INSS Major Requirements

INSS Major Requirements (available Fall 2026)

To earn the INSS major, students can choose between the BA or the BGS in Intelligence & National Security Studies. Students must complete the four core courses for the INSS track (12 hours), plus 6 additional courses related to INSS (18 hours).

  • (1) Four required courses:
    • POLS 125 Introduction to Intelligence & Statecraft
    • POLS 130 US Intelligence Community
    • POLS 325 Intelligence Analytics
    • POLS 345 Counterintelligence
  • (2) Plus six INSS elective courses

Approved Elective List for INSS Major:

  • POLS 625 Extremist Groups and Government Response
  • POLS 652 Politics in Europe
  • POLS 661 Politics of the Middle East
  • POLS 675 Russian Foreign Policy
  • POLS 677 U.S. National Security Policy
  • POLS 678 Chinese Foreign Policy
  • POLS 682 Trafficking, Organized Crime and Terrorism: U.S. Government Response
  • POLS 687 Introduction to Cyberintelligence 
  • POLS 310 Counterproliferation
  • POLS 656 Government & Politics in East Asia
  • POLS 688 US Counterterrorism Approaches to International and Domestic Terror Groups 
  • POLS 582 Transnational Terrorism