| Master of Arts in Intelligence Studies |
The Master of Arts in Intelligence Studies provides professional, graduate-level academic education in the interdisciplinary field of intelligence studies. The program's core courses impart substantive knowledge and analytic skills required by all professionals in the intelligence community. Students may also pursue concentrated study in functional areas, regional studies, or intelligence sub-fields. Student learning is greatly enhanced by the diversity of program professors with strong professional and academic backgrounds in intelligence studies, many who currently work in the US National Intelligence Community. Degree Program Objectives In addition to the institutional and degree level outcome objectives, the Master of Intelligence Studies seeks the following specific learning outcomes of its graduates. Graduates in this degree program will be able to: Examine the evolution, structures, functions, capabilities, and activities of the national intelligence community. Explain the structures, functions, capabilities, and contributions of national intelligence consumers to include the national command authority, executive departments, Congress, military services, joint/unified commands, and law enforcement agencies. Appraise the intelligence cycle, including intelligence planning, data collection, data exploitation, analysis, production, and dissemination phases. Investigate the fundamental capabilities, limitations, and means of tasking human, geographic/imagery, signals, measurement and technical and open intelligence data sources. Assess and predict traditional and non-traditional threats to national and international security. Conduct advanced research and compose professional and academic analyses on issues critical to intelligence consumers. Evaluate the latest techniques and procedures for improving interagency cooperation and intelligence sharing.
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Degree Program Requirements | Core Courses (15 semester hours) | | | | | - RC506 / INTL500 - Research Methods in Security and Intelligence Studies
- IN500 / INTL501 - Strategic Intelligence
- IN519 / INTL502 - Collection
- IN520 / INTL503 - Analytic Methods
- NS610 / INTL604 - Interagency Operations
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| Major Courses (12 semester hours) | | | | | All students must complete four courses within either the General Program or a concentration. Students enrolled in a general program (no concentration) must take four courses from the General Program list. Students enrolled in a concentration must complete four courses from within the concentration list. General Program - For students who do not wish to seek a concentration. - IN508 / INTL611 - Deception in War
- IN516 / INTL612 - Propaganda and Disinformation
- IN547 / INTL613 - Intelligence and Homeland Security
- IN514 / INTL615 - History of the Central Intelligence Agency
- IN549 / INTL617 - Competitive Intelligence
- IN575 / INTL618 - Intelligence Leadership, Management, and Coordination
- IN607 / INTL619 - Evolution of the US National Intelligence Community
- OC503 / INTL630 - Security and Intelligence Data Analysis
- IN608 / INTL631 - Criminal Intelligence Analysis
- OC501 / INTL638 - Critical Analytical Thinking
- IN527 / INTL640 - Intelligence and National Security
- LC514 / INTL651 - Roots of Terrorism
- LC537 / INTL654 - Forecasting Terrorism
- IN512 / INTL660 - Middle East Intelligence Issues
- IN545 / INTL661 - Intelligence Issues in Latin America
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Concentration in Competitive Intelligence
Concentration Objective
Upon successful completion of this concentration, the student will be able to apply intelligence processes and procedures in the commercial community. |
| Concentration Requirements (12 semester hours) | | | | | - IN549 / INTL617 - Competitive Intelligence (required in this concentration)
Select 9 hours from the following courses: - DM624 / BUSN623 - Legal and Ethical Issues in Management
- DM626 / BUSN625 - Applied Decision Making
- DM606 / FINC600 - Corporate Finance
- IN528 / INTL637 - Intelligence Profiling
- CR537 / SCMT537 - Computer Crime
- CR538 / SCMT538 - Industrial Espionage
