Selected Problems in Intelligence (1-0) This course will address particularized intelligence and national security issues in depth. Examples of issues that may be investigated are intelligence failures, specific modes of intelligence activity (such as electronic intelligence), or the operational activities of a particular intelligence or national security agency. It may also be used to provide credit for Model NATO or Model Arab programs, in support of study in foreign venues under the Intelligence Community Scholar program, or cross listing with other course offerings at the graduate level. May be repeated for up to six hours of credit.

Department: Intel Nat'l Security Studies

1 Credit Hour
1 Total Contact Hour
0 Lab Hours
1 Lecture Hour
0 Other Hours

Selected Problems in Intelligence (2-0) This course will address particularized intelligence and national security issues in depth. Examples of issues that may be investigated are intelligence failures, specific modes of intelligence activity (such as electronic intelligence), or the operational activities of a particular intelligence or national security agency. It may also be used to provide credit for Model NATO or Model Arab programs, in support of study in foreign venues under the Intelligence Community Scholar program, or cross listing with other course offerings at the graduate level. May be repeated for up to six hours of credit.

Department: Intel Nat'l Security Studies

2 Credit Hours
2 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
2 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

This course provides students with the opportunity to develop qualitative and quantitative research skills necessary to undertake intelligence and criminal justice work. The course demonstrates how intelligence and criminal justice data are validated, collected, systematically organized and processed.

Department: Intel Nat'l Security Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

This course surveys the development of the US Intelligence Community (IC) from the Revolutionary War to the present day. Special focus will be given to evolving professionalism, the impact of technology and geopolitical changes, legislative oversight, and ethics. By course completion, students will demonstrate the ability to evaluate the role of intelligence in American political life and its central place in our country's quest for security.

Department: Intel Nat'l Security Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

This is a foundation course in the legal aspects, civil and criminal, of intelligence and national security.

Department: Intel Nat'l Security Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

This course assesses the national security bureaucracy from its creation, by the National Security Act of 194 7, to the present. It evaluates the structure, organization, policies and procedures, and interagency processes that govern the departments and agencies that comprise this bureaucracy, including the intelligence community. It examines successes, failures, and missteps in foreign relations, defense, and security. Students will explore the ongoing and often explore the subject of intelligence reform in the wake of contested efforts of presidents, Congress, and the courts to exercise authority and oversight over, to reform, and/or to improve the effectiveness of the national security bureaucracy from its inception to today.

Department: Intel Nat'l Security Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

This course will examine the theory and methodology of intelligence analysis. The course will focus upon critical thinking, the analytical process, the nature of bias, the avoidance of bias in qualitative analysis, and methods for dealing with uncertainty. The course centers around role-playing exercises in which students will use argumentation, and Structured Analytic Techniques (SATs) to develop hypothesis. Causal analysis and interpreting intentions will be stressed. Forecasting procedures, target analysis, and the psychology of intelligence analysis will round out the subjects examined.

Department: Intel Nat'l Security Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

This course outlines how Security Studies has developed to understand our complex contemporary global security environment. Students will apply a mix of Security Studies approaches to historical and contemporary real-world scenarios. For example, students will explore how theories of "realism" and "liberalism" relate to conflict and use them to analyze increased interstate competition. They will discuss "human security" and "energy security". They will examine transnational threats to modern societies and discuss the impact of new technologies. By completing the course, students will be able to better analyze the main security challenges of the 21st century

Department: Intel Nat'l Security Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

This course familiarizes students with Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT), as collected by the intelligence community and the private sector. Students explore the knowledge, skills, ethics, and technologies needed to collect OSINT from open, public, or unclassified sources, including grey literature and the Internet, in the twenty-first century. The course culminates in case studies of real-world OSINT collection and products, where students examine how OSINT informs decision-making and supports intelligence operations. Students should complete INSS 5305 prior to this course.

Department: Intel Nat'l Security Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

This course assesses the evolving information environment of the twenty-first century. It explores strategic communication, intelligence diplomacy, black, white, and grey propaganda, digital authoritarianism, electoral interference, and other influence operations. Students will learn to recognize and evaluate how these operations have affected or impacted governments, armed forces, and public opinion. Students will also examine how security and intelligence services have responded to these operations and/or countered them.

Department: Intel Nat'l Security Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

This course introduces students to Signals Intelligence (SIGINT), Measurement and Signature Intelligence (MASINT), and the ethical implications confronted by the intelligence community when collecting through these disciplines. The course also examines the increasing role played by Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other advanced technologies within the intelligence community. Through the integration of academic and practitioner perspectives, students will appreciate the contributions of SIGINT, MASINT, and related technical disciplines and capabilities to the production of national intelligence.

