You Are The Next Generation: Earn Your BA In Government & National Security From TU

Government & National Security

Our national security depends upon the creativity, energy, and skills of young people serving with federal, state, and local agencies and operating in our homeland at our borders, and overseas.  The next generation of diplomats, military officers, analysis with CIA, FBI, Homeland Security, and state and local offices will help define, detect, and defend against threats to our national security that emerge in coming years.  Hiring at all levels of government reflects our urgent and continuing need for more and better-educated professionals to defend our nation and its interests.

Tiffin University has developed a Bachelor of Arts (BA) Degree in Government and National Security to help meet the growing and demanding needs of our governing agencies for motivated and well-educated graduates.  Recruiters and other representatives from the CIA, FBI, Department of Defense, Department of State, U.S. Secret Service, and U.S. Marshals, among others, have come to TU to encourage our graduating seniors to apply for permanent positions with their agencies.  They look to TU because they know our graduates have the kind of practical, real-world education necessary to meet the many security challenges in the coming years.

The Government & National Security Curriculum

Our Government and National Security program reflects the real world of national security because our faculty comes from that world.  The faculty has served in combat, in CIA stations, and military installations overseas, with international organizations, in FBI field offices, and with U.S. Marshals at home, and in the White House.  They bring the real world of national security to our program through outside speakers, internships, and, most of all, through instruction every day in the classroom. 

TU Makes It All Relevant!

You won’t be doing book reports.  You’ll be doing written and oral briefings on both real and hypothetical security situations that require quick analysis and problem solving.  You will learn using the same tools and methods that our national security agencies use for current employees.  You will learn how everything taught in our classrooms applies in the real world.  TU makes it all relevant!

The first section of this major draws on those parts of a traditional curriculum that bear directly upon the workings of our governmental system in general, and our national security system in particular, at the federal, state, and local levels. 

The second section of this major focuses on the structure, elements, and history of our consideration and the use of the six major instruments of national power –diplomatic, military; economic/financial/commercial, law enforcement, covert action; and homeland security – used to protect and promote our national security.  The curriculum also applies these elements to the issues of international security and globalization that our majors will face upon graduation.

Your Course Of Study

Part One, The Federal Structure and Federalism:  How our Government Works

NOTE:  POL101 is a prerequisite for all other courses in Part One.

Part Two, The Instruments of National Power:  How National Security Works

NOTE:  POL151 is a prerequisite for all other courses in Part Two. 

Part Three, Concentration

Intelligence & Security Studies Concentration

Politics & Government Concentration

Your Outcomes From The Government & National Security Major: What You Can Expect!

1.  Graduates will be able to analyze, and devise solutions for, problems in national security within the framework  of our instruments of national power and their use within our political/legal and policy context.

2.  Graduates will possess a detailed understanding of the history and culture of other parts of the world.

3.  Graduates will understand the historical context for current international security threats that face the United States at home and abroad, and how the United States uses the tools of state power to protect the vital interests of America. 

4.  Graduates choosing the technology option will demonstrate the ability to array and manipulate data for research and analysis purposes.

5.  Graduates choosing the language option will understand a language other than English.

6.  Graduates will understand potential careers and work expectations in the field of national security.

7.  Graduates will exhibit critical multimodal communication skills.

8.  Graduates will exhibit the ability to write and think critically.

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For more information about the BA Government and National Security Degree Program, or the School of Criminal Justice and Social Sciences, contact us at (419) 448-3292, or (800) 968-6446, ext 3292.