CURRICULUM

This course will examine applications of probability, statistics, data analysis, hypothesis testing, apportionment and scheduling to the applied sciences.

Technical Communications is a comprehensive course that provides an overview of written and oral communication, as well as group dynamics. The course aims to equip students with an interest in STEM disciplines with the necessary knowledge and skills to communicate effectively and efficiently with clients, managers, and colleagues within their respective fields. Students apply quantitative reasoning skills from STEM fields in the context of effective communication. These skills are taught from the perspectives of clients, managers, and colleagues, ensuring a well-rounded approach to technical communication. The course assignments and case studies facilitate the establishment of associations between technical knowledge, optimum communication practices, and quantitative reasoning.

A sustained study of ethical issues that arise in relation to employment in the public and private sectors, including allocation of resources, corporate and social responsibility, relationships, and discrimination. This course is a designated writing emphasis course. A main focus of this course will be on the ethical and legal standards governing information technology. New technology creates ethical challenges for individuals around the globe, and applies to most persons regardless of whether they are employed in the information technology field or a more traditional occupation.

Examines American political ideas from colonial times to the present.

INTV 305 will provide a broad overview of the American intelligence systems - collection, analysis, counterintelligence, and covert operations - and demonstrate how these systems work together to provide a "decision advantage" for policy makers. Students will also learn how US adversaries have shifted away from directly challenging American forces and have moved to a less risky hybrid warfare model to achieve their tactical and strategic goals. Students will use a combination of research and critical thinking exercises to gain an understanding of importance of how intelligence is used to inform the decision-making process as well as how to detect and guard against adversarial information operations designed manipulate information to induce decision makers to act against their own best interests.

INTV 326 will provide students with an introduction to Intelligence Analysis and how intelligence professionals can incorporate tradecraft, including critical thinking and structured analytical techniques, to challenge judgements, identify mental mindsets, stimulate creativity, and manage uncertainty within the framework of providing sound assessments to decision-makers at the Strategic, Operational and Tactical level of war. Students will leverage scenario-based exercises to practice employing structured analytical techniques and other analytical methodologies in order to answer a decision maker's critical information requirements.

INTV350 will provide students with an overview and of the five U.S. Intelligence Community recognized intelligence collection disciplines including (Signals Intelligence (SIGINT), Human Intelligence (HUMINT), Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT), Measurement and Signature Intelligence (MASINT), and Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT)) to learn how to employ collection that answer information and intelligence requirements in support of decision-making and situational understanding. Students will gain insights into the capabilities, limitations, and applications of sensors, and discern the functional responsibilities between intelligence analysts, collection managers and decision-makers across the national security enterprise.

INTV 450 will provide students with an in-depth overview of the tactics, techniques, procedures, and tools used to conduct and defend against Information Operation campaigns. Students will analyze case studies involving Nation State actors' online influence efforts in order to detect, deconstruct, and counter adversarial Information Operation campaigns.

INTV 459 will provide an in-depth examination of how to optimize the coordination of all available collection capabilities in order to support intelligence operations and the military decision making process. Students will conduct research and engage in practical exercises to determine optimal sensor deployment schemes and sensor-to-target mix in order to address different collection requirements.

INTV 498 is designed to provide Intelligence & Information Operations majors with a capstone experience emphasizing integration of knowledge acquired in previous courses. The course provides a culminating experience for majors involving a substantive project that demonstrates a synthesis of learning accumulated in the major, including broadly comprehensive knowledge of the discipline and its methodologies. Students are required to incorporate a field research study into their research project. This is a self-directed course in which students develop and produce a senior-level research paper grounded in relevant research.