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Concentration in Criminal Intelligence
Concentration Objective
Upon successful completion of this concentration, the student will be able to apply intelligence processes and procedures in the criminal justice community. |
| Concentration Requirements (12 semester hours) | | | | | - IN608 / INTL631 - Criminal Intelligence Analysis (required in this concentration)
Select 9 hours from the following: - CR506 / CMRJ506 - International Crime
- CR518 / CMRJ518 - Deviant Behavior
- CR522 / CMRJ522 - Forensics
- CR524 / CMRJ524 - Organized Crime
- CR531 / CMRJ531 - Criminal Profiling
- IN547 / INTL613 - Intelligence and Homeland Security
- IN505 / INTL645 - Intelligence and the War on Drugs
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Concentration in Homeland Security
Concentration Objective
Upon successful completion of this concentration, the student will be able to apply intelligence processes and procedures in the defense of the US homeland. |
| Concentration Requirements (12 semester hours) | | | | | - NS510 / HLSS501 - Homeland Defense (required in this concentration)
- IN547 / INTL613 - Intelligence and Homeland Security (required in this concentration)
Select 6 hours from the following courses: - LC535 / HLSS522 - Weapons of Mass Destruction and the New Terrorism
- LC522 / HLSS523 - Domestic Terrorism and Extremist Groups
- IN505 / INTL645 - Intelligence and the War on Drugs
- LC514 / INTL651 - Roots of Terrorism
- LC537 / INTL654 - Forecasting Terrorism
- IN544 / INTL655 - Intelligence and Weapons of Mass Destruction
- DM645 / HLSS645 - Port Security
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Concentration in Information Warfare
Concentration Objective
Upon successful completion of this concentration, the student will have the ability to effectively influence behavior, deter or end conflict, and if required, to win a conflict rapidly and decisively with minimal loss of life and assets. |
| Concentration Requirements (18 semester hours) | | | | | - IN504 / INTL640 - Information Warfare
- IN508 / INTL611 - Deception in War
- IN516 / INTL612 - Propaganda and Disinformation
- IN523 / INTL635 - Indications and Warnings
- IN576 / INTL648 - Electronic Warfare I
- IN577 / INTL687 - Electronic Warfare II
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Concentration in Intelligence Analysis
Concentration Objective
Upon successful completion of this concentration, the student will be able to apply advanced intelligence analysis methods in composing professional and academic analyses on issues critical to intelligence community consumers. |
| Concentration Requirements (12 semester hours) | | | | | - OC503 / INTL630 - Security and Intelligence Data Analysis (required in this concentration)
Select 9 hours from the following courses:
- IN608 / INTL631 - Criminal Intelligence Analysis
- IN635 / INTL632 - Geographic Information Systems and Spatial Analysis I
- IN636 / INTL633 - Advanced Geographic Information Systems and Spatial Analysis II
- IN517 / INTL634 - Threat Analysis
- IN523 / INTL635 - Indications and Warning
- IN529 / INTL636 - Regional Threat Analysis
- IN528 / INTL637 - Intelligence Profiling
- LC537 / INTL654 - Forecasting Terrorism
- NS508 / NSEC505 - Foreign Policy and Security Analysis
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Concentration in Intelligence Collection
Contentration Objective
Upon successful completion of this concentration, the student will be able to apply advanced intelligence data collection methods in supporting analyses on issues critical to intelligence community consumers. |
| Concentration Requirements (12 semester hours) | | | | | - IN521 / INTL620 - Terrain and Weather Intelligence
- IN634 / INTL621 - Signals Intelligence
- IN633 / INTL623 - Human Intelligence
- IN513 / INTL625 - Imagery Intelligence
- IN637 / INTL626 - Scientific and Technical Intelligence
- IN635 / INTL632 - Geographic Information Systems and Spatial Analysis I
- IN636 / INTL633 - Advanced Geographic Information Systems and Spatial Analysis II
- IN528 / INTL637 - Intelligence Profiling
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Concentration in Intelligence Operations
Concentration Objective