Department: Intel Nat'l Security Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

This course will examine the evolution and dynamics of contemporary terrorism and political violence, as it pertains to both international and domestic violent extremism. Special emphasis will be placed on the development of U.S. counterterrorism policy and U.S. intelligence efforts to identify and track terrorist threats at home and around the world. Attention will also be given to collection and analytical issues associated with monitoring, penetrating, and ultimately countering terrorist cells and networks, as well as related constitutional and ethical concerns.

Department: Intel Nat'l Security Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

This course examines the basic foundations and concepts for understanding information and its relationship to intelligence. It seeks to explain the process by which information can be converted into knowledge and understanding, particularly in the context of analyzing vexing national security problems. The course will also examine the impact of social and related media on the information environment, as well as the critical thinking tools and analytic techniques needed to conduct Open Source intelligence analysis amidst this complex new information environment.

Department: Intel Nat'l Security Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

This course will examine the development and contemporary use of chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and high explosive weapons and their means of delivery. Special emphasis will be placed on U.S. intelligence efforts to identify and track proliferation threats around the world. Attention will also be given to collection and analytical issues associated with this critical national security issue.

Department: Intel Nat'l Security Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

This course introduces students to the art of counterintelligence. It blends timeless counterintelligence principles with contemporary techniques against cyberespionage. Students assess counterintelligence tradecraft and case studies while evaluating the most common methods of detecting and mitigating threats from both state and nonstate actors. Attention is also given to the balance counterintelligence and law-enforcement must strike while protecting national security and complying with and respecting constitutional rights and guarantees in the US.

Department: Intel Nat'l Security Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

This course will survey a range of investigative interview types, including interviews with witnesses, screening interviews, police interrogations of suspects, intelligence interviews, and elicitation methods. Attention will be given to the empirical effectiveness of various interviewing strategies. Students will also learn about the controversy surrounding the effectiveness and ethics of enhanced interrogation methods. Students will learn through lecture and application of interview methods in interactive exercises.

Department: Intel Nat'l Security Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

This course will address the effective practice of decision making in intelligence and criminal justice fields. Students will learn how to overcome biases and errors in perception and decision. The course will incorporate findings from decision science and psychology to address specific decision problems. Learning will take place through a combination of lecture and interactive exercises designed to allow students to fully understand their own thinking errors and how evidence-based tactics can improve decision-making.

Department: Intel Nat'l Security Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

This course aims to introduce the subject of transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) as a threat to national and international security. The course will discuss the history of organized crime , its main characteristics, how it differs from "ordinary" crime, and how it has changed in the decades after the Second World War. The focus will be on the "new organized crime," its main business activities (arms-, drug-, and human- trafficking; corporate fraud; cyber crime; and terrorism), and on what kind of challenges these organizations pose to states and to international security.

Department: Intel Nat'l Security Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

This course examines the scope and breadth of homeland and national security issues. It serves as a professional overview of the field and its sub-fields including emergency management and responses aspects to all-hazzards. Prerequisite: Departmental approval required. Restricted to level of GR.

Department: Intel Nat'l Security Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

This course is designed to introduce students to the concepts and skills of risk perception, assessement, and aversion, risk management and communication, and their roles in homeland security. Prerequisite: Departmental approval required. Restricted to level of GR.

Department: Intel Nat'l Security Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

This graduate course focuses on the impact of globalization on crime and border security. Special emphasis will be placed on human, drug, and arms trafficking along the U.S.- Mexico border, but will also provide comparative examples from border regions around the world. The role of drug cartels, criminal gangs, and corruption will be addressed. Attention will also be given to the U.S.-Canadian border. Other serious crime such as fraud, identity theft, and cybercrime will be explored. This course will also review current and past strategies for maintaining border security and limiting the flow of criminal activity into the United States. Prerequisite: Department approval. Restricted to level of GR.

Department: Intel Nat'l Security Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

This graduate course focuses on the fundamental concepts involved in preparing for and managing the response to a catastrophic emergency event such as fire, earthquake, terrorist act, biological materials release, hazardous material spill, weather related disaster, or internal sabotage. Heavy emphasis is placed on interagency communication and coordination in emergency events. The course outlines the practical steps needed to develop an effective emergency response plan, and outlines how such a plan should be organized and executed. Prerequisite: Department approval. Restricted to level of GR.

Department: Intel Nat'l Security Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

This graduate course focuses on policy responses to bioterrorism and emerging public health threats such as pandemic flu. Topics include the science of biological weapons and threats, the history of bioterrorism and weaponization, verification and monitoring, scenario building, national security decision-making as it pertains to biothreats, and public health policy and infrastructure. Prerequisite: Department approval. Restricted to level of GR.

