Intelligence (INTL)
INTL 115 Critical Thinking and Analysis 3 Credits (3,0)
Critical thinking and analytical methodologies in intelligence. Cognitive and perceptual biases, structured analytic techniques, and their strengths and weaknesses.
INTL 199 Special Topics in Intelligence 1-6 Credit (1-6,0)
Individual, independent, or directed studies of selected topics in intelligence.
INTL 250 Indications and Warning 3 Credits (3,0)
Indications and warning, its evolution, and its critical role in national and homeland security. The duty to warn, threat identification and assessment, and the means of providing decision-makers with the detail and context necessary for prevention, preemption, deterrence, or response. The history of warning; lessons learned from warning failures; warning's evolution; the methodologies and methodological issues associated with warning; and the structural, cognitive, and psychological issues affecting warning analysis.
INTL 299 Special Topics in Intelligence 1-6 Credit (1-6,0)
Individual, independent, or directed studies of selected topics in intelligence.
INTL 315 Studies in Intelligence I 3 Credits (3,0)
Analysis of how strategic intelligence shapes world policy and events. Topics include intelligence collection, analysis, dissemination, and counterintelligence operations.
INTL 350 Intelligence Systems and Structures in Homeland Security 3 Credits (3,0)
Appraises intelligence collection, analysis, and dissemination within national and state policy frameworks. Explores U.S. intelligence history and legislative developments in national security strategy.
INTL 385 Intelligence Collection and Analysis 3 Credits (3,0)
Practical experience in intelligence analysis, writing, and briefing. Focus on analytical methodologies for explaining complex world events to decision-makers.
INTL 399 Special Topics in Intelligence 1-6 Credit (1-6,0)
Individual, independent, or directed studies of selected topics in intelligence.
INTL 405 Intelligence and Emerging Security Issues 3 Credits (3,0)
Emerging national security, homeland security, and intelligence issues. Bayesian and scenario analysis. Domestic and foreign policy implications. Threats and opportunities on each topic.
INTL 406 Geographic Information Systems and Intelligence 3 Credits (3,0)
Spatial data analysis activities from data acquisition and manipulation to spatial data visualization using graphs; GIS theory and its intelligence applications with a specific focus on Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT); uses of spatial data and applications of GIS, including but not limited to disaster response, emergency management, and GEOINT applications by the military, humanitarian, and government organizations to inform decision-making and crisis management. Retrieval, storage, manipulation, and display of spatial data; computer-based applications using ArcGIS software.
INTL 470 Experiential Learning 3 Credits (3,0)
Interactive simulations, exercises, and games involving planning, collection, exploitation, analysis, and dissemination of intelligence and homeland security concepts and techniques.
INTL 488 National Security Issues and Terrorism 3 Credits (3,0)
Analysis of terrorism and low-intensity conflict. Focus on ideological, ethnic, and religious factors driving terrorism and strategies for countering it.
INTL 499 Special Topics in Intelligence 1-6 Credit (1-6,0)
Individual, independent, or directed studies of selected topics in intelligence.