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SHSS Launches New Program in National Security Studies and Hosts FBI Event
H. Keith Melton and Conference Participants.
The new Master of Science in National Security Affairs (NSA) offered by the Graduate School of Humanities & Social Sciences, began in the 2011 summer term. To kick off the start of this new degree program, NSA in collaboration with the FBI Miami Counterintelligence Strategic Partnership Program, recently presented a training event on main campus featuring H. Keith Melton, a military historian, author, and expert on clandestine devices and equipment. Participants included the FBI, numerous law enforcement agencies, the military, government agencies, related businesses, and NSA students and faculty.
In addition to Melton, speakers included Major Jim Moyer from the Davie Police Department; Judith McKay, J.D., Ph.D., chair of the Department of Multidisciplinary Studies; John V. Gillies, Special Agent in Charge FBI Miami; Cassandra E. Joseph, Special Agent FBI Miami Strategic Partnership Coordinator; William Kline, Director Interagency Training Center, and Barbara E. Moser, Special Agent FBI Miami Strategic Partnership Coordinator.
The M.S. in National Security Affairs is a 33-credit program in the Department of Multidisciplinary Studies (DMS) and is designed to provide students with theoretical, research, and applied skills in the emerging academic field of national security affairs. Students in this program will build a core understanding of critical issues informing the field of national security today, including the assessment and analysis of the threat of terrorism in the US and beyond and the analysis of intelligence collection.
Applications are being accepted for the fall 2011 term. For more information, please call 954-262-7563 or 800-541-6682, ext. 27563 or send email to: gradschool@nova.edu.