Overview
The MORS Certificate in Homeland Security Gaming examines the challenges of gaming homeland security incidents. The course will introduce homeland security operations and how games and exercises can be used for planning, training, and analysis. Lectures will focus on games and game design with their application to homeland security incidents. The instructors will employ a series of case studies and practical exercises to explain how to design and facilitate these games. At the end of the course the students will be able to evaluate a natural or human caused disaster and employ design techniques to model and produce a game.
Objectives
Our expert instructors will introduce participants to various ways game designs can be used to evaluate and model various types of disasters and emergencies. Participants will:
- Learn how to evaluate a specific type of disaster by employing Homeland Security priorities and applying game design techniques
- Be familiar with the game and exercises systems of the Homeland Security Exercise Evaluation Program (HSEEP)
- Understand how to model the contingencies of specific disasters using wargame design methods
- Develop an awareness of gaming tools to develop realistic disaster-based wargames