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Protection Certificate Programs
Entry Level Certificate in Executive Protection
Program Description
This Entry Level Certificate is designed to give the professional in the executive protection field or the student who is considering getting in the field, a firm understanding of why this career is more than just “body-guarding”. Executive Protection in today’s world involves understanding the techniques necessary to prevent an incident, not just how to respond in time of danger. This certificate defines some of the most important issues that anyone in or considering the executive protection profession must consider in order to perform their job more effectively. Finally, this certificate will help facilitate the executive protection professional to better understand the value of advances as well as how to better recognize potential threats in order to implement effective defense measures.
Program Objectives
Upon completion of this certificate, students will be able to:
- Identify essential qualities the security professional, past and present, must possess to better achieve his/her mission.
- Discuss the future of executive/dignitary protection by examining the threat and the relatively inexpensive cost of protection through security contractors.
- Discuss a variety of facts about the means and methods of protecting a person(s).
- Describe various defensive tactics and self defense measures for the protective agent to utilize.
- Recognize the methods used to assess potential threats.
- Illustrate the different complexities associated with advance work.
- Describe the logistical considerations that are included in advance work.
- Discuss and evaluate ethical problem solving.
- Recognize how to apply critical elements of the advance when time is limited.
- Recognize the importance of comprehensive advance work plays in the overall relationship with the person being protected.
Courses
HIST 375 History of Executive/Dignitary Protection
This course describes the history of the personal bodyguard; the individual who has provided protective services through recorded history. The course will identify and explain the motivations, methods used, and status of the protectors of antiquity through the early modern era, and compare them with the protective personnel and services available today. Emphasis is on protection in the private sector. Students will learn to compare and contrast the status of the protective services provided to dignitaries in Western countries.
PRO 494 Essentials of Executive Protection
This course pertains to the central concerns of the protection specialist--the protection of human life. Students will learn how to apply fundamental concepts of executive protection, including defensive tactics, agent-client relations, vehicle security, threat assessment, perimeter security, basic team management and communications, and advance work. Students will also be able to explain and apply ethical and legal principles that govern the business of executive protection.
CJ 466 Advance Work
This course explores the various aspects of advance work, which is required for preparation for, and avoidance of, conflict. After obtaining the required theoretical basis, students will replicate the work done as a member of an advance team by gathering intelligence, identifying potential hazards inherent in a given assignment, and writing a complete advance report detailing all the information a protective agent needs for a successful assignment.
PHIL 400 Ethics
This course will examine the broad concepts of ethics, morality and integrity, as well as the relevance of those concepts in the specific professions of protection, intelligence and counterterrorism. Students will study the public and private morality of executives, the moral obligations of managers and employees, the ways in which managers influence the moral environment of institutions, and the temptations of position. The course will analyze ongoing debates pertaining to terror detainees, renditions, espionage, covert actions and loyalty. Also covered are duties and responsibilities of other professional ethical codes of conduct. Students will explore various legal aspects of intelligence work and the different laws and regulations that guide the Intelligence Community and other professions.
Entrance Requirements/Costs
| 1. Total Quarter Units= |
18 (4 courses) |
| 2. Total Program Tuition= |
$5,500.00 |
Qualified Entry Level Certificate Program applicants will have completed high school or its equivalent and be at least 18 years old.
The Enrollment Committee evaluates an applicant on multiple criteria upon the receipt of the following:
- Completed application
- Proof of high school graduation or equivalent
- Background check and/or Letter of Good Standing
Mid Level Certificate in Executive Protection
Program Description
This Mid Level Certificate is designed to take the professional who already has some experience in the executive protection field to a level of competency expected by clients and employers. Building on the basics from the Entry Level Certificate and/or the student’s current level of experience in this field, this certificate further explains the tools necessary to conduct successful protection operations, including intelligence techniques and crisis preparations germane to protection. Finally, it will give the student a better understanding of relationships and behaviors with clients and those around them.
Program Objectives
Upon completion of this certificate, students will be able to:
- Describe what is meant by "assessing the threat" and the critical role it plays in protective operations.
- Discuss the key factors involved in developing an ethical relationship with the person being protected.
- Describe the levels of dangerousness presented by protective intelligence subjects after proper assessment and investigation has been completed.
- Explain rules of manners and etiquette, dress, protocol, and conduct for situations ranging from everyday business communications to highly formal occasions.
- Explain conventions of etiquette and protocol for diplomatic events.
- Demonstrate knowledge of protocol and etiquette among US military services.
- Demonstrate the ability to successfully write a sound executable Emergency Management Plan.
- Identify key personnel involved with creating an executable plan.
- Demonstrate how knowing the significance of the protective intelligence subject's background, behavior, and motivation plays in the appraisal of a subject, the student will be able to apply what they have learned in order to conduct a proper protective intelligence investigation and provide an assessment of the subject's degree of dangerousness towards a client.
Courses
PRO 595 Advanced Protection Operations
Students will receive a broad understanding of executive protection and protective operations. They will explore the basic tenets and terminology used in protection of persons in both the public and private sectors. Students will learn about protective concepts including assessing the threat; working the principle; comprehensive security planning; developing a relationship with the person being protected; skills and resources needed.
PRO 596 Advanced Protection Intelligence
This course will prepare the student to conduct a protective intelligence assessment of a client. Unlike threat assessments, which concentrate on the determination of the general level of danger faced by a particular client, Protective Intelligence concentrates on the investigation of historical background of a specific subject who shows an "unusual direction of interest" towards a client, the determination of the subject's threat to a client, and finally, the management of the subject's interest towards a client.
