LGL 3535 Terrorism Response: Infrastructure and Risk Analysis
This course explores how modern societies with their interdependent social, technical and political systems are subject to a variety of vulnerabilities, and consequences. Threats range from natural hazards to accidents to terrorist attacks; vulnerabilities can be organizational, structural, or geographical; consequences include human casualties as well as economic losses. The focus of the course introduces the student to the critical infrastructure as outlined by the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection that includes vital assets such as agriculture and food supplies, water, information technology, energy communications, healthcare and public health, transportation systems, banking and finance, and energy services. Students will explore critical infrastructure protection from a variety of perspectives including federal- and state-level policy, institutional framework, and risk analysis.