Program Objectives

Upon completion of this certificate, students will be able to:

• Differentiate between strategic, operational, and tactical intelligence.
• Identify the advantages and pitfalls of various predictive analysis techniques.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the challenges which multi-generational analysts who support counter terrorism collection and law enforcement units might pose for their management.
• Prepare target packets for personnel and inanimate targets for use in military, national, and competitive intelligence sectors.
• Assess the legal and cultural challenges to information sharing between these by identifying legal constraints and historical miscues.
• Identify the advantages and pitfalls of various predictive analysis techniques.
• On a micro level, discuss confidently the challenges facing team supervisors within the intelligence community and corporate intelligence units today.
• Compare or contrast the role of Intel manager in the public and private sectors.

Courses

INT 560      Strategic Intelligence
This course provides an examination of how the President of the United States and national policymakers use Strategic Intelligence in foreign policy. Upon completion of this course students will be able to describe and explain of the role strategic intelligence plays in United States foreign policy from both a historical and contemporary perspective.

INT 570       All-Source Intelligence
To provide the current and thorough Intelligence Analysis required today by Senior Policy Makers, Military Leadership, and Corporate America, All-Source Analysts utilize HUMINT, IMINT, SIGINT, ELINT, TELINT, COMINT,MASINT, OSINT, and even RUMINT. Professional analysts also use a variety of linking, modeling and data manipulation or artificial intelligence software packages. In this course, we will look at several means of collecting and analyzing multi-discipline information, but remain focused on the need and ability to synthesize all of this data, however into objective and cohesive All Source products.

MGT551       Intelligence Team Management
This course explains how to manage an intelligence operation. Students will learn how to maintain group productivity and cohesion in situations where different people or groups must be able to keep information (or perhaps even their existence) secret from each other (“compartmentalization”). Students will also demonstrate knowledge of management principles that are particularly appropriate for intelligence organizations.

INT 680      Operational Concepts and Planning (Targeting)
Intelligence target packages are centralized collections of research that provide information and analysis to support the monitoring, the acquisition, and/or the neutralization of a threat. This course will teach students how to prepare target packages on personnel and inanimate targets for use in military, national, and competitive intelligence sectors, to evaluate target packages to predict future threat activities, and to provide cogent recommendations to decision makers based on target packages.

Entrance Requirements/Costs

The Certificate in Strategic Intelligence is more exclusive and can only be taken by individuals who have demonstrated sufficient experience and understanding in these fields against the following criteria:

• A Masters Degree and at least one year of associated experience
• A Bachelor’s Degree and at least two years of associated experience
• An AA, or AAS Degree and at least three years of associated experience
• No degree and at least five years of associated experience.

Each certificate is worth 18 quarter units and the student must maintain a 3.0 GPA in each course.