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Nov 21, 2024
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2024-2025 Course Catalog
Critical Infrastructure, Ph.D.
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The Doctor of Philosophy in Critical Infrastructure is designed to meet the demand for the highest skilled professionals to become the leaders who direct and upgrade the nation’s critical infrastructure. The program addresses one of the greatest technical challenges of the 21st century: how to create a robust and sustainable infrastructure that is resilient against multiple threats, as well as how to build operational, systems, and programmatic capabilities for detection, protection, prevention, mitigation, and response. Graduates can expect to fill executive and senior-level management positions in government organizations, private corporations, and commercial start-up companies.
All required courses are offered exclusively online.
Student Outcomes
Upon graduation, graduates will be able to
- Integrate and synthesize alternate, divergent, or contradictory perspectives or ideas fully within the field of Critical Infrastructure.
- Present scholarly work on Critical Infrastructure via appropriate communication channels.
- Demonstrate advanced knowledge and competencies in Critical Infrastructure.
- Analyze existing theories to draw data-supported conclusions in Critical Infrastructure.
- Execute a plan to complete a significant piece of scholarly research in Critical Infrastructure.
- Evaluate the legal, social, economic, environmental, and ethical impact of actions within Critical Infrastructure and demonstrate advanced knowledge and competency to Integrate the results in the leadership decision-making process.
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Course Requirements
Doctor of Philosophy 60 Credits
Notes
- This program may be completed with a minimum of 60 credit hours, but may require additional credit hours, depending on the time required to complete the dissertation/publication research. Students who are not prepared to defend after completion of the 60 credits will be required to enroll in RSC-899, a one-credit, eight-week continuation course.
- Students are required to be continuously enrolled/registered in the RSC-899 course until they successfully complete their dissertation defense/exegesis.
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