Getting Started
Introduction:
This course consists of reading and written assignments. Take time to READ and UNDERSTAND the material in the text. Before long you will start developing a security "sixth sense" which will grow to the degree that you integrate and apply the subject matter. Also, your understanding of the material will be enhanced by reading and applying the Chapter Goal and Objectives and completing the assignments found on the Lecture page.
Required Text: Fischer/Green, Introduction to Security, 7th ed., Elsevier, 2004. This is a new text!!! Please don't buy the 6th or earlier edition; you'll be wasting your money.
Course Description: This course examines the nature of the security management profession. It studies principles and major managerial concepts in asset protection, loss control, and crime prevention.
Course Objectives:- We will learn some of the history of the security management field and profession.
- We will learn about some of the past and current problems and issues related to the security management profession.
- We will learn about various concepts in prevention, protection, investigation and surveys inherent in the management of security.
- We will obtain a basic knowledge of the principles of security administration as well as the policies and resources necessary to achieve security management objectives.
- We will study some of the special areas of focus for general and specific areas of focus by security management professionals.
