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INTL501 Strategic Intelligence (3 semester hours)
RECOMMENDED AS THE FIRST COURSE IN THE PROGRAM. This course examines the current structure, function, capabilities, and contributions of individual U.S. national intelligence community members. Students appraise the intelligence cycle by an overview of the intelligence planning, collection, exploitation, analysis, production, and dissemination phases. The course also evaluates the intelligence oversight system, the restrictions on national intelligence community activities prescribed by federal law, executive and agency directives.
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INTL502 Collection (3 semester hours)
This course is a study of intelligence collection and information gathering. It focuses on a variety of aspects related to how both the United States and foreign nations gather and process intelligence. The student will develop a comprehensive understanding of the role collection plays in the intelligence community, how various policies affect collection, and how different intelligence agencies monitor and collect intelligence.
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INTL507 Intelligence Operations (3 semester hours)
This course provides an introduction to the theory and practice of intelligence operations. The course will focus on the intelligence resources necessary to carry out the full range of intelligence operations using the tools, techniques, and resources available to intelligence agencies.
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INTL508 Intelligence Analysis (3 semester hours)
This course focuses on intelligence analysis including the analysis of international threats to security. The course will provide students with a foundation of human cognition in an effort to help understand why we think the way we do, how we come to formulate biases, and the many analytical, perceptional, and cognitive errors we frequently make in conducting analyses. Students will be provided with a foundation from which to understand and conduct critical analysis. This course affords an opportunity to look at a variety of case studies related to both US and foreign threat analysis and action, including the evolution of responses to threats, perspectives on threat action, principles of threat analysis and response, and assessments of successes and failures of such actions. Students will develop a comprehensive knowledge of intelligence analysis, how intelligence agencies assess and counter international threats in order to guard global security interests, and how various threats affect national security policy and decision-making. (Prerequisite: SSGS500)
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INTL604 Interagency Operations (3 semester hours)
This course provides insight on how to improve interagency relationships among security, defense, and intelligence agencies. This course introduces the student to theoretical and practical material for understanding the behavior of individual organizations and what can be done to make organizations work more closely together at the federal, state, and local levels. Emphasis is placed on explaining why organizations act the way they do and how to improve interagency coordination.
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INTL610 Counterintelligence (3 semester hours)
The course focuses on both U.S. and foreign aspects of counterintelligence, including the history and evolution of counterintelligence, the differences between passive and active CI measures, principles and processes of counterintelligence and its relationship to covert action, the ethics of counterintelligence, and the evaluation of CI successes and an estimate of the damage caused by failures. The student will develop a comprehensive knowledge of the use and practices of counterintelligence, especially in protecting homeland security and national security interests against foreign adversaries. Additionally, the collection process and the changes for the future in the infusion of CI technology will be discussed.
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INTL613 Intelligence and Homeland Security (3 semester hours)
This course examines Intelligence Community responses to threats to the homeland U.S. from transnational and domestic actors. Students will examine intelligence roles and responsibilities, collaboration, information sharing, and limitations.
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INTL616 Ethical Challenges in the Intelligence Community (3 semester hours)
This course examines issues of ethics, morality, and legal principles in the context of Intelligence through an in-depth critical analysis of the primary ethical philosophies and legal doctrines as they apply to contemporary U.S. Intelligence. Students will research the moral, psychological, and legal issues pertaining to a variety of topics. The course concludes with an evaluation of an issue within the intelligence community related ethical-moral and legal choices.
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INTL621 Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) (3 semester hours)
This course examines Signals Intelligence focusing on the underlying technology of SIGINT and its application to various military and civilian intelligence questions. This course will also address contemporary issues related to the Cyber-SIGINT nexus as well as the lesser-known disciplines of MASINT, FISINT, etc. Collection platforms will be studied in relation to their inherent capabilities and application against various intelligence targets. The course is held at the unclassified, open-source level.
