Intelligence Management Bachelor’s Degree

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Gain the skills to find answers and effect positive change within your organization with an online Bachelor of Science degree in Intelligence Management from National American University’s Henley Putnam School of Strategic Security. This program is also an excellent foundation if you wish to pursue the online Intelligence Management Master of Science degree.

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Intelligence Management Bachelor’s Program Overview

Understanding how to uncover, gather, analyze and strategically use intelligence information can be of enormous benefit to your organization. In this program, you’ll learn the basic concepts of intelligence gathering and analysis, as well as how to use information to appraise and respond to threats.

As a graduate of the program, you will be able to:

  • Use critical thinking and problem-solving skills to apply preventive, deterrent and response actions related to intelligence issues or challenges.
  • Assess information from a variety of sources on issues of intelligence management.
  • Communicate clearly in a variety of mediums to intelligence industry stakeholders.
  • Work collaboratively in diverse groups to identify issues in intelligence management.
  • Assess ethical and civic-minded approaches to challenges to the intelligence field.

Intelligence Management Bachelor’s online Degree Classes and Curriculum

The online Intelligence Management bachelor’s degree program consists of the following class requirements: major core, open electives, and general education core. These classes total 180 credits.

All academic courses are 100% online and subject to minimum class size requirements.

Major Core

49.5 credits

Support Core and Open Electives

40.5 credits

General Education

90 credits

Course availability is subject to minimum class size requirements.

Intelligence Management Bachelor’s online Degree Tuition and Fees

Learn more about our tuition schedule.

Intelligence Management Online Degree Career Outcomes

With a comprehensive skillset including critical thinking, intelligence gathering, and analysis, you could find employment in private, corporate, nonprofit, and governmental agencies, serving as a research analyst, or intelligence specialist. Careers could also include:

  • Business & Competitive Intelligence Analyst
  • Political Scientist
  • Counterterrorism Analyst
  • Cyber Security Intelligence Analyst
  • Insider Threat Detection Analyst
  • Intelligence Officer
  • Threat Analyst
  • Special Agent

Who Is a Good Candidate for the Online Intelligence Management Degree?

  • Entry-level job seekers: If you are already fluent in a foreign language, understand how to hack into a computer, or love mathematics this may be the degree for you.
  • Intelligence Management professionals who want to further your professionalization in writing, research, and the intelligence tradecraft.
  • Military service members who have worked in military intelligence, as a foreign language translator, or have held a top-secret national security clearance.

INT300 – Fundamentals of Intelligence
INT305 – Advanced Critical Thinking and Logic
INT310 – Fundamentals of Analysis
INT315 – Open Source Research
INT330 – Writing for the Intelligence Professional
INT379 – History of Intelligence, Part 1
INT380 – History of Intelligence, Part 2
INT390 – Covert Action
INT400 – Counterintelligence
INT476 – Intelligence Collection
PHIL400 – Ethics of Security and Counterterrorism

Choose any three courses.

INT320 – Propaganda and Disinformation
INT401 – Interrogation and Interviewing Techniques
INT440 – Technical Surveillance
INT445 – Operational Security
INT460 – Clandestine and Secure Communications
INT477 – Collection Management
NUC350 – Principles of Grand Strategy
NUC410 – Weapons Systems
NUC415 – Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Weapons

Choose any six courses.

Students may also include any course from support core courses if not previously taken as a major support core course.

CI3710 – Internet Security
CI3715  – Cybercrime and Information Systems
CI3725 – Network Security
CJ2240 – Introduction to Private Security
CJ2700   – Cybercrime in Criminal Justice
CJ3005 – Gangs in America
CJ/PL3020 – Serial Killers and the Law
CJ/PL 3030 – Hate Crimes and the Law
CJ3050 – Loss Prevention
CJ3400 – Constitutional Law
CJ/PS 4000 – Psychology and the Law
CJ4450 – Security Operations Theory
CJ4500 – Homeland Security and Terrorism
INT511DC – Advanced Analytical Methods
INT521DC – Advanced Intelligence Collection
INT600DC – Intelligence Team Management
INT680DC – Operational Concepts and Planning (Targeting)
PRO375 – History of Executive/Dignitary Protection
PRO380 – Conflict Resolution
PRO385 – Etiquette and Rapport
PRO398 – Fundamentals of Threat Assessment
PRO405 – Consequence Management
PRO422 – Building Security
PRO430 – Travel and Hospitals
PRO432 – Principal’s Office and Residence
PRO433 – Off – site Visits
PRO466 – Advance Work
PRO494 – Essentials of Executive Protection
SEC305 – Offensive v. Defensive Security:  Understanding the Broader Security Field
SEC320 – Foundations of the Security Industry
SEC326 – Foundations of Vehicular Security
SEC340 – Effective Writing for the Security Professional
SEC344 – Protective Security Law
SEC360 – Information Security
SEC366 – Managing the Security Organization
SEC375 – Workplace Violence, Workplace Security
SEC452 – Infiltration Techniques
SEC486 – Bomb Threat Management
TCT306 – Media and Terrorism
TCT310 – Psychology of Violence
TCT390 – Foundations of Terrorism
TCT395 – Counterterrorism
TCT396 – Terrorist Techniques
TCT410 – Lone Wolf Terrorism
TCT420 – Psychology of Fear
TCT425 – Religious Extremism
TCT430 – Ethno/Nationalist Terrorism
TCT435 – Terrorist Support Networks
TCT440 – Islamism and Terrorism

Communications

EN1150 – Composition I
EN1300 – Composition II

EN2100 – Speech OR
EN2150 – Interpersonal Professional Communication

Science

SC – Science Electives

Humanities

HU2000 – Critical Thinking and Problem Solving

Behavior/Social Science

Elective

Mathematics

MA2000 – Quantitative Reasoning

General Education

CS1202 – Strategies for Professionals OR
CS1204 – Advanced Strategies for Professionals

CS1302 – Consumer Mathematics

SEC105 – The Foundation, Functions, and Future of Strategic Security
Open Electives

Course availability is subject to minimum class size requirements.

IM-PLO B1: Use critical thinking and problem-solving skills to apply preventive, deterrent and response actions related to intelligence issues or challenges
IM-PLO B2: Assess information from a variety of sources on issues of intelligence management
IM-PLO B3: Communicate clearly in a variety of mediums to intelligence industry stakeholders.
IM-PLO B4: Work collaboratively in diverse groups to identify issues in intelligence management.
IM-PLO B5: Assess ethical and civic-minded approaches to challenges to the intelligence field.