Hostage Negotiations   [Archived Catalog]
2011-2012 Academic Catalog and Student Handbook with Addendum
   

FO 634 - Hostage Negotiations


This course examines strategies for negotiating a critical incident, understanding and managing the critical incident, and communication techniques, as well as understanding perpetrators, stress and stress management, and the Stockholm syndrome within a hostage situation. In addition, students gain an understanding of crisis negotiation, debriefing, hostage-taker demands, and the effects of time on a situation. (2 credits)