INSS Certificate Requirements

To earn the INSS certificate, students must (1) complete 12 hours in required INSS courses, and (2) participate in 20 hours of approved extracurricular campus activities.*

• (1) Four required courses:
  • POLS 125 Introduction to Intelligence & Statecraft
  • POLS 130 US Intelligence Community
  • POLS 325 Intelligence Analytics
  • POLS 345 Counterintelligence
• (2) Intelligence community-related experiences
  • Participation in 20 hours of campus activities with an INSS focus, such as lectures, workshops, and other events

* Please note that students earning a certificate not in conjunction with a degree program are not eligible for federal financial aid. For more information, contact iccae@ku.edu.