INT 500 Research Methodology
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This course is an introduction to social science research methods and to introductory statistics. Methods are distinct recursive ways of gathering information. Statistics are numerical procedures for navigating, describing, and drawing inferences from existing information. Therefore methods and statistics are symbiotic topics. | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
INT 501 Spatial Analysis and Mapping
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This course will discuss the integral role of technology in the field of criminology and introduce the concept of data-driven decision making by exploring concepts from police administration, organizational management, operations research, information systems, and criminology. This course will also examine practical examples where institutions have both failed and succeeded in the endeavor to utilize both technology and data driven decisions to resolve problems and effect positive change. | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
INT 502 Terrorism: Theory and Practice
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Much of what we struggle to do in our growth and development as scholars, boils down to looking under the surface of phenomena. This course offers a comparative analysis of theories of Terrorism and its repercussions. Emphasis is placed upon current and future problems experienced and anticipated by Counter-terrorist Agencies. Explanations of the phenomenon at various levels of analysis, as well as the future of Terrorism will be discussed and debated. | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
INT 503 Homeland Security and Threat Assessment
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This course will discuss the concept of Homeland Security not from the perspective of the would be terrorist but from the point of view of those who are tasked with the responsibility of terrorism counteraction. This course will also introduce the student to techniques of Homeland Security, Force Field Analysis, Nonlinear Thinking and Threat Harmonics that are just mentioned in other courses by focusing on the theories and practices that come from law enforcement, security management, operations research, and criminology. This course will also examine practical examples where Homeland Security personnel have both failed and succeeded in their endeavors to utilize both theory and practice to resolve problems and effect positive change. | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
INT 504 Roots of 21st Century Conflict
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The end of the “Cold War Geopolitical Order” in 1990 has led to the emergence of a still to be defined new global order, characterized by both increased globalization and fragmentation. Post cold-war conflicts, in turn, often hearken back to conflicts of a pre-cold war era, which has been characterized as “Inter-Imperial Rivalry.” The goal of this course is to get a “big picture” view of the defining events of the 20th century, and to trace the connections among these events and a variety of modern conflicts. A “social cube” model of ethnopolitical conflicts will be used as a heuristic for examining the effects of various defining events. Examples of "defining events" include: origins of WWI, the Russian Revolution, the Versailles Treaty and the League of Nations, the Great Depression, the rise of Fascism, the origins of WWII, Stalinism and the Cold War, Israel and the origins of the Palestinian/Arab conflict, the Civil Rights and Women’s movements, and globalization of the world economy. | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
INT 505 Intelligence Acquisition: Debriefing and Interviewing
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The purpose of this course is to provide a foundation for understanding how interviews and interrogations are conducted. This course will approach interviewing from a number of perspectives: legal, psychological, scientific, research based, and ethical. The goal will be to understand the methods and techniques that are utilized by investigators to obtain information through interviewing. | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
INT 512 Profiling and Behavior Forecasting
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An examination of criminal profiling, including crime scene profiling (both inductive and deductive), psychological profiling, and offender profiling. Discussion of use of ethnic and racial traits in profiling. Equivocal death analysis, geographic profiling, and threat assessment aspects of profiling also looked at through a biopsychosocial model of behavior. | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
INT 542 Leadership and Behavior in Organizational Intelligence
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This course will provide an overview of leadership and organizational behavior in intelligence gathering organizations (private and governmental). Major topics to be reviewed are: major managerial theorists, distinctions between private/public sector management, challenges facing the intelligence profession, learning and communicating, use of organizational development (OD), motivation, budgeting, screening of employees, hiring, disciplinary issues, supervisory relationships, use of "emotional intelligence" theory, coaching, human resources and program evaluation. | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
INT 550 Topics in Intelligence
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This course will discuss the contemporary issues that are relevant to Intelligence, Homeland Security, and Terrorism. This course will also introduce the student to concepts of Intelligence and information acquisition that are just mentioned in other courses by exploring cases and practices from law enforcement, organizational management, operations research, information systems, and criminology. This course will also examine the factors both manifest and latent that influence terrorism or other negative acts. Topics will include but not limited to: Suicide bombings; Weapons of mass destruction; Asymmetrical Warfare; The Nebulous nature of terrorism; Current issues. | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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