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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. 
Courses in Intelligence Analysis will be available as electives to students in the other master's programs.

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
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