Partner Details
Informa Connect
Awards
Target Award
Award Description:Master of Science - MS
Alternative Exit
Recruitable Target
Recruitable Target
Alternative Exit
Programme Offerings
Part-Time
DL-INF-SEP
Educational Aims of the Course
The need for increased global security has grown exponentially in recent years. Whereas traditional security measures were mostly about securing people and places through a variety of physical and human measures, today’s range of threats are far more diffuse. Technology and the World Wide Web have not only brought societies around the globe closer together, they are both directly and indirectly responsible for creating vulnerabilities. Those vulnerabilities manifest in many different forms that span a spectrum of issues ranging from cybercrime, political and social upheaval, to recruiting would be terrorists. Moreover, as the world has become reliant on technology, the risk to personal and organizational information has also become vulnerable. Identity theft, corporate espionage, and electronic transactions have all become vulnerable to those that wish to exploit that environment. The Security Management programme is designed to prepare individuals to work in this vocation whether it be in the public or private sectors. These courses are taught by distance learning and aims to connect a diverse body of domestic and international students across time zones, to share knowledge and develop expertise in the fields. The courses key aims are: • To enable students to develop advanced skills and competencies in conducing, evaluating and presenting research relevant to Security Management. • To provide distance learning programmes in Security Management for full-time employees. • To enable students to make an original contribution to the discipline of Security Management and the advancement of professional security practice. • To produce competent, informed reflectively and ethically competent students who have a developed academic understanding the key issues within Security Management and the theories which underpin the discipline.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Demonstrate a critical awareness of the impact and influence evidence-informed policy has, and continues to have, on professional practice in security management.
2.
Undertake and present scholarly work.
3.
Understand the ethical implications of policing related enquiries and show sensitivity to values and interests, to identify and take account of normative and moral positions.
4.
Recognise the relevance of the study of security management to the wider discipline of security and policing studies.
5.
Show sensitivity to diversity issues and competing interests in security management.
6.
Demonstrate the capacity to work independently and with others to professional standards, and display higher skill levels in the subject areas.
7.
Select effective information collection methods and use the most appropriate analytical tools.
8.
Articulate arguments and conclusions based on evidence and that are subject to a well-developed critical appraisal and imaginative judgement.
9.
Present information in various formats and for different audiences.
10.
Collaborate and co-operate in working with others to investigate questions or issues relating to Counter-terrorism studies, policing, and security studies.
11.
Prioritise time to work to strict deadlines.
12.
Demonstrate a critical appreciation of the influences and drivers of policy and practice change in the broad areas of security management.
13.
Communicate effectively in both verbal and written forms.
14.
Use ICT to access contemporary sources of information.
15.
Apply numerical skills to cases involving a quantitative dimension. Teaching, learning and assessment methods used to enable outcomes to be achieved and demonstrated.
16.
Demonstrate a critical understanding of the research designs, methodological choices, and validity of sources of empirical research and good/best practice guidance that seek to analyse and measure the performance of security management interventions.
17.
Show how the boundaries of knowledge are extended through the production of a research-informed critical commentary that advances innovative practice development or serves to enhance the understanding of the need to develop greater efficiencies and enhanced performance in professional practice.
18.
Use problem solving skills - show imagination and flexibility in seeking solutions to problems.
19.
Apply major theories and concepts to the study of security management.
20.
Independently engage with the subject literature, analyse and assess it to support critical and normative judgements on counter-terrorism issues and theories with relevant evidence and structured argument.
21.
Identify a range of research strategies and methods and reflexively assess the merits of each.
22.
Demonstrate the skills necessary to plan, conduct and report a research project.
Teaching, Learning and Assessment
Teaching, learning and assessment methods used to enable outcomes to be achieved and demonstrated. On the course, there is an especial emphasis on a sound grasp of the relevant academic literature, including substantial use of key scholarly journals in the field of security studies, intelligence analysis and policing. The assessment strategy also concentrates on how theory relates to and enhances good practice. This is assessed through a variety of summative assessments but with a focus on producing well written essays and reports. Students on the programme will be delivered research-informed teaching that is relevant and current to those seeking to understand the challenges facing societies The input of LJMU based experts actively researching across the disciplines of (amongst others) policing studies, security studies, international relations, and criminology will be supplemented with teaching inputs from security and policing stakeholders drawn from such diverse backgrounds as police leaders, the military and civil servants. In a programme designed with the demands to balance work and study commitments the MSc in Security Management combines the extensive use of Informa Connects virtual learning environment to tutor and support students through the development of their agendas for work-based research activity. The diversity of the talents within the teaching team, drawing together as it does established LJMU based researchers and staff currently or recently employed in policing or security professions, enhances the learning development opportunities for students to engage with whilst also ensuring that course content is relevant to, and informed by, professional practice. A range of learning strategies and a variety of modes of interactive delivery conducive to on-line distance learning will be utilised throughout the programme and delivered by the LJMU VLE Canvas or Informa Connects learning platform, including an introductory lecture and a range of on-line activities; e.g. presentations, workbooks, podcasts, blogs, forums both tutor-led synchronous (which can be recorded) and asynchronous, Skype tutorials in addition to utilising suitable OER (open educational resources),such as ‘You Tube’ videos, supported by digital key readings. Knowledge and understanding is assessed via summative assessment methods suitable for on-line distance-learning, such as formal and reflective essays, and full-scale individual report. A range of periodic formative study skills and knowledge checks will be completed by the students on-line which feedback will be given in order to enable on-going development via reflective practice and aimed at research and compilation of the summative assessment tasks. Target Award Learning Outcomes 1 – 22 are taught through on-line lectures and developed via on-line forums, knowledge checks and appropriate formative tasks designed for on-line learning. These skills are assessed across all modules while the variety of assessments across the programme ensures that these skills are assessed in different ways and in a mode suitable for on-line distance-learning. Formative assessment is used to develop knowledge, understanding and skills, while summative assessment is used to assess the student’s success in achieving the learning outcomes.
Programme Structure
Programme Structure Description
Completion of 60 taught credits provides Postgraduate Certificate in Security Management. Completion of 120 taught credits provides Postgraduate Diploma in Security Management. Completion of 180 credits award: MSc in Security Management. Students enrolling onto the Postgraduate Certificate in Security Management will undertake the following modules; 7151PS: Security Studies 7139PS: Security … For more content click the Read More button below.
Structure
Level 7
Entry Requirements
Alternative qualifications considered
Other international requirements