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INTL622 OSINT (3 semester hours)
This course constitutes an intensive introduction to OSINT and its related disciplines and will focus on the following areas: definition and nature of OSINT, OSINT policy and management, history and development of OSINT, current OSINT trends, OSINT-focused organizations, challenges, reform, and future prospects. The course constitutes an intensive introduction to OSINT and its related disciplines. (Prerequisite: SSGS500)
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INTL623 Human Intelligence (HUMINT) (3 semester hours)
This course provides an overview of HUMINT operations include mission-target analysis, operational planning, execution and evaluation, cover, security and communications, collection and reporting, and financial management. Students will be expected to demonstrate the ability to assess, articulate and defend the soundness of operational concepts, plans and budgets.
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INTL627 Advanced Geospatial Intelligence (3 semester hours)
This course will focus on advanced geospatial analytic techniques and how these techniques aid in decision making in various operational environments. This course will include study of geospatial collections and teach the application of theory and practical utilization of analytical tools, techniques and procedures. Students will be exposed to and are expected to develop an understanding of emerging technology, trends and intelligence applications within the discipline of geospatial intelligence. The course will focus on geospatial concepts, techniques, and maximize focus in geospatial in support of emergencies, national and human disasters, and national security environments. (Prerequisite: SSGS500)
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INTL628 Intelligence for Multi-Domain Operations (3 semester hours)
This course introduces students to the new military doctrine for the next 20 years. The military began implementing MDO in 2018, and is the focus of concepts, exercises, and capability development. There are five phases in MDO; compete, penetrate, dis-integrate, exploit, and re-compete. Inherent in MDO is a larger effort to collect and analyze data. Intelligence plays an essential role in the collection and analysis of data. This class looks at how intelligence will support MDO for the foreseeable future.
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INTL629 Social Media Intelligence: Its Foundations and Applications (3 semester hours)
The last ten years saw the rise of a new type of intelligence – Social Media Intelligence (SOCINT) – representing fertile ground for public and private organizations interested in collecting information regarding potential adversaries and competitors. As a result, SOCINT no longer stands as a subset of Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) but embodies a discipline of its own requiring specialized knowledge, tools, and techniques. More and more, social media permeates every facet of our lives, asking individuals to give up more of their personal information and privacy, making it imperative to understand how these companies acquire our data and ultimately use/share/sell that information. Couple this with the need to understand the legal, ethical, and privacy issues of its use by organizations acquiring this type of intelligence makes SOCINT an equally important component of the overall intelligence continuum. As different nation-states begin to weaponize social media, it will be necessary for intelligence collectors to detect and deter these attempts at influence. All these issues point to an immediate need to educate individuals charged with collecting and utilizing this dynamic form of intelligence.
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INTL631 Criminal Intelligence Analysis (3 semester hours)
This course provides the student with an introduction to the methods and techniques of criminal intelligence analysis and strategic organized crime. The rapid increase in multinational analysis and transnational organized crime, corporate drug trafficking organizations, and the impact of crime on national and international policy has created a critical need for law enforcement intelligence experts in the relatively new field of criminal intelligence. The course shows how to use criminal intelligence analysis to predict trends, weaknesses, capabilities, intentions, changes, and warnings needed to dismantle criminal organizations. This course provides knowledge needed by law enforcement professionals at the federal, state, and local level, by criminal intelligence analysts working in private industry, and by military intelligence personnel making a transition from a military to a law enforcement career. The course provides a background of the use of intelligence to dismantle criminal organizations and businesses. This course emphasizes criminal/law enforcement intelligence, as opposed to criminal investigation.
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INTL635 Indications and Warnings (3 semester hours)
The purpose of this course is to teach the student how the current I&W system is organized, how it is supposed to work in theory, and how it has actually worked in practice. In addition, students will examine the traditional and alternative approaches to the I&W process. Students will learn about the various types of intelligence indicators and how they fit into the process of intelligence prediction, which is an implied function of I&W. Students will also examine various historical case studies to learn about the four basic "sources of error" in I&W.
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INTL637 Intelligence Profiling (3 semester hours)
This course provides an overview of the analysis of political leaders. It explores various political psychological approaches to studying leaders to include biographies, psychoanalysis, traits, characteristics and motivations. Examples of specific political leaders are discussed throughout the course to offer the student a broad knowledge of world leaders. The course also provides students with a solid foundation from which to conduct their independent analysis of political leaders.
