Post Graduate Diploma in Security Management
Course Overview
Physical security over past decades has become increasingly more difficult for organizations. Technology and computer environments now allow more compromises to occur due to increased vulnerabilities
The main aim of this course is to expose you to the basic concepts, issues, approaches and practice that have attracted a great attention among scholars and policy makers in security management. The study also throws its search-light on the issues in security discourse, which have continued to attract growing attention among scholars in security studies. These issues have remained subjects, which have been baptized with several conceptual and theoretical positions of scholars.
The main aim of this course is to expose you to the basic concepts, issues, approaches and practice of security management.
MODULE 1: Introduction to Security Management
Unit 1: Meaning of Security
Unit 2: Discourse on Violence & Violent Crime
Unit 3: Domestic Violence
Unit 4: Theories of Violence
Unit 5: Theory of Crime Control
Module 2: Approaches to Security
Unit 1: Approaches to Security Management
Unit 2: Meaning of Intelligence
Unit 3: Intelligence Collection and Disciplines
Unit 4: Intelligence Analysis and Evaluation
Unit 4: Counter-Intelligence and Intelligence Security Management
MODULE 3: Management of Security Personnel
Unit 1: Security Personnel Management I
Unit 2: Security Personnel Management II
Unit 3: Management of Job Stress among Security Personnel
Unit 4: Trauma Management in Security Career: REBT
Unit 5: Public Relations Management in Security Sector
MODULE 4: Operational Management and Capacity planning in Security Sector
Unit 1: Operational Management and Capacity planning in Security Sector
Unit 2: Issue of Asymmetric Aggression in Strategic Planning
Unit 3: Guerrilla Warfare and Tactical Measures to Counter-Guerilla
Unit 4: Relevance of Fortification Tactic in Security Management
Unit 5: Maneuver Tactic in Defense and Security Management
MODULE 5: Forms of Security
Unit 1: Security: Meaning and Approaches
Unit 2: Forms of Security I
Unit 3: Forms of Security II
Unit 4: Forms of Security III
Unit 5: Simulation in Security Planning and Management
MODULE 6: Security Threats
Unit 1: Meaning & Types of Security Threat I: Natural Threats
Unit 2: Meaning & Types of Security Threat II: Manmade Threats
Unit 3: Information Warfare as a Security Threat
Unit 4: Arms Production and Proliferation as a Potential Threat to Security
Unit 5: War as a Security Threat
MODULE 7: Safety Measures in Security Situations
Unit 1: Safety Measures to Management of Natural Threats
Unit 2: Safety Measures to the Management of Manmade Threats I
Unit 3: Safety Measures to the Management of Manmade Threats II
Unit 4: Civil Security: Meaning and Approaches I
Unit 5: Civil Security: Meaning and Approaches II
MODULE 8: Intelligence in Security Management
Unit 1: Meaning of Intelligence
Unit 2: Intelligence Collection and Disciplines
Unit 3: Intelligence Analysis and Evaluation
Unit 4: Counter Intelligence
Unit 5: Data Mining and Automated Data Analysis
MODULE 9: Roles, Treatment and Rights of Victims of Crime
Unit 1: The Role and Characteristics of Victims of Crime
Unit 2: Psychological Impact of Victimization
Unit 3: Treatment of Victims in the Criminal Justice System
Unit 4: Provisions, Construction and Enforcement of Compensation to Victims of Crime
Unit 5: Victim Assistance and Needs
Unit 6: International Rights of Victim
MODULE 10: Communication Skills
Participants will be required to submit 10 assignments, research paper and one final examination for the period of 12 months to demonstrate their understanding of the course content. Assignments account for 60%, research paper accounts for 30% while Examination accounts for 10% of the marks.
Upon successful completion of the course, the participant will receive a Post Graduate Diploma Certificate of Merit and a transcript.
Duration: 12 Months
Fee: $1000
