Find out more about Master of Professional Studies in Homeland Security / Agricultural Biosecurity & Food Defense

Program Details

Natural and manmade threats can be everywhere, including against our agriculture and food supply chain. Learn to defend against these threats with this online homeland security degree. You will gain a fundamental understanding of homeland security issues with an emphasis on food science, plant protection, and animal security. Protect against attacks that may cause illnesses, generate fear, cause economic loss, or create social instability.

This curriculum combines courses that provide a fundamental understanding of homeland security issues and electives that focus on such topic areas as food science and defense, plant protection, and animal security. Graduates of this online agriculture degree will have foundational knowledge about:

• Microbial forensic capabilities
• Surveillance systems for infectious diseases
• Diagnostic and sensor technologies
• Disease-predictive models
• Protection and mitigation approaches

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