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INTL639 Predicting Public Health Threats: The Role of Medical Intelligence (3 semester hours)
The COVID-19 global pandemic has resulted in an awareness of the value of operational measures of specialized intelligence regarding public health and associated potential impacts on national defense, global security, diplomacy, and public policy. This class examines the role and function of medical intelligence (MI), as directed by U.S. functions of intelligence, public health, and safety. This class focuses on mechanisms to deliver decision advantages in support of American military operations, including the investigation and rapid implementation of control measures, and the collection and analysis of medically based evidence to promulgate preventive actions. Topics include evaluating the efficacy of strategic countermeasures for chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear weapons; analyzing the application of MI for emerging biotechnology; pandemic potential of existing diseases; biosafety and biosecurity issues; and the appraisal of the effectiveness of collaboration and information dissemination between the American intelligence and public communities, the community of American allies, and other global entities.
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INTL644 Cyber and the Intelligence Cycle (3 semester hours)
This course looks at cyber and the intelligence cycle from two perspectives. The first is the application of the classic intelligence cycle against cyber targets. The second, parallel track is the use of cyber tools to optimize intelligence operations and the intelligence cycle in particular. This course will discuss the unique role of the cyber domain in the intelligence cycle. Intelligence in cyber is comprised of different characteristics than that of space, air, land and sea. Because cyber information is transmitted instantaneously, it may affect components of the intelligence cycle (collection, analysis, dissemination, etc.) simultaneously rather than sequentially, as is the case with other intelligence collections methods. Students will discuss commercial and defense concepts associated with the intelligence cycle and enterprise information technology infrastructure. Students will also address the challenges that are created due to rapid advancing technologies and existence of multiple actors. (Recommended Prerequisite: SSGS500)
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INTL646 Transnational Crime and Narcotics (3 semester hours)
This course will provide an overview of transnational crime and narcotics and its effects on national security, political, social, and economic development of countries around the world. The focus of this class will be the proliferation and expanding influence of organized crime groups, the increasing links among crime groups, corruption, and links to terrorism from transnational crime and narcotics. This class will examine the diverse dimensions of transnational crime and narcotics in the context of increasing globalization and the exponential impact of technology advances
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INTL647 Cyber Intelligence (3 semester hours)
This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the cyber intelligence field and is intended to equip students with the essential knowledge and skills often needed to navigate the complex world of cyber threats, vulnerabilities, and risks. Students will explore the full range of cyber capabilities from exploitation to defense, including several case studies that demonstrate the challenges and benefits of cyber intelligence operations. Through discussion forums and a research project, students will gain a deeper understanding of the role cyber intelligence plays in national security and the protection of critical infrastructures.
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INTL649 Case Studies in Foreign Cyber Threats (3 semester hours)
This course will examine various case studies in Foreign Cyber Threats and explore the challenges posed by these threats. Through the review of case studies, students will become familiar with the fact that cyber threats are difficult to assess and mitigate given the existence of malicious actors, multiple motives, different but commonly used attack vectors, the internet as a shared and integrated domain, difficulty in predicting potential attacks and the damaging nature of worst-case scenarios. (Prerequisite: SSGS500)
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INTL650 Counterterrorism (3 semester hours)
This course will examine the evolution of intelligence and counterterrorism while analyzing a framework for combating terrorism. This course will focus on terrorism variables that present a problem to international and U.S. national security, suggest solutions, and provide alternatives to current counterterrorism policies. In this course, your studies will focus on a variety of aspects related to terrorism, counterterrorism, to include historical perspectives, analysis of terrorist organizations, and patterns of terrorism. You will be required to study a range of topics related to terrorism. You will read an arrangement of books and articles that will develop a comprehensive understanding of how counterterrorism impacts national security.
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INTL652 Terrorism: Assessing the Past to Forecast the Future (3 semester hours)
This course will expose the students to a variety of counter-terrorism intelligence methodologies and analytic tools, and extensive academic, government, policy literature on the challenges, opportunities, and assumptions related to forecasting terrorism. The course will provide students with the analytic capability to understand the types of terrorist threats that are most likely to confront the U.S. and its allies, in addition to challenging students to evaluate the efficacy and impact of prediction-based efforts in counter-terrorism intelligence.
