Requirements for the IA program change on a year-by-year basis and may change. The sequencing of the required courses in the curriculum for 2021-22 is described below.

Year 1 - Fall Semester
  • IA 150: Introduction to Intelligence Analysis
  • General Education Course
  • General Education Course
  • General Education Course
  • General Education/Minor Course
Year 1 - Spring Semester
  • IA200: Introduction to National Security Intelligence (for current freshmen)
  • General Education Course
  • General Education Course
  • General Education/Minor Course
  • General Education/Minor Course
Year 2 - Fall Semester
  • IA150 (if not taken year 1)
  • IA 200: Introduction to National Security Intelligence (for current sophomores)
  • IA 240: Technology Applications in a Networked World (canceled for fall 2021)
  • IA 261: Hypothesis Testing
  • General Education Course
  • Additional General Education/Minor Course or Elective
Year 2 - Spring Semester
  • IA210:  Introduction to Global Competitive Intelligence (No longer offered: course requirement substitution will be identified later in the fall 2021 semester)
  • IA 241: Introduction to Programming and Data Science
  • IA 312: Causal Analysis
  • IA 250: Research Design and Writing for Intelligence Analysis
  • Course in Minor/GenEd/Elective
Year 3 - Fall Semester
  • IA 313: Counterfactual Reasoning
  • IA 340: Data Mining
  • IA 300: Issues in Intelligence Analysis
  • Course in Minor/GenEd/Elective
  • Course in Minor/GenEd/Elective
Year 3 - Spring Semester
  • IA 314: Strategy Assessment
  • IA 342: Visualization Methods
  • Course in Minor/GenEd/Elective
  • Course in Minor/GenEd/Elective
  • Course in Minor/GenEd/Elective
Year 4 - Fall Semester
  • IA 440: Capstone Project Part I (elective for fall 2021)
  • IA 405: Ethics, Law and IA
  • Course in Minor/GenEd/Elective
  • Course in Minor/GenEd/Elective
  • Course in Minor/GenEd/Elective
Year 4 - Spring Semester
  • IA 450: Capstone Project Part II
  • Course in Minor/GenEd/Elective
  • Course in Minor/GenEd/Elective
  • Course in Minor/GenEd/Elective
  • Course in Minor/GenEd/Elective

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