National Security Intelligence Minor

https://manchester.unh.edu/program/minor/national-security-intelligence

The objective of this academic minor is to allow students to study intelligence issues and challenges related to US national security.

National security intelligence is a secret state activity to understand, influence, or defend against a threat to gain an advantage. Students may take courses in multiple disciplines across UNH while pursuing the national security intelligence minor. Students completing this minor will have a composite view of national security intelligence and related topics that may support career path in the government, private sector, and not for profit realms.

For more information about the National Security Intelligence minor on either campus, contact Andrew Macpherson, minor supervisor.

The Minor in National Security Intelligence requires five courses. Student completing the minor must take three courses originating in the Department of Security Studies which provide the foundation for the minor. Students will build upon this foundation with two additional intermediate course electives from the Department of Security Studies or other departments across UNH.

Required courses
HLS 550History and Structure of the U.S. Intelligence Community4
HLS 650Topics in National Security Intelligence4
Select one of the following required courses:4
Issues in Intelligence Collection
Intelligence Analysis and Production
Counterintelligence
Covert Action
Select two of the following electives: 6
Political Violence and Terrorism
Issues in Intelligence Collection
Intelligence Analysis and Production
Counterintelligence
Covert Action
Open Source Intelligence
Espionage and History
Foreign Relations of the United States
Professional Culture in Europe
National Security Policy and the Intelligence Community
Intelligence Analysis
United States in World Affairs
Drug Wars
Comparative Government and Society
Strategy and National Security Policy
Propaganda and Persuasion
Total Credits18