Teaching

Theater Security Decision Making (TSDM) /Foreign Policy Analysis: TSDM is designed to engage intermediate-rank students in the complexities of today's national and international security environment with a strong emphasis on regional security issues. The course offers a broad interdisciplinary curriculum in contemporary security studies that encompasses a diverse spectrum of regional and global issues and perspectives. This eight-credit hour courses provide a broad interdisciplinary foundation in contemporary security studies including international relations, regional studies, foreign policy analysis and decision-making. The curriculum consists of two sub-courses and a culminating exercise: Security Strategies, Policy Analysis, TSDM Final Exercise (FX).

National Security Decision Making(NSDM)/Foreign Policy Analysis: NSDM is designed to engage senior-rank students in the current and future complexities of a rapidly evolving national and international security environment. The course offers a broad interdisciplinary curriculum in contemporary security studies that encompasses a diverse spectrum of global and regional issues and perspectives, but with emphasis on U.S. decision-making challenges and processes at the national strategic level. This eight-credit hour courses provide a broad interdisciplinary foundation in contemporary security studies including international relations, regional studies, foreign policy analysis, and decision making. The curriculum consists of three sub-courses and a culminating exercise: Security Strategies, Policy Analysis, and NSDM Final Exercise (FX).

Climate Change and National Security (elective) Resident: This 2-credit course introduces a student to the basics of climate change and human security and how these topics are currently interpreted through the lens of U.S. national security. The first part of the course examines climate change through an international, national, and national security perspective to build a foundation for the issues presented in the rest of the course. Human security is described using the three primary components which include human rights, economic development, and security. After providing a framework for climate and human security, students explore specific human security topics to include: development and economic insecurity/poverty, food insecurity, population, environmental insecurity, water scarcity, health insecurity, migration, humanitarian response and sea level rise. Students will define the topic, understand the international governance and actors, and relate current events. The course has a current events focus that is practical, policy focused, and solution oriented.

Climate Change and National Security (elective) College of Distance Education: This 3-credit asynchronous course introduces a student to the basics of climate change and human security and how these topics are currently interpreted through the lens of U.S. national security. The first part of the course examines climate change through an international, national, and national security perspective to build a foundation for the issues presented in the rest of the course. Human security is described using the three primary components which include human rights, economic development, and security. After providing a framework for climate and human security, students explore specific human security topics to include: development and economic insecurity/poverty, food insecurity, population, environmental insecurity, water scarcity, health insecurity, migration, humanitarian response and sea level rise. Students will define the topic, understand the international governance and actors, and relate current events. The course has a current events focus that is practical, policy focused, and solution oriented.

How Navies Fight and Win at Sea (elective): This 2-credit courser re-examines the foundational tenets of naval operations to show how each contributes to a coherent theory of Naval Operational Art. It explores Explore how naval warfare is different from combat in other domains and shows how physics, machines, energy, information, time and distance all contribute to advantage in naval warfare. Students will understand the physical and operational realities of naval combat in order to employ and support it correctly. Case studies include the North Sea (1914-1915), Plan Orange Phase II, and the Battle of the Atlantic. Course concludes with a South China Sea naval wargame.