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