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CSS848: Principles of Security Practices and Management
CSS 243: Principles of Security Practice and Management is a 3-credit unit course. It is a compulsory course for all postgraduate students of Criminology and Security Studies of the University. The course is recommended for any other student(s) particularly those in the School of Arts and Social Sciences, who may have interest in secur ity studies. The course can also be taken as elective or required course by other students whose main field(s) of discipline is not Criminology and Security Studies.
What Will You Learn?
The overall aim of CSS 243: Principles of Security Practice and Management is to introduce you to the principles of security management and practice by looking at the meaning of security and other prominent areas of inquiry and issues in the discourse of security management. Your understanding of fundamentals in security management will enable you to explain some basic concepts and approaches security studies.
In fact, the course will also expose you to various relevant issues in the study of security management as well as techniques, approaches and challenges to effective security management and strategic planning. CSS 243 is a very interesting course as it stimulates our understanding about security practice and management. It helps to expose us to some of the fundamental ways through which effective security management can be actualized.
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At the end of the course, you should be able to:
- Describe security and its types;
- Explain violence and violent crimes;
- Discuss domestic violence and ways to address it;
- Examine the theories of violence;
- Analyze the theory of crime control;
- Examine the various approaches to security management;
- Describe intelligence cycle
- Suggest counter-intelligence measures to prevent or mitigate attack from the foreign intelligence service;
- Illustrate the relationship between security personnel management and ability of security organization to meet its overall goals;
- Stress the importance of effective trauma management in security career;
- Clarify the impact of job stress on security personnel especially as it relates to service delivery;
- Discuss how REBT can help in managing trauma among security employee;
- Demonstrate the relevance of public relations in security business;
- Appreciate the importance of effective operational management and capacity planning in security sector;
- Analyze the growing security threat that assymetric aggression constitute and how it affects strategic planning;
- Evaluate the methods that can be adopted to counter guerilla threat; and
- Examine the relevance of fortification and manoeuvre tactics in security management.