Intelligence Reasoning Analysis. (3-0) 3 Credit Hours

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Prerequisite: NS 6003 . Analysis and analytical reasoning for intelligence analyst professionals requires adherence to analytical standards and principles that promote integrity as well as logic. The course includes, but is not limited to, topics such as transforming data to intelligence, the intelligence process, critical thinking, selected structured analytical techniques, recognizing and overcoming perceptual, cognitive and cultural biases, methods for describing the assessed validity of information or conclusions, and other components of the process, and psychology of intelligence analysis. This course provides students opportunities to apply critical thinking and analytic skills learned in class through exercises, case studies, and a capstone paper. This course has Differential Tuition.