Program Structure / Description

Program Structure

Intelligence Analysis is designed as a two academic year, four semester program. To complete all coursework in two academic years, the student would either take three courses per semester (except two in the final semester), or take up to three courses during the summer semester(s) while taking two per semester during fall and winter.

Program Description

The Master of Science Degree in Intelligence Analysis is a 33 credit program designed to train the student to gather information from a wide variety of sources, including:

• open sources, such as published data bases and newspapers, and journals
• and also through interviewing of various human assets,

and to analyze that information and prepare reports and recommendations focusing on the implications and applications of that information to various security and crime control situations.

The program is designed as a rigorous sequence of courses that includes a basic core of required courses and a series of supporting elective courses.

The six required courses expose the students to both fundamental and advanced concepts and analytical techniques related to intelligence and crime and threat-related information; the elective courses are designed to help the student prepare for more specific applications in the fields of

• law enforcement,
• national security,
• private security (counter-terrorism),
• and competitive intelligence.