IA Degree and Major Requirements Overview

IA Required foundations and core courses: 42 credits
IA Required concentration courses: 15 credits
General Education courses: 41 credits
Electives courses: 22 credits
Total credits: 120

IA Required foundations and core course total credits: 42

IA FOUNDATIONS COURSES (18 CREDITS)
IA 200 - Introduction to national security intelligence	3
IA/CIS 210 - Introduction to global competitive intelligence	3
IA 400 - Cognitive science and information analysis	3
IA 405 - Ethics, law and information analysis	3
IA 440- Seminar in information analysis	3
IA 450 - Capstone Project in information analysis	3
TECHNOLOGY AND TOOLS CORE COURSES (12 CREDITS)
ISAT 252 - Introduction to programming and problem solving	3
IA 340 - Data mining, modeling and knowledge discovery	3
IA 341 - System dynamics modeling, simulation and analysis	3
IA 342 - Visualization methods, technologies and tools for information analysis	3
ADVANCED CRITICAL THINKING IN INTELLIGENCE CORE COURSES (12 CREDITS)
IA 261 - Hypothesis testing	3
IA/PHIL 312 - Causal analysis	3
IA/PHIL 313 - Counterfactual reasoning	3
IA/PHIL 314 - Strategy assessment	3

Additional IA courses, requirements and recommendations

IA 280 Projects in information analysis (This is not a required course. 1-3 credits)
IA 480 Topics in information analysis (This is not a required course. 1-3 credits)
GISAT 251 Analytic Methods III: Statistics or MATH 220 (These are GenEd Cluster Three course required for the IA major. They will be recorded as GenEd, not IA, credits.
All IA majors will be encouraged to do a not-for-credit internship in information analysis.

IA Required concentration courses: students must complete either the National Security concentration of the Competitive Intelligence concentration. Total credits:15

National Security Concentration: To complete this concentration, 12 credits must be selected from the set of national security courses. In addition, 3 credits must be selected from the Competitive Intelligence Concentration.

National security courses

POSC 348 - Politics of cultural pluralism (3)
POSC 430 - International security in the post cold-war world (3)
GEOG 475 - Political geography (3)
POSC 458 - Political analysis in the cross-national perspective (3)

Competitive Intelligence Concentration: To complete this concentration, 12 credits must be selected from either the Competitive Intelligence: Business Intelligence or the Competitive Intelligence: Global Economics Perspective set of courses. In addition, 3 credits must selected from the National Security Concentration.

Business intelligence courses

CIS430 - Database design and application (3 required)
CIS 498 - Business intelligence (3 required)

Select two of the following

CIS 304 - Information technology (3)
CIS 366 - Web development or ISAT 348 the Multimedia Industry (3)
CIS 424 - Computer security management (3)
CIS 411- Computer forensics for business (3)

Global economic perspective courses

GECON 200 - Introduction to macroeconomics (3 required)
ECON 201 - Principles of microeconomics (3 required)

Select two of the following:

ECON 301- Economics in Transition (3)
ECON 312 - Comparative economic systems (3)
ECON 365 - Economic development (3)
ECON 370 - International trade (3)
ECON 372 - International Finance and Payments (3)

General education recommended courses total credits: 41

Cluster two 9 credits [GREL 101 Religions of the World, recommended]
Cluster three 10 credits [GISAT 251 or MATH 220, recommended]
Cluster four 7 credits [GPOS 225, GECON 200, GPOS 200, recommended]
Cluster five 6 credits [GPSYC 101, recommended]

Elective course credits: 22

Recommended areas of study appropriate to IA:

Language, country and culture focus
Languages and geographic region focus
Technology focus, e.g., geographic information systems (GIS), information systems security (Info Sec), computer science (CS), computer information systems (CIS)
Justice studies and law enforcement focus