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INTL653 Deception, Propaganda and Disinformation (3 semester hours)
This course provides an overview of deceptive techniques –how they work and how they can be defeated. It begins by building an understanding of fundamental psychological principles and practices and then taking a look at key information practices. From there, it will look at how some of these practices developed from WWI to the present. Throughout the course, students will be exposed to and will analyze the use of deception and other persuasion techniques in various contexts. These deceptive techniques are illustrated with a series of historical and current case studies, scenarios, and interactive simulations.
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INTL699 Intelligence Studies Capstone (3 semester hours)
The Master’s Capstone in Intelligence Studies is capstone course for graduate programs in Intelligence Studies. NOTE: This course may not be taken until all other courses are COMPLETED and student has a 3.0 GPA. THIS COURSE IS 16 WEEKS.
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INTL710 Seminar in Intelligence Integration (3 semester hours)
This seminar explores the organizational and integration issues facing the U.S. Intelligence Community by first evaluating underlying organizational design and theory of communities and organizations. Using organizational design as a point of reference, the seminar examines the nature of the community and its relationship to its operating environment by delving into the present-day issues facing the Intelligence Community in relation to the ever-changing global threat and the wide array of intelligence customers requiring more timely and tailored intelligence services. Lastly, given an understanding of the present-day operating environment, the seminar concludes by identifying and evaluating the vertical and integration issues facing the community while examining some potential transformation models to better posture the Intelligence Community for the future. This course is one of two required beginning courses. (Corequisite: SSGS700)
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INTL711 Comparative Intelligence Institutions (3 semester hours)
This course examines in comparative perspective the intelligence communities of various states around the globe, to include both allies and adversaries of the United States. Course content covers how various intelligence agencies are structured, how they formulate their respective national interests, and how they address transnational problems and cultivate potential for cross-national cooperation. Students will evaluate these issues within the perspective of strategic culture, while also learning about fundamental aspects of intelligence gathering, including core problems and criticisms, and considering the differences between global approaches to intelligence. (Prerequisite: SSGS700 and INTL710)
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INTL712 US Intelligence Law and Ethics (3 semester hours)
This seminar examines ethics in U.S. government intelligence-related decision-making, the conduct of intelligence activities, and oversight, regarding hackers and intelligence leaks. It also examines the role that the law plays in the basic U.S. intelligence authorities in oversight and decision-making, and the ways in which these authorities and decision-making influence the development of new legal frameworks. (Prerequisite: SSGS711)
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INTL740 Intelligence Cooperation and Sharing (3 semester hours)
This seminar examines the relationship within and amongst the various U.S. domestic intelligence organizations, other domestic organizations, and foreign intelligence and law enforcement organizations. It also addresses some of the challenges face regarding cooperation and sharing information. Several case studies are provided to illustrate areas of cooperation and sharing. (Prerequisites: SSGS711)
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INTL741 Intelligence and Policy-Making (3 semester hours)
This seminar explores the dynamics of one of the most fundamental relationships that drives the Intelligence Community—that of the Intelligence Community and the policy-maker. The seminar first explores the theoretical principles on the relationship between the intelligence professional and the policy-maker and then examines the underlying formal and informal structures that are utilized to facilitate these relationships. The seminar endeavors to illustrate the inherent friction and perspectives between the Intelligence Community and the policy-maker while exploring some of the potential “best practices” and principles to optimize the relationship. The seminar concludes with an examination of how the intelligence professional and the policy-maker can prioritize and function within a rapidly changing global environment. (Prerequisites: SSGS711)
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INTL743 Intelligence and Technology (3 semester hours)
The seminar focuses on the role and influence of technology. Specifically, it examines the advances in technology and the impact they have on U.S. intelligence and security. Strategies for addressing the impact are also addressed. (Prerequisites: SSGS711)
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INTL790 Independent Study (3 semester hours)
This course is an opportunity to pursue an independent research project under the mentorship and direction of a faculty member. A research proposal and timeline must be submitted and approved by the faculty member and Doctoral Director in advance of enrollment. (Prerequisites: SSGS711)
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