COM 510 Advanced Protocol, Manners, Etiquette
This course teaches the rules of social interaction, protocol and etiquette for diplomatic and military occasions, with special emphasis on working with international guests and doing business overseas. This information will help the student learn to blend in and to do his or her work in such situations without inadvertently embarrassing themselves or the client.
INT 505 Advanced Strategies/Crisis Preparedness
Experience has shown that the best way to deal with crises is to have a plan prepared in advance for coping with them. Planning for disasters and accidents is an important aspect of the security professional's job. This course teaches methods and techniques for developing and updating crisis preparedness procedures to anticipate and prepare for the consequences of a wide range of natural and man-made crises.
Entrance Requirements/Costs
| 1. Total Quarter Units= |
18 (4 courses) |
| 2. Total Program Tuition= |
$6,900.00 |
Qualified Mid Level Certificate applicants will have successfully completed our Entry Level Certificate program or have a bachelor’s degree from an institution accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Secretary of Education and/or the Council for Higher Education Accreditation.
The Enrollment Committee evaluates an applicant for the Mid Level Certificate Programs on multiple criteria upon the receipt of the following:
- Completed application
- Completion of Entry Level Certificate Program or bachelor’s degree
- Background check and/or Letter of Good Standing
Senior Level Certificate in Executive Protection
Program Description
This Senior Level Certificate is designed for the executive protection professional who wants to better understand the skills necessary to develop a more complete and thorough protection package for their clients. The student will learn the value as well as the best techniques for developing information about specific areas or countries as well as get a better understanding of terrorism in today’s world. Finally, the student will gain an understanding of the complexities and tasks associated with managing the consequences of terrorist incidents and natural disasters to be better prepared for their protection assignments.
Program Objectives
Upon completion of this certificate, students will be able to:
- Develop a broader scope of executive protection responsibilities and be able to describe such responsibilities.
- Discuss weaponless defense tactics.
- Identify and list characteristics of the potentially violent individual.
- Conduct investigative research of open source information for completion of an area study analysis.
- Compare and contrast data to arrive at an accurate assessment of a geographical area’s capacity to effect operational capability.
- Identify and explain the psychology, motivation, and behavioral traits that distinguish a foreign or domestic terrorist group.
- Recognize the various behaviors inherent to Terrorist Groups and describe the ways the associated behaviors effect the workings of a Terrorist Group.
- Describe the advantages of common communication and information management systems.
- Describe the key ideas and principles underlying National Incident Management System (NIMS)
Courses
PRO 500 Advanced Executive Protection
The modern personal security specialist has evolved far beyond the dull, stereotypical "body guard" or "muscle men" whose primary approach is intimidation. Today's executive protection specialist is highly trained and sophisticated and protects clients by preventing trouble rather than relying on ad hoc responses during a crisis. Students who complete this course will learn more advanced methods and techniques for ensuring the safety of a client in more unstable and rapidly evolving situations. They will also learn to plan, conduct, and maintain protection operations as a team leader or manager.
INT 584 Area Studies Analysis
This course pertains to the central concerns of the intelligence analyst, as well as any member of an area team that may be required to operate in a foreign country. Through the use of various research mediums, the analyst will codify and unify relevant information into a comprehensive study that will present an accurate and up-to date-picture of the target region’s cultural, political, economic, social, military, geographic, climate, demographic, hydrographic, and historical data that will support strategic, intelligence, and tactical operations by the end user.
SOC 510 Terrorists Group Dynamics
Terrorist decision-making often depends just as much on the group’s structure and internal power relations as on ideology and external circumstance. Students in this course will acquire the tools necessary to identify and evaluate the variety of structures of terrorist organizations, from strict hierarchy to diffuse networks, as well as the implications of structure and internal dynamics on terrorist actions and capabilities. They will demonstrate the ability to apply theories of organizations and networks, as well as how these concepts can be exploited to infiltrate and nullify terrorist groups.
MGT 605 Advanced Consequences Management
This course will address the issues relating to consequence management of acts of terrorism, including weapons of mass destruction (WMD) events. Students will also acquire a substantive working knowledge of the Incident Command System (ICS) at the local, state, federal (National Incident Management System [NIMS]) levels, including the Unified Command System to deal with disaster events over multi-jurisdictional areas (e.g., several states). Use of the Incident Command System (ICS) is introduced, as well as foundational knowledge for higher level ICS training. Students taking this course will be able to describe and explain the history, features and principles, and organizational structure of the ICS, as well as the relationship between ICS and the National Incident Management System (NIMS).
Entrance Requirements/Costs
| 1. Total Quarter Units= |
18 (4 courses) |
| 2. Total Program Tuition= |
$6,900.00 |
Qualified Senior Level Certificate applicants will have successfully completed our Entry Level and Mid Level Certificate programs or have a bachelor’s degree from an institution accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Secretary of Education and/or the Council for Higher Education Accreditation. If the applicant has not taken at least the Mid Level Certificate, they must demonstrate at least one year of related experience in a specific area of relevant study.
The Enrollment Committee evaluates an applicant for the Senior Level Certificate Programs on multiple criteria upon the receipt of the following:
- Completed application
- Completion of Mid Level Certificate Program or bachelor’s degree and one year of related work experience
- Background check and/or Letter of Good Standing
Each certificate is worth 18 quarter units and the student must maintain a 3.0 GPA in each course.
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