Upon successful completion of this concentration, the student will be able to employ intelligence management skills required by planning and management positions in the intelligence community. |
| Concentration Requirements (12 semester hours) | | | | | - IN607 / INTL619 - Evolution of the US National Intelligence Community (required in this concentration)
Select 9 hours from the following courses:
- IN504 / INTL642 - Information Warfare
- IN505 / INTL645 - Intelligence and the War on Drugs
- IN509 / INTL610 - Counterintelligence
- IN527 / INTL640 - Intelligence and National Security
- IN535 / INTL641 - Intelligence and Low Intensity Conflict
- IN542 / INTL616 - Ethics in Intelligence/Ethical Challenges in the Intelligence Community
- IN544 / INTL655 - Intelligence and Weapons of Mass Destruction
- IN547 / INTL613 - Intelligence and Homeland Security
- IN575 / INTL618 - Intelligence Leadership, Management and Coordination
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Concentration in Middle Eastern Studies
Concentration Objective
Upon successful completion of this concentration the student will be able to appraise the contemporary threats to Middle Eastern societies and regional security. |
| Concentration Requirements (12 semester hours) | | | | | - IN512 / INTL660 - Middle East Intelligence Issues (required in this concentration)
Select 9 semester hours from the following: - IN529 / INTL636 - Regional Threat Analysis
- IN535 / INTL641 - Intelligence in Low Intensity Operations
- LC514 / INTL651 - Roots of Terrorism
- NS553 / IRLS661 - Politics and Security in the Persian Gulf
- NS551 / IRLS662 - Middle Eastern Culture
- NS552 / IRLS663 - Islam
- MS670 / MILH667 - Arab-Israeli Conflict: Contemporary Politics/Diplomacy
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Concentration in Political - Military Intelligence
Concentration Objective
Upon successful completion of this concentration the student will be able to appraise the contemporary threats to US national and international security. |
| Concentration Requirements (12 semester hours) | | | | | - IN527 / INTL640 - Intelligence and National Security (required in this concentration)
- NS505 / NSEC502 - Concepts of National Security (required in this concentration)
Select 6 hours from the following courses: - IN505 / INTL645 - Intelligence and the War on Drugs
- IN535 / INTL641 - Intelligence in Low Intensity Operations
- IN544 / INTL655 - Intelligence and Weapons of Mass Destruction
- NS500 / NSEC503 - U.S. National Security
- NS504 / NSEC504 - International Security
- NS508 / NSEC505 - Foreign Policy and Security Analysis
- NS620 / NSEC610 - National Security and Globalization
- NS630 / NSEC612 - National Security and Diplomacy
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Concentration in Terrorism Studies
Concentration Objective
Upon successful completion of this concentration the student will be able to appraise the causes of and threats from US domestic and international terrorism. |
| Concentration Requirements (12 semester hours) | | | | | - LC514 / INTL651 - Roots of Terrorism (required in this concentration)
- LC537 / INTL654 - Forecasting Terrorism (required in this concentration)
Select 6 hours from the following courses:
- IN547 / INTL613 - Intelligence and Homeland Security
- IN585 / INTL614 - Assassination: History, Theory, and Practice
- IN523 / INTL635 - Indications and Warnings
- IN528 / INTL637 - Intelligence Profiling
- IN525 / INTL650 - Counterterrorism
- LC535 / HLSS522 - Weapons of Mass Destruction and the New Terrorism
- LC522 / HLSS523 - Domestic Terrorism and Extremist Groups
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| Graduate Electives (9 semester hours) | | | | | From other courses not taken to meet required, core, or major requirements. | | | | |
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| End of Program Requirement - Select either Comprehensive Exam OR Capstone | | | | | - IN700 / INTL698 - Separate Comprehensive Examination [0 semester hours] - Taken once all other degree requirements have been met.
- IN701 / INTL699 - Master’s Capstone Seminar in Strategic Intelligence [3 semester hours] - The Capstone Seminar will satisfy an Elective requirement
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Total hours: 36 semester hours |
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