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Article: Q. What's your major? A. Homeland security.(educational courses in homeland security)
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- Security Management
- Article date:
- July 1, 2007
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SINCE THE EMERGENCE of homeland security as a practical discipline, academia has offered both expertise and educational opportunity in the war on terror. In the latter case, however, most course study has fallen under traditional disciplines, with awards in homeland security limited to graduate certificates. That is slowly changing.
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Last year Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) in Richmond granted the country's first four bachelor's degrees in homeland security and emergency preparedness, and graduate degree study is springing up there and at other schools around the country.
The Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, ...