Course description
Join our LJMU course lecturers and many other experts across the field of security as this podcast from LCAPS brings in depth interviews with current academics on the issues currently in policing. These issues will be challenged and cover the hot topics that you really want to hear.
Upcoming start dates
Training content
The course syllabus is designed to provide you with the understanding of inter-disciplinary links between diplomatic studies and security, alongside counter-terrorism and international relations. Analyse new theories and paradigms and learn to engage critically with the topic.
- Module 1- Security Studies
- Module 2- Intelligence Analysis
- Module 3- Theory and Practice of Modern Diplomacy
- Module 4- Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism
- Module 5- International Relations in the Contemporary World
- Module 6- Contemporary Issues in Crime, Safety and Security
- Module 7- Diplomacy and Security Studies Dissertation
Course delivery details
We offer one start date per academic year (September).
The programme must be completed within:
- PGCert: 11 months
- PGDip: 22 months
- MSc: 28 months
Certification / Credits
- The debates between those seeking to retain the discipline’s focus purely on military conflict and those who argue that in a globalised world Security Studies needs to be expanded to a consideration of economic, environmental as well as social issues.
- What intelligence and analysis really mean, their overall role, and their application to security-related issues of criminology and the domain of public protection.
- The central debate about the nature of diplomacy in the twenty-first century.
- Counter-terrorism and other responses by the state, the security services and the police.
- The increasingly cross-border interactions that are reshaping regions, states and societies.
- The emerging paradigms within counter-terrorism safety and security at both local and global levels, and to explore some justifications for the increasing ‘securitisation’ of social life
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