SIA 1990. Elective. (1-4 Hours)
Offers elective credit for courses taken at other academic institutions. May be repeated without limit.
SIA 2990. Elective. (1-4 Hours)
Offers elective credit for courses taken at other academic institutions. May be repeated without limit.
SIA 3990. Elective. (1-4 Hours)
Offers elective credit for courses taken at other academic institutions. May be repeated without limit.
SIA 4990. Elective. (1-4 Hours)
Offers elective credit for courses taken at other academic institutions. May be repeated without limit.
SIA 6105. Introduction to National and Homeland Security. (3 Hours)
Offers an overview of the essential concepts that constitute the emerging discipline of national and homeland security, including the instruments of national power: diplomatic, informational, military, economic. Seeks to expand the way students think, analyze, and communicate about national and homeland security and assess knowledge in critical security domains.
SIA 6115. National Security—Law and Policy. (3 Hours)
Examines the various elements of national power and their application in advancing U.S. interests. Explores the distribution of national security powers among the three branches of government. Offers students an opportunity to develop a recognition of the synergy a multidisciplined approach affords by analyzing current strategy and policy.
SIA 6125. Security and Civil Liberties. (3 Hours)
Examines and discusses important constitutional issues that affect all of us. Emphasizes the rights and civil liberties that the Constitution protects. Explores the history and makeup of the Supreme Court and the important role the court plays in ensuring our democracy continues to function. Examines the distribution of powers among the three coordinate branches of government—legislative, executive, and judicial— and engages students in understanding the laws and policies that govern important critical constitutional issues.
SIA 6135. The Intelligence Community. (3 Hours)
Offers an overview of the disparate intelligence agencies in the intelligence community and describes their missions, responsibilities, and how agencies do or do not collaborate in today’s environment. Given the dynamic nature of threats and sources in the 21st century, this course reflects the rapid changes taking place. Requires students to analyze the relative missions and develop policy recommendations for future collaborative efforts in keeping with relevant U.S. and international laws.
SIA 6145. Terrorism and Counterterrorism. (3 Hours)
Examines the overt and underlying ideology, history, reasons, and causes of terrorism—both domestic and international. Explores the philosophical underpinnings of terrorism and the role that politics and media coverage of terrorist events play in understanding the terrorism phenomenon. Emphasizes how the United States conducts counterterrorism investigations and the relevant tools.
SIA 6400. Intelligence in a Globalized World. (3 Hours)
Highlights the key themes that are currently developing within international intelligence liaison relationships. Explores the trend toward homogenization of intelligence and other law enforcement and security initiatives. Discusses international standardization among a widening group of partners and how these processes may establish viable frameworks and operational parameters for the intelligence liaison arrangements, together with addressing counterintelligence and other security considerations. Defines and explores a best-practice approach as becoming normalized operationally, facilitating the optimization of intelligence liaison arrangements.
SIA 6410. Human Intelligence Operations. (3 Hours)
Introduces all aspects of human intelligence (HUMINT), from its basic role as part of the intelligence community to operational considerations as a tool of U.S. national security policy. Studies what HUMINT is, how it is conducted, its challenges, specific analytical and reporting considerations that make it a unique discipline, and some of its great successes. Explores contemporary challenges to conducting HUMINT operations, given technology and the ways different U.S. government intelligence agencies organize and operate their HUMINT capabilities. Offers students an opportunity to develop advanced analytical and writing skills and to obtain a basis for dissertation research and writing. Requires students to research information from other disciplines and integrate it into their current research and applied decision making on HUMINT operations supporting counterterrorism.
SIA 6420. Analysis for Counterterrorism. (3 Hours)
Explores how to create a unified, integrated, and multidisciplinary counterterrorism analysis program that makes the best use of all available resources.
SIA 6430. Corporate Security and Investigations. (3 Hours)
Explores the essentials of private and public investigations in a corporate environment. Focuses on the comprehensive study of the investigative process, tools of investigations, and types of investigations. Examines fraud detection, risk assessment, employee theft, insider threat, embezzlement, accounting improprieties, compliance investigations, internal controls, and safeguards to prevent these threats.
SIA 6440. Governance and Security Information Implications. (3 Hours)
Explores current threats to information security from internal and external actors, how organizations have reacted to such threats, and best practices in organizational design to minimize threats. Examines a systematic and practical approach for establishing, managing, and operating a comprehensive information assurance program and ensuring continuity of operations.
SIA 6450. Contemporary Threats to Security. (3 Hours)
Introduces the operational and organizational dynamics of terrorism and other threats facing the United States today. Considers those who act as individuals, in small groups, or in large organizations and indigenous actors, as well as those who come to the United States to raise money, recruit, or commit their acts of violence. Focuses on violent clandestine activity that, whatever its motivation, has a political purpose or effect. Addresses specific topics such as suicide terrorism, the role of the media, innovation and technology acquisition, and ways of measuring the effect of counterterrorism policies and strategies.
