INSS Minor Requirements

To earn the INSS minor, students complete six courses (18 credit hours), four of which are the required core for the INSS track (12 hours), plus two additional courses related to INSS (6 hours).

  • (1) Four required courses:
    • POLS 125 Intelligence: Supporting National Security
    • POLS 130 US Intelligence Community
    • POLS 325 Intelligence Analytics
    • POLS 345 Counterintelligence

  • (2) Plus two elective courses from the approved list below:

     

  • POLS:
    • POLS 356 Government & Politics in East Asia
    • POLS 361 Politics of the Middle East
    • POLS 371 U.S. Foreign Policy
    • POLS 375 Russian Foreign Policy
    • POLS 378/678 Chinese Foreign Policy
    • POLS 419 Counterproliferation
    • POLS 425 Extremist Groups and Government Response
    • POLS 452 Politics in Europe
    • POLS 468 Reform in Contemporary China
    • POLS 472 International Political Economy
    • POLS 477 U.S. National Security Policy
    • POLS 480 Politics & Government in Israel
    • POLS 482 Transnational Terrorism
    • POLS 648 Western European Politics
    • POLS 682 Trafficking, Organized Crime and Terrorism: U.S. Government Response
    • POLS 687 Introduction to Cyberintelligence (Previously listed POLS 629)
    • POLS 688 US Counterterrorism Approaches to International and Domestic Terror Groups
  • CRIM:
    • CRIM 365 Crime and Intelligence Analysis
    • CRIM 366 Spatial Analysis of Crime
    • CRIM 375 Terrorism and Homeland Security
    • CRIM 376 Drug Cartels and Trade
    • CRIM 475 Human Trafficking Investigations
    • CRIM 476 Piracy on the High Seas
  • EECS
    • EECS 465 - Cyber Defense
    • EECS 565 - Intro Information and Computer Security
    • EECS 569-  Computer Forensics
    • EECS 592-  Cybersecurity Design
  • GIST, AAAS, GEOG, SLAV:
    • AAAS 415 Women in Islam
    • GIST 550/SLAV 379 Iran Soft Power
    • GEOG 571/AAAS 520 The Gray Zones in Africa
    • GIST 329: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: An Intro
  • NAVY, ARMY:
    • NAVY 220 Sea Power & Maritime Affairs
    • NAVY 402 Seminar: Military Leadership & Management
    • ARMY 402: The Military Profession
  • COMS
    • COMS 356: Introduction to Behavioral Research Methods in Communication
    • COMS 557: East Asian Communication
    • COMS 547: Communication and Culture
  • BUSINESS
    • BSAN 310/311: Introduction to Business Analytics
    • BSAN 415: Data Analysis and Forecasting
    • IBUS 500: School of Business Study Abroad
    • IST 435: Introduction to Information Security
  • APPLIED CYBER SECURITY
    • ITEC 302: Python, Algorithms, and Data Structures
    • ITEC 340: Computer and Information Security
    • ITEC 426: Cyber Defense and Countermeasures
  • PSYCHOLOGY
    • PSYC 210: Statistics in Psychological Research
    • PSYC 399: Foundations of Data Science
    • PSYC 599: Data Management