Curriculum & Courses

Program Components

The curriculum in Intelligence Analysis has the following five components:

1. Methodological courses in research and crime mapping;
2. Background courses in the nature of conflict and terrorism;
3. Courses in interviewing and threat assessment;
4. A specialized track (in either profiling, physical and personnel security, or policy analysis);
5. A thesis or capstone project in which the student applied what has been learned in the program to the analysis of a problem of his or her choosing. 

Intelligence Analysis Masters Program - (11 Courses, 3 credits each)

Required Courses

• INT 500 Research Methods
• INT 501 Spatial Analysis and Mapping
• INT 502 Terrorism
• INT 503 Homeland Security and Threat Assessment
• INT 504 Roots of 21st Century Conflict
• INT 505 Intelligence Acquisition: Debriefing and Interviewing Techniques

Required Elective (Track)

(Must choose one)

• INT 510 Policy Analysis and Strategy Creation (Federal Enforcement)
• INT 511 Physical and Personnel Security (Private Security)
• INT 512 Profiling and Behavioral Forecasting (Crime Analysis)

Recommended Electives

• INT 542 Leadership and Behavior in Organizational Intelligence
• INT 550 Topics in Intelligence
• SEC 599 Seminar in Security Issues

Other Elective

• 1 course from  INT, CJS, SEC, or MBA

Projects 

• INT 598 (New) - Thesis or Research Capstone Project