Overview

The American Public University System offers a Bachelor of Arts in Security Management. You will study global terrorism, legal and ethical issues, physical security, program evaluation, and security administration. 

Graduates of this online bachelor’s degree are inclined toward professions that involve general public or private management, federal or local government civil service, military service, law enforcement, and private security.

Program Objectives

In addition to the institutional and degree level learning objectives, graduates of this program are expected to achieve these learning outcomes:

• Identify organizational security risk exposure; identify cost-effective mitigation strategies; and prepare for recovery strategies.

• Employ the use of risk analysis and vulnerability assessment processes.

• Critically examine the variety and extent of losses from criminal acts, natural disasters, and security breaches facing society.

• Analyze concepts of information security, personnel security, and physical security and determine the planning approaches to prevent business losses.

• Analyze the trends affecting security and loss prevention and determine the approaches to reduce losses facing businesses and institutions.

• Evaluate, from a multi-disciplinary approach, non-traditional approaches to crime prevention.

• Distinguish between traditional criminal justice roles, functions, and concepts as a reactive institution to the security roles as a preventive societal institution.