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Course Criteria
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0.00 - 3.00 Credits
3 Credits This course is designed to familiarize the intelligence professional with how major events and systemic changes occur in the international system through wars and revolutions. It also examines political changes that occur in a slower, more evolutionary way. In both cases, the approach is through a study of historical and contemporary examples. The signals that political systems give off as they approach major structural change are examined in some detail, as are the structures of revolutions and conventional and unconventional wars, including asymmetrical wars. Social and economic trends that shape more evolutionary political change are also studied. All forms of change in the international system are of importance to the intelligence analyst, who must warn the policy community of anticipated developments of importance to the government and, subsequently, explain the implications of what has occurred. The course will enable the student to understand predictive analysis and modeling and provide analytical tools with which to deal with changing events. Prerequisites: SS 110 and 235; SIS 315; or permission of the instructor.
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0.00 - 3.00 Credits
3 Credits This course provides the student with an opportunity to focus more deeply on a region of the world, a particular culture or period in history, or a specific international problem. The topic covered by the course in a particular semester will vary according to student and program needs. The regions to be covered on an as-needed basis will include Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. Alternatively, the course could focus on a topic such as Islam in the contemporary world, the weaponization of space, the implications of world migratory patterns, changing issues in international development, or the spread and implications of pandemics. Students may repeat the course in order to study another region or topical area. Prerequisites: SS 110 and 235; or permission of the instructor.
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0.00 - 3.00 Credits
3 Credits This course will examine the whole arena of intelligence and technology, beginning with the World War II period, when science and technology came to play a critical role in intelligence. The course will cover technical intelligence collection methodologies and systems, the use of aircraft and space-based vehicles as collection platforms for photo-optical and digital imagery, radar imaging, infrared and multi-spectral imagery, signals intelligence, etc. The course will provide a technical understanding of these methodologies, as well as an analysis of their place in all-source collection. The course will also examine the current development and implications of intelligence technologies, such as the emergent UAV systems. Prerequisite: SIS 315 or permission of the instructor.
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0.00 - 3.00 Credits
3 Credits This course will introduce the student to the history of terrorism, from the 19th century up to the present day. It will evaluate the causes of terrorism, the capabilities and limitations of terrorist groups, the requisites of effective counterterrorism responses, and the future prospects of terrorism. It will address the implications of terrorism and asymmetrical warfare for U.S. national security, including the possible use of weapons of mass destruction. The constitutional and legal implications of counterterrorist strategies will also be discussed. It will examine the organization, objectives, and methodologies of key terrorist groups operating in the 21st century, particularly those showing ideological hardening, religious revivalism, and ethnic militancy. Prerequisites: SS 110 and SS 235.
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0.00 - 3.00 Credits
3 Credits Basic instruction in personal security through historical, technological, and practical education and training in the art and science of personal security awareness and defense for the professional. A comprehensive education on firearms history, laws, mechanics and ballistics, technology, current events, cultural philosophies and psychology, and very large emphasis on safety from varying perspectives. This is a two-phase course in which phase one is mandatory and phase two is an optional lab.
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0.00 - 3.00 Credits
3 Credits This course is designed to strengthen the student's analytical and communications skills, preparatory to a career in intelligence and corporate security arenas. The course will enable the student to understand predictive analysis and modeling and will provide analytical tools with which to deal with changing events. Included among the latter are computerbased analytical programs currently used intensively in the intelligence community, as well as familiarity with intelligence and warning matrices and link analysis. The student also is trained to write intelligence briefs and required to practice this style and format under short deadlines. The student also will write a longer intelligence assessment and then brief that to the class.
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0.00 - 3.00 Credits
3 Credits An analysis of 21st-century international security issues related to scientific and technological change. Topics include the nature of security-economic, sociocultural, and military; political leadership/followership, decision making, and conflict resolution; political violence, especially terrorism and ethnic conflict; intelligence and counterintelligence analysis and operations; weapons proliferation; information warfare; the politics of international organized crime; bureaucratic evil; internal dislocation and immigration; and the politics of public health. A special focus throughout the course will be on the aviation and aerospace industries: policies and operations, safety, and security. This course will emphasize science, technology, and globalization as the environment in which concepts of international security evolve and as impacted by international security phenomena. Prerequisites: College-level psychology and college-level history or permission of instructor.
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0.00 - 3.00 Credits
3 Credits This course is designed to introduce students to the contingencies and conflicts posed by the intersection of security and environmental issues, including disputes over ground water rights, international rivers, scarce energy resources, manipulation of crop gene pools, genetically modified crops, global migration, international treaties and conventions on environmental issues, and global climate change. Students will be introduced to environmental issues that pose significant security risks to a nation, affect a nation's economic wellbeing and/or military preparedness, and pose challenges to those laws governing the protection of the natural environment. Ethical issues will also be addressed, particularly as these relate to policy making on issues that span both environmental and security concerns. Prerequisite: SIS 315 or permission of the instructor.
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0.00 - 3.00 Credits
3 Credits This course will focus on the security requirements of corporations, in both the domestic and international arenas. Among the topics addressed are personnel security, due diligence in hiring, physical security and access controls, government classification systems and requirements, political and security risk analysis, and corporate crisis and emergency planning and management. Included in the international sphere will be stakeholder analysis; the implications of cultural factors, legal systems, and international criminal threats; emergency extraction methodologies and actors; and kidnap and rescue. In addition, the course will develop approaches to competitive intelligence. This is the use of methods in the legal domain and using open source information to seek out and analyze the strategic plans of one's competitors, of their intended actions and investments, methods of operation, and corporate financial position. Prerequisites: SIS 312 and 315; or permission of the instructor.
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0.00 - 3.00 Credits
3 Credits This course provides an intensive, semester-long simulation for teams of students assuming the roles of political, military, economic, or scientific and technological intelligence case officers. Through the semester-long immersion with an intelligence tasking, students will be expected to demonstrate sophistication with case officer-agent relationships; staffing and coordination involving the various combinations in one's intelligence station, among stations, and between one's station and regional and central headquarters; intelligence briefings, executive summaries, and estimates; credibility and risk analysis, both of sources and of recommendations concerning specific covert action, espionage, and counterintelligence operations; operations/physical/communications/ personnel securities; and the intelligence opportunities, limitations, and threats presented by today's era of globalization. Prerequisite: SIS 315 or permission of the instructor.
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