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CSS243: Principles of Security Practice 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. The Course shall consist of 20 units, which include the meaning of security, discourse on violence and violent crime, domestic violence, theories of violence, theory of crime control, approaches to security management, intelligence cycle, security personnel management, and management of job stress among security personnel and trauma management in security career: REBT. Other areas of discourse are public relations management in security sector, operational management and capacity planning, issue of asymmetric aggression in strategic planning, guerilla and counterguerilla, fortification and manoeuvre tactics in defence and security management.
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.
Teacher Of Course
Includes
• 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