School of Data Intell and Tech
Graduate

Term: Spring 2025
Session: Full Term (Jan 21 - May 09)
Start Date: Tuesday, Jan 21, 2025
End Date: Friday, May 09, 2025
Availability: On Campus
Day(s): Wed.
Time: 06:00 PM to 08:50 PM

?Intelligence Studies? is a three-hour course designed to give students a comprehensive overview of intelligence and the role it plays in confronting security challenges to the United States today. The course will provide the student with an overview of intelligence a history of intelligence in the United States and the United States Intelligence Community (USIC). In addition the Intelligence Cycle and its components along with writing and briefing for the intelligence community will be examined. The student will also become familiar with the arcane and misunderstood world of Counterintelligence and Covert Action and how these techniques have been used as instruments of national power. This course will require the student to think critically about course topics and demonstrate an understanding of intelligence. Real life examples drawn from history will be used to examine where intelligence was leveraged well and not so well---in each instance. The course will require the student to collect evaluate and brief collected intelligence on a modern- day intelligence problem. Discussion will ensure that the students have grasped the underlying principles and methodologies. The instructor will supplement the case studies with lectures on key intelligence topics i.e. counterintelligence covert action cyber operations foreign threats penetration tactics double agent operations cyber operations criminal intelligence and laws governing intelligence activity. It is essential that students complete the assigned readings before each class and be prepared to discuss them.