Curriculum
National Security Courses
We offer six graduate-level courses on topics of national security and intelligence studies. All courses are taught by current or former employees of the national security sector.
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NS 6003 The Role of U.S. Intelligence in National Security
Required for the MSDA CTSP Track and the Graduate Certificate in Intelligence Studies Typically Offered in Spring and Summer semesters after 6PM
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NS 6223 Analytical Writing, Reporting and Briefing for the Intelligence Community
Required for the Graduate Certificate in Intelligence Studies. Typically Offered in Summer semesters after 6PM
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NS 6503 Intelligence Reasoning and Analysis
Required for the Graduate Certificate in Intelligence Studies. May count towards MSDA CTSP Track credit. Typically Offered in Fall and Spring semesters after 6PM.
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NS 6523 Methods in Intelligence Collection
Required for the Graduate Certificate in Intelligence Studies. Does not count towards MSDA CTSP Track credit. Typically Offered in Fall and Spring semesters after 6PM.
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NS 6233 Analytic Methods, Interpretation, Writing and Briefing of Intelligence
Required for the MSDA CTSP Track. Does not count towards Graduate Certificate in Intelligence Studies credit. Typically offered in Summer semesters after 6PM.
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NS 6723 National Security and Human-Digital Technology Relationships
May count for credit in the MSDA CTSP Track. Does not count towards the Graduate Certificate in Intelligence Studies. Typically offered in the Fall after 6PM.
Course Description: No prerequisites. One of the recent key emerging areas of research is the role of psychological, social and cultural processes in cyber conflict. Following the kill chain upstream you will find at the end a human with motivations and objectives. This course examines a number of critical elements involved in the relationship between humans and digital technology as it relates to cyber and national security, including the role that motivations for malicious online acts and how social dynamics affect the emergence of relationships between non-nation state actors and nation states, the evolving nature of social movements and communities online and the emergence of cyberterrorism as a new entrant into the cyber threat matrix.
