The Advanced Counterterrorism and Homeland Security Graduate Certificate online at Southern New Hampshire University introduces you to the key challenges, strategies, principles, and theories used to help keep the U.S. safe from terrorism, natural disasters, and other threats. Taught by experienced professionals who are up to date on the latest technology, trends, and tactics in the industry, our courses provide a broad foundation to help you enter the field or further your studies. The homeland security graduate certificate examines techniques such as intelligence analysis, threat management, advanced surveillance, and anti-terrorism.

Upon completion of this certificate, you'll have the knowledge base and skill set to help you compete for jobs in emergency management, infrastructure protection, border patrol, law enforcement, intelligence analysis, and other related professions. The certificate in homeland security online coursework gives you a broad sense of the on-the-job challenges faced by counterterrorism and homeland security professionals. Throughout your courses, you'll learn about emergency management planning, threat assessments, constitutional rights, civil liberties, and the role elected officials play in shaping public policy dealing with counterterrorism.

Each class in this 4-course certificate will help you master fast and thorough analysis, decision making, and action steps that can have life-saving consequences:

- Global Terrorism. Explore the influence geopolitics and terrorist attacks have on our everyday lives. In this course, you'll examine historical events while learning about existing misconceptions surrounding terrorism. Finally, you'll learn how to appropriately address global terrorism.

- Terrorist Techniques and Counterterrorism. Dissect common biases and mindsets involving terrorism. Learn how to deter acts of terrorism by employing counterterrorism techniques used today in the U.S. and abroad. You'll gain an extensive understanding of extremist thought and the motivations behind terrorism.

- Threat Assessment. Learn how to determine the validity and seriousness of terrorist threats. After assessing the context of various situations, you'll explore and identify appropriate responses. Understand how to better verify intel in order to properly deter a terrorist act.

- Intelligence Collection and Analysis. Analyze data using practices homeland security professionals employ every day. Learn various methods for examining intelligence as well as how to communicate your findings to an array of audiences. You'll gain a good understanding of what techniques should be used to produce the intel you need in order to address terrorism.

Expanding access to quality higher education means removing the barriers that may stand between you and your degree. That's why you can apply at any time and get a decision within days of submitting all required materials:

- Completed Application

- Undergraduate transcripts, which we can retrieve for you by submitting a Transcript Request Form Acceptance decisions are made on a rolling basis throughout the year for our 5 graduate terms.

$150 Graduation Fee, Course Materials ($ varies by course)