Warsaw, Poland

Security

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⇑Security at Civitas

Language: PolishStudies in Polish
Subject area: security services
Kind of studies: full-time studies, part-time studies
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⇑Test: Is Security the right fit for you?

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10 questions · two minutes

1. The news reports a threat – say, a cyberattack on a public institution or rising tension at a border. How do you react?

2. You’re organising a school event for a few hundred people. What’s the first thing on your mind?

3. How do you behave in an emergency – for example, when someone faints on a bus?

4. On the programme, you read security analyses and reports in English and debate with classmates from different countries who see threats differently. How do you feel about that?

5. A friend gets a message asking for their online banking password. What do you tell them?

6. Are you interested in how the services and institutions responsible for security work – the police, the fire service or the armed forces, for example?

7. How do you approach rules and procedures – the regulations at a part-time job, say?

8. You’re asked to assess whether your school is well prepared for a fire. How do you go about it?

9. A row breaks out among your friends and starts to escalate. What do you do?

10. What motivates you most to study Security?

⇑Definitions and quotes

Security
Security is freedom from, or resilience against, potential harm (or other unwanted coercive change) from external forces. Beneficiaries (technically referents) of security may be persons and social groups, objects and institutions, ecosystems, and any other entity or phenomenon vulnerable to unwanted change by its environment.
Security
In the entire world, there is not a single establishment of the security industry that is not based on monopoly or on communism.  …  Political economy has disapproved equally of monopoly and communism in the various branches of human activity, wherever it has found them.  Is it not then strange and unreasonable that it accepts them in the security industry?
Gustave de Molinari, tr. J. Huston McCulloch, §IV of The Production of Security (Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2009; orig. 1849), pp. 27–28.
Security
To bargain freedom for security is the devil's bargain. Having made the bargain, one enjoys neither freedom nor security.
Gerry Spence, Give Me Liberty! Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century, Ch. 16 : Security, the One-Way Ticket to Slavery, p. 174 (1998)
Security
From that point, my universe went on crumbling; new cracks appeared all the time. I could see that the pleasant securities of childhood, all of those warm little human emotions, all of those trivial aims and purposes that we allow to rule our lives, were an illusion. We were like sheep munching grass, unaware that the butcher's lorry is already on its way. I got used to living with a deep, underlying feeling of uncertainty that no one around me seemed to share. It was rather like living on death row.
Colin Wilson in Alien Dawn, pp. 12-13 (1998)

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