of expression/restrictions on the media.

Legal Aspects of Homeland Security & Terrorism

Credit Hours: 3

Description:This course covers the legal aspects of terrorism and homeland security including domestic, foreign, and international legislation and cases. Other civil and criminal legal matters and public policy relating to terrorism/homeland security will be addressed.

Pre-requisites: LEJA 331 (Survey of Homeland Security) or permission of instructor/director.

Restrictions/Suggestions: High speed Internet access required for this web course.

Course Outline

Refer to the table below for specific information pertaining to your school.
If you are a student at	Course name and number	Contact
Chicago State University	Contact your campus coordinator	Dr. Marian Perkins Assistant Professor Office HWH 325 773-995-2233
Eastern Illinois University	Contact your campus coordinator	Sue Harvey Registrar gsharvey@eiu.edu 217-581-3831
Governors State University	Contact your campus coordinator	Veronica Williams Director, Extended University v-williams@govst.edu 708-534-3143
Illinois State University	Contact your campus coordinator	Dr. Marilyn Morrow Chair-Health Sciences mmorrow@ilstu.edu 309-438-8806
Northern Illinois University	Contact your campus coordinator	Linda Traff Assistant Director, Credit ltraff@niu.edu 815-753-8735 Cathy Cradduck Campus Coordinator ccradduc@niu.edu 815-753-5008
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville	Contact your campus coordinator	Laura Strom Registrar lstrom@siue.edu 618-650-3330
Western Illinois University	LEJA 414, Legal Aspects of Homeland Security and Terrorism	Dr. Nancy Parsons Professor, Health Sciences NP-Parsons@wiu.edu 309-298-1746