CTU’s Doctor of Management with a concentration in Homeland Security program was created to help fill the need for upper level managers trained to answer the call for expertise in areas important to national security. It features an “all-threat” curriculum – intended to help develop professionals in the fields of law enforcement, government, security, military and healthcare to pursue opportunities where they can play a role in protecting our nation.

Designed and taught by a dedicated team of management professionals and academics, the DM with a concentration in Homeland Security allows students to have challenging opportunities such as the ability to develop a plan for coordinating networked Homeland Security organizations, and to analyze how crises unfold and to evaluate contingencies for dealing with complications as they arise.

Courses in our project-based Professional Learning Model™ are taught in an executive format and delivered online. Twice each year, students attend an intensive residential symposium lasting four and a half days.

The DM with a concentration in Homeland Security is a three-year program that, through your coursework and your research, should enable you to develop a deep understanding of the variety of threats facing the United States and its communities and organizations, learn to analyze how crises unfold and evaluate contingencies for dealing with complications as they arise.

• Year 1: The Foundations
  The beginning of the program focuses on research. Each student will spend the first year learning about classic and current management literature and developing competence in research methods. A review of the literature will be completed and work will begin on an action research proposal.
• Year 2: Acquisition of Knowledge
  Once the foundation is in place, year two is the time the student chooses an area of concentration and begins to form a personal understanding of the management research and methods used in that area. Course work will focus on the concentration area: Homeland Security.
• Year 3: Leadership and Professional Advancemen
  In the final year, students will use qualitative methods and strategic processes to be able to predict future trends, furthering a mastery of a concentration . The final year will result in the production of a series of articles or a dissertation that must be approved by a three-member committee.

Successful completion of the DM with a concentration in Homeland Security can provide students with an applicable foundation of industry-related knowledge and skills, including how to:

• Attain familiarity with the body of knowledge in current management theory.
• Become a subject-matter expert in a specialized area of management.
• Develop a leadership style based on ethical and philosophical consideration.
• Effectively manage change through strategic design and research.
• Predict future trends through effective research and qualitative methods.
• Contribute to management literature via literature reviews, practitioner articles and research.
• Assess trans-organizational structures for the management of Homeland Security.
• Develop a plan for coordinating networked Homeland Security organizations.
• Analyze how crises unfold and evaluate contingencies for dealing with complications as they arise.
• Frame policy agendas for creating inter organizational collaboration among businesses, government and advocacy organizations.

Through your coursework, and your research you may engage in projects such as developing a plan for coordinating networked homeland security organizations and frame policy agendas for creating inter-organizational collaboration among businesses, government and advocacy organizations. For example:

• In Network Organizations and Other Large Scale Intervention, students will be expected to build and develop their leadership skills necessary for working within and between Network Organizations while examining various methods used for operating within a parent organization as well as cooperatively with outside Homeland Security partners.
• In Crisis Planning and Operations Management, students explore how trans-organizational policy is formed and created. Using the case study method, students will analyze multiple cases from diverse perspectives. The course requires students to do a project with a client organization engaged in homeland security.
• In Futuring and Innovation in HLS, students can develop a socio-technology plan for the future of their division of HLS and look at formal models of innovation and diffusion of innovation. They will also have the opportunity to talk with futurists and futures organizations, becoming involved in the World Futures Society and tech trending with leading electronics and aerospace companies.

Additional concentration courses in this program include:

• Contemporary Issues in Homeland Security
• Policy & Governance in Trans-Organizational Collaboration
• Strategic Thinking for HLS

The Doctor of Management program includes twelve 5-credit instructional courses, taken one per quarter for three years, plus a research-and-writing class taken each quarter. Each class is conducted online. Twice each year, students attend an intensive residential symposium lasting four and a half days. Core courses include:

• Fundamentals of Management
• Research and Writing I
• Research Methods and Design
• Research and Writing II
• Qualitative and Ethnographic Methods
• R&W III: Action Research Theory
• Quantitative Methods
• R&W IV: The Practice of Action Research
• R&W V: Process Consulting & Intervention Theory
• R&W VI: The Practice of Process Consulting & Intervention
• Research and Writing VII
• Research and Writing VIII
• Philosophy of Science, Values, and Ethics
• Research and Writing IX
• Leadership
• Research and Writing X
• Research and Writing XI
• Research and Writing XII

Successful completion of this program also requires you to communicate your research results and prepare them for publication. You will have the option to complete a dissertation or a number of publishable-quality papers.