February 18, 2005

A Degree You Hope You Never Need

By DAN CARNEVALE

Colleges offer online courses in preventing and responding to terror strikes

Since September 11, 2001, Rebecca Vieira's job helping federal agents to investigate crimes at a New England naval station has expanded to include protecting the base from terrorist attack.

As a result, she is taking online courses from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, which has a certificate program in homeland security. The program includes courses on the history of terrorism, weapons of mass

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