Department: Intel Nat'l Security Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

This graduate course examines the 11 major categories of the nation's critical infrastructure as outlined by the US Department of Homeland Security with a particular emphasis on their dimensions, operational responsibility, and unique vulnerabilities. Strategies for critical infrastructure protection will be addressed as will the means for establishing priorities for protecting key infrastructure assets. Prerequisite: Department approval. Restricted to level of GR.

Department: Intel Nat'l Security Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

An exploration of skills, values, and behaviors that contribute to success within the profession. Skills to be developed may include professional report writing, presentations, time management, project management, and others. Later units will go beyond individual skills to explore factors that affect the success of intelligence operations and organizations. Discussions of values and behaviors will include professional ethics and intelligence officers’ responsibilities towards the U.S. Constitution, policymakers, and the U.S. public. Departmental approval required.

Department: Intel Nat'l Security Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

This course introduces students to Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT), Imagery Intelligence (IMINT), and the consumption of commercial imagery by the intelligence community. From the US Army's use of balloons for reconnaissance in the Civil War to the spy planes and satellites of the Cold War and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) of today, GEOINT has actively supported military operations and the production of national intelligence during times of war and peace, including whole of government approaches to the protection of the border and critical infrastructure while also supplementing emergency responses to natural disasters.

Department: Intel Nat'l Security Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

This course provides the basic elements of statistical analytic techniques for intelligence and criminal justice allowing students to formulate and test hypotheses related to quantitative research in these fields. Students will learn to conduct analyses using statistical software, such as Excel and SPSS.

Department: Intel Nat'l Security Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

Prerequisite(s): (INSS 5300 w/B or better ) AND (SOCI 5320 w/B or better)

Practical internship experience with a governmental agency, The experience consists of at least twenty hours of work per week, under close supervision by the agency and the program advisor. A substantive paper, project, or verification of ample agency production commensurate with graduate level work is required. Departmental approval is required.

Department: Intel Nat'l Security Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
0 Lecture Hours
3 Other Hours

Prerequisite(s): (INSS 5300 w/C or better AND INSS 5304 w/C or better AND INSS 5305 w/C or better AND INSS 5306 w/C or better)

This course will address specialized intelligence and national security issues in depth. Topics vary. Program approval required.

Department: Intel Nat'l Security Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

Requires students to integrate and apply core knowledge and research skills to the analysis of a national security and intelligence problem. This course is to be taken in the student's final year in the program.

Department: Intel Nat'l Security Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

Prerequisite(s): (INSS 5300)

As part of this course, the student will successfully prepare and defend a prospectus for the M.S. thesis. The prospectus must be approved by the student's thesis committee. Failure to meet this requirement within two long semesters will preclude continuance of the student in the M.S. degree program. Prerequisite: Departmental approval. Restricted to graduate students. May be repeated for credit.

Department: Intel Nat'l Security Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
0 Lecture Hours
3 Other Hours

The student will successfully prepare and defend the M.S. thesis to his/her committee. Continuous enrollment is mandatory while working on the thesis. Prerequisite: Departmental approval and INSS 5398 with a grade of "C" or better. Restricted to graduate students. May be repeated for credit.

Department: Intel Nat'l Security Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
0 Lecture Hours
3 Other Hours

Prerequisite(s): (INSS 5398 w/P or better)

Security Studies Internship (0-0-4) Practical internship experience with a governmental agency selected in consultation with the INSS program advisor. The experience consists of at least twenty hours of work per week, under close supervision by the agency and the program advisor. A substantive paper, project, or verification of ample agency production commensurate with graduate level work is required. Departmental approval is required.

Department: Intel Nat'l Security Studies

4 Credit Hours
4 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
0 Lecture Hours
4 Other Hours

Security Studies Internship (0-0-5) Practical internship experience with a governmental agency, selected in consultation with the INSS program advisor. The experience consists of at least twenty hours of work per week, under close supervision by the agency and the program advisor. A substantive paper, project, or verification of ample agency producation commensurate with graduate level work is requied. Departmental approval is required.

Department: Intel Nat'l Security Studies

5 Credit Hours
5 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
0 Lecture Hours
5 Other Hours

Security Studies Internship (0-0-6) Practical internship experience with a governmental agency, selected in consultation with the INSS program advisor. The experience consists of at least twenty hourse of work per week, under close supervision by the agency and the program advisor. A substantive paper, project, or verification of ample agency production commensurate with graduate level work is required. Departmental approval is required.

Department: Intel Nat'l Security Studies

6 Credit Hours
6 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
0 Lecture Hours
6 Other Hours