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INT 5000 Methods in Intelligence
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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 | | |
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INT 5010 Spatial Analysis & 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 | | |
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INT 5020 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 | | |
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INT 5030 Homeland Sec & Threat Assess
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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 | | |
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INT 5040 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 | | |
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INT 5050 Intelligence Acquisition
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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 | | |
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INT 5120 Profiling/Behavioral Forecast
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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 | | |
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INT 5190 Literature and Crime
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This course will discuss the unique relationship that exists between literature and crime. This course will also discuss the dynamic facets of crime through the reading of literary works. The symbiotic nature of crime and literature will be constructed through an interactive process. The mystery of this symbiosis will be uncovered by drawing on the combined knowledge of the past, present and future.<p>
This course will also examine practical examples of forensic literary analysis that have been applied to real world situations that have led to discovery and attribution. This is not a class in literary criticism, but instead a course in the use of literature as a tool to understanding crime and criminological theory, taught by a criminologist.< | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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INT 5200 Data Mining & Reporting
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This course will discuss the threefold model of data mining, predictive analysis, and effective communication and dissemination of viable intelligence. This course will also introduce the intelligence student to the techniques of data mining, case linkage, and definitive attribution, while understanding the concepts of data integrity, open and closed sources, and fluid profiles with dynamic correction. Current issues in data collection will be examined and the ethical concerns in data mining will be discussed and debated. This course will teach the student how to draw upon the combined strengths of technology, experience, education and intuition to connect the dots and reveal the patterns that lay within the puzzle of the data mining. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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INT 5420 Leadership & Behavior Org Int
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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 | | |
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INT 5500 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 | | |
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INT 5770 Intelligence Led Policing
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This course will uncover the foundational theories of Intelligence Led Policing and Data Driven Deployment. This course will offer a detailed analysis of the functions of law enforcement agencies and the axioms that should guide their actions in the new millennium. This course will focus on such topics as Emergency Management, G.I.S Mapping, Police and Media Relations, Police Subcultures, Suicide by Cop, and Policing in the Age of Terrorism. Special consideration will be given to any relevant topics that may arise during the semester that may lend themselves to class discussion. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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INT 5980 Capstone Project
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What is a Capstone? Why is it important? What does it mean to be a professional? What are the core knowledge, skills and abilities (KSA's) in Intelligence? These core questions and others will be addressed and answered by this course. This course offers the student the golden opportunity to exercise the knowledge, skills and abilities that were placed into them by the program. It also offers the student the opportunity to show potential employers that not only can they talk the talk of intelligence; they can walk the walk of real world analysis. The purpose of the this course is to allow the student to integrate the knowledge gained from the courses that constitute the Intelligence Analysis Master¿s Degree by selecting a real-world intelligence related problem or issue and producing a strategic report detailing the issue and proposing and evaluating possible responses to it. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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