Title: Course Information, Description, and Objectives
Course: Critical Infrastructure: An Overview > Section: Course Information

Course Information

Primary Resources:

This course is comprised of a range of different free, online materials.  For instance, the course makes use of the following resources:

- YouTube and other publicly available videos
- Readings from publicly available publications
- Readings internal to this course

Requirements for Completion:

In order to complete this course, you will need to work through each unit and all of its assigned materials.  The course is designed to allow you to successfully build upon the knowledge learned in the last unit.  It is important that you work carefully through each section in order to successfully understand the concepts and take detailed notes.

In order to “pass” this course, you will need to earn a 70% or higher on the final exam.  Your score on the exam will be tabulated as soon as you complete it.  If you do not pass the exam, you may take it again.

Time Commitment:

This course should take you a total of approximately 8 weeks to complete.  Please plan additional time for note taking and exploration of embedded links of interest to you.

Tips/Suggestions:

Feel free to replay or reread certain sections of the course in order to gain a better understanding of the information. The glossary is available for looking up terms that are related to the course. Items for further information are included and would be helpful to lead to further research on a topic that sparks the student’s interest.

Course Description:

This course is designed to provide a survey of critical infrastructure and to help raise awareness of how critical infrastructure impacts mission critical operations.  Topics include an introduction to concepts, theory, terminology and best practices regarding critical infrastructure. Upon completion, students should be able to name critical infrastructure sectors, explain relationships between infrastructure sectors, discuss the roles government and private entities play in maintaining critical infrastructure and their impact on daily life.

Objectives:

After completing this course, you should be able to:

- Define critical infrastructure
- List many of the sectors of critical infrastructure
- List some reasons that critical infrastructure is currently challenged
- Explain the role of the Department of Homeland Security in critical infrastructure
- Define Green Infrastructure
- Define Smart Grid
- Demonstrate a knowledge of the relationship between critical infrastructure and mission critical operations
- Demonstrate an understanding of all the goals from each of the units