School: Science

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for Semester 1 2020 Units. Students will be notified of all approved modifications by Unit Coordinators via email and Unit Blackboard sites. Where changes have been made, these are designed to ensure that you still meet the unit learning outcomes in the context of our adjusted teaching and learning arrangements.

  • Unit Title

    Security Foundations
  • Unit Code

    SCY1118
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Michael Patrick COOLE

Description

At the conclusion of this unit students will have a detailed understanding of security, as a domain, function and theory. Students will examine the function and theory of security within an international, national and organizational security context. A mix of historical case studies and current real world events will be used by students to examine the relationship between security management theory, risk theory and a range of criminological theories. Using the built environment as a focal point, students will examine how security is achieved through balanced applications of detection, surveillance, control and response using both human and technological resources. Throughout the unit students will be expected to consider the ethical impacts of security as a function.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded SCY1101

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Define the nature of security.
  2. Categorise key concepts related to the security domain.
  3. Identify the broad functions of the security domain through multiple sources.
  4. Examine security as a value.
  5. Present a point of view using key concepts related to the security domain.

Unit Content

  1. The concept of security.
  2. The security and risk intersection.
  3. Legal framework in the pursuit of security.
  4. Social factors as drivers for insecurity.
  5. The Nation state and security (Australian context).
  6. International Security.
  7. Domestic security and crime prevention.
  8. Security as a management discipline.
  9. The broad domain of security.
  10. Ethical security is not an oxymoron.
  11. Policy, standards and legislation as drivers of security.
  12. Security and crisis.
  13. Security and the built environment.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 2 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 113 x 1 hour workshopNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, tutorials, readings and assignments.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
TestShort test10%
EssayExploration of the security literature30%
ReportSecurity domain report60%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
TestShort test10%
EssayExploration of the security literature30%
ReportSecurity domain report60%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Science

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for this unit. All assessment changes will be published by 27 July 2020. All students are reminded to check handbook at the beginning of semester to ensure they have the correct outline.

  • Unit Title

    Security Foundations
  • Unit Code

    SCY1118
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Michael Patrick COOLE

Description

At the conclusion of this unit students will have a detailed understanding of security, as a domain, function and theory. Students will examine the function and theory of security within an international, national and organizational security context. A mix of historical case studies and current real world events will be used by students to examine the relationship between security management theory, risk theory and a range of criminological theories. Using the built environment as a focal point, students will examine how security is achieved through balanced applications of detection, surveillance, control and response using both human and technological resources. Throughout the unit students will be expected to consider the ethical impacts of security as a function.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded SCY1101

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Define the nature of security.
  2. Categorise key concepts related to the security domain.
  3. Identify the broad functions of the security domain through multiple sources.
  4. Examine security as a value.
  5. Present a point of view using key concepts related to the security domain.

Unit Content

  1. The concept of security.
  2. The security and risk intersection.
  3. Legal framework in the pursuit of security.
  4. Social factors as drivers for insecurity.
  5. The Nation state and security (Australian context).
  6. International Security.
  7. Domestic security and crime prevention.
  8. Security as a management discipline.
  9. The broad domain of security.
  10. Ethical security is not an oxymoron.
  11. Policy, standards and legislation as drivers of security.
  12. Security and crisis.
  13. Security and the built environment.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 2 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 113 x 1 hour workshopNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, tutorials, readings and assignments.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
TestShort test10%
EssayExploration of the security literature30%
ReportSecurity domain report60%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
TestShort test10%
EssayExploration of the security literature30%
ReportSecurity domain report60%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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