Intelligence Management (Bachelor's)

The Bachelor's Degree in Intelligence Management is earned by satisfactory completion of an online program equivalent to two years of full time upper division study. The program introduces the student to the basic concepts of intelligence gathering and analysis. The student will begin to understand how intelligence manifests itself in many ways, requiring an astute and open mind to determine how to analyze and understand what and where intelligence can be found as well as how it can be used.  This program also provides a basis for the student's study at more advanced levels.  All courses are four and a half credit hour courses unless otherwise noted.

Graduates of this program will be able to:

• Display an understanding of the general workings of the intelligence industry both at home and abroad
• Draw upon a solid grounding in general strategy and the history of intelligence to inform current practices and methods
• Identify and compile information of intelligence value from open sources, distinguish factual information from misinformation or propaganda and treat it accordingly
• Conduct basic intelligence collection, threat assessments, and counterintelligence
• Understand and apply the tools of basic intelligence analysis
• Show a knowledge of clandestine and illicit economies and networks