SIA 6460. Technology for Homeland Security. (3 Hours)
Offers an overview of the technology used in the national security field including, but not limited to, security technology, information systems, inspection and surveillance technology, communication, knowledge management, information security, and artificial intelligence. Frames technology in terms of its contribution to deterrence, preemption, prevention, protection, and response.
SIA 6470. Strategic Planning and Budgeting. (3 Hours)
Presents an overview of the challenges and the processes in place to support homeland security efforts. Examines the wide variety of programs required for homeland security—in such disparate areas as counterterrorism, information security, border security, and counter-drug activities—and covers coordination at the federal, state, and local levels. Studies how decision makers at the various levels decide which of these programs should be funded; what programs should be supported and the scale of those programs; how these programs fit together and support the overall goal of homeland security; and how plans are translated into budgets.
SIA 6480. Risk Management. (3 Hours)
Provides a framework for an organizational leader to improve decision making through a comprehensive understanding of an organization’s exposure to risk. Exposes students to skills for conducting these assessments across organizational boundaries and in public-private partnerships. Focuses on how to model, measure, or assess undesirable risks and reduce risks relevant to large organizations with collective public obligations.
SIA 6600. Leading Intelligence Operations. (3 Hours)
Examines intensively case studies of intelligence operations engaged in by the United States and other countries. Uses several recent case studies, such as Operation Iraqi Freedom. Examines analysis and conceptual design of the operation, the strategic basis of the policy, as well as the operational- and tactical-level experiences. Offers students an opportunity to learn how intelligence fits in the strategic, operational, and tactical levels of OIF and the challenges in bringing the nation’s intelligence assets together in a coherent and effective manner.
SIA 6610. Intelligence Analysis and Policymakers. (3 Hours)
Considers the relationship between intelligence analysts and policymakers. Through readings, historical case studies, and class discussions, studies how the intelligence cycle supports senior-level decision makers. Guides students to consider a current issue, through analytical reasoning, resulting in an evidentiary-supported assessment and recommendations.
SIA 6620. All-Source Intelligence. (3 Hours)
Examines several means of collecting and analyzing multidiscipline information. Focuses on the need and ability to filter all of this data into objective and cohesive all-source products with an unbiased viewpoint.
SIA 6630. Counterintelligence. (3 Hours)
Presents a comprehensive overview of counterintelligence (CI) and how intelligence agencies, organizations, and military units in the United States use both offensive and defensive CI to guard and protect U.S. national security interests from foreign intelligence entities. Explores multidisciplinary CI support to intelligence operations through historical analysis and case studies. Reviews and analyzes how cultural, social, and technological changes affect CI.
SIA 6640. Homeland Security and Critical Infrastructure Protection. (3 Hours)
Presents the model-based vulnerability technique to critical infrastructure within a multijurisdictional region to derive optimal strategies and draft policies for prevention of future terrorist attacks.
SIA 6650. Continuity of Operations and Planning. (3 Hours)
Introduces students to continuity of operations and planning at the federal-, state-, and municipal-level government organizations and across private sector organizations across critical U.S. infrastructure and industry segments. Today’s complex and evolving threat environment has increased the need for government and private sector organizations alike to be better prepared for operational and business continuity in times of crisis. Aims to prepare students to perform in a variety of continuity planning and management-related roles.
SIA 6660. Essentials of Emergency Management. (3 Hours)
Examines the hazards and phases in emergency management and planning. Includes all levels of public and private sector involvement in discussing the definition of emergencies and disasters, both natural and man-made, and the issues involved with managing situations. Examines frameworks such as the National Preparedness System; the National Incident Management System; and others for organizing, responding, and mitigating crises from an all-hazards, all-threats perspective, including both U.S. and international concerns. Studies the U.S. emergency management system; how communities mitigate against, respond to, and recover from all disaster events; as well as the U.S. involvement for international disaster response contingencies.
SIA 6670. Advanced Emergency Management. (3 Hours)
Studies a framework for an organizational leader to improve decision making through a comprehensive understanding of an organization’s exposure to risk. Exposes students to skills for these assessments across organizational boundaries and in public-private partnerships. Focuses on how to model, measure, or assess undesirable risks and reduce risks relevant to large organizations with collective public obligations.
Prerequisite(s): HLS 6150 with a minimum grade of C-
SIA 6962. Elective. (1-4 Hours)
Offers elective credit for courses taken at other academic institutions. May be repeated without limit.
SIA 6980. National Security and Intelligence Capstone. (4 Hours)
Offers students an opportunity to increase their impact and effectiveness as a leader by working on a real problem set for a real consumer of information. Explores some of the world's most complex threats, with students working both independently on individual assignments and as a team on projects.
SIA 6983. Topics in National and Homeland Security. (1-4 Hours)
Covers special topics in national and homeland security. May be repeated four times for up to 20 semester hours.