|
Click on the name of an online public services graduate course to view the detailed information; you can also find out about the college or university offering the category by clicking on "School's Profile". |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Name (Section Id) |
|
Program |
|
Degree |
|
Name of College, University |
|
School's Profile |
|
|
|
|
Independent Study: Military Science (MS690) |
|
Public Services |
|
G |
|
American Public University |
|
▤ |
|
|
|
Details |
|
|
|
An opportunity for students to pursue an independent research project or examine a specific topic under the mentorship of a single professor. Students must complete 24 credits of study before taking this course. Participation is at the discretion of the faculty member. The course will typically involve six or more contacts and produce a major research paper (50+ pages); there will be no examination. Students will submit a proposal prior to the start of the project, and a rough draft of the paper at week 10, both of which will count toward the final grade. Prior to registering, students should first contact the professor with whom they wish to mentor their independent study, coordinate an agreement on the textbooks require and the course completion requirements, and then NOTIFY the University System Registrar with the name of their professor. |
|
|
|
|
Independent Study: National Security Studies (NS690) |
|
Public Services |
|
G |
|
American Public University |
|
▤ |
|
|
|
Details |
|
|
|
An opportunity for National Security Studies students to pursue an independent research project or examine a specific area of national security under the mentorship of a single professor. Students must complete 24 credits of study before taking this course. Participation is at the discretion of the faculty member. The course typically involves six or more telephone calls and production of a major research paper; there will be no examination. Students will submit a proposal prior to the start of the project, and a rough draft of the paper at week 10, both of which will count toward final grade. Prior to registering, students should first contact the professor with whom they wish to mentor their independent study, coordinate an agreement on the grading requirements, and then NOTIFY the APUS Registrar with the name of their professor. |
|
|
|
|
Independent Study: Naval Warfare (NW690) |
|
Public Services |
|
G |
|
American Public University |
|
▤ |
|
|
|
Details |
|
|
|
An opportunity for Naval Warfare students to pursue an independent research project or examine a specific area of Naval Warfare and its history under the mentorship of a single professor. Students must complete 24 credits of study before taking this course. Participation is at the discretion of the faculty member. The course will typically involve six or more telephone calls and produce a major research paper (50+ pages); there will be no examination. Students will submit a proposal prior to the start of the project, and a rough draft of the paper at week 10, both of which will count toward the final grade. |
|
|
|
|
Independent Study: Unconventional Warfare (LC690) |
|
Public Services |
|
G |
|
American Public University |
|
▤ |
|
|
|
Details |
|
|
|
An opportunity for Unconventional Warfare students to pursue an independent research project or examine a specific area of Unconventional Warfare and its history under the mentorship of a single professor. Students must complete 24 credits of study before taking this course. Participation is at the discretion of the faculty member. The course will typically involve six or more telephone calls and produce a major research paper (50+ pages); there will be no examination. Students will submit a proposal prior to the start of the project, and a rough draft of the paper at week 10, both of which will count toward the final grade. |
|
|
|
|
Indications and Warnings (IN523) |
|
Public Services |
|
G |
|
American Public University |
|
▤ |
|
|
|
Details |
|
|
|
The purpose of this course is to teach the student how the current I&W system is organized, how it is supposed to work in theory, and how it has actually worked in practice. In addition, students will examine the traditional and alternative approaches to the I&W process. Students will learn about the various types of intelligence indicators and how they fit into the process of intelligence prediction, which is an implied function of I&W. Students will also examine various historical case studies to learn about the four basic "sources of error" in I&W. |
|
|
|
|
Industrial Espionage (CR538) |
|
Public Services |
|
G |
|
American Public University |
|
▤ |
|
|
|
Details |
|
|
|
This course provides a framework for understanding industrial or economic espionage. Inquires into technological and management approaches to prevention and detection. Reviews current theories on cyberterrorism, and explores the range of responses which organizations may use. The purpose of the course is to teach how to understand and neutralize serious threats to business and government. |
|
|
|
|
Information Warfare (IN504) |
|
Public Services |
|
G |
|
American Public University |
|
▤ |
|
|
|
Details |
|
|
|
A study of the emerging area of "Information Warfare." Stress will be on developing and then comparing and contrasting two themes: Info War as a name for traditional counter C-4I doctrine and Info War as a new type of cyberspace conflict involving computers and networks. Students will be challenged to develop definitions and applications within the context of these two concepts or to develop a third definition of a hybrid between the two. |
|
|
|
|
Institutions of National Security (NS503) |
|
Public Services |
|
G |
|
American Public University |
|
▤ |
|
|
|
Details |
|
|
|
The modern history and contemporary structure of the United States national security apparatus, from the executive and legislative branches through each major diplomatic, military, economic, and public/private relationship. Topics covered: the legislative basis for modern national security, internal national security institutional politics, key personalities in recent national security institutional history, and possible changes to the national security apparatus in the near future. |
|
|
|
|
Insurgency and Revolution (LC513) |
|
Public Services |
|
G |
|
American Public University |
|
▤ |
|
|
|
Details |
|
|
|
An analysis of the origins and structures of insurgency and revolution. Various theories and analysis frameworks will be considered. Specific groups of insurgents and revolutionaries are evaluated against these theories and frameworks. |
|
|
|
|
Insurgency and the Peasantry (LC527) |
|
Public Services |
|
G |
|
American Public University |
|
▤ |
|
|
|
Details |
|
|
|
Historically, the peasantry has been a key factor in insurgency. Even increased urbanization has not altered this reality, as the displaced rural masses have often been in the forefront of internal upheaval. LC527 explores the relationship of this social class to insurgency, as well as the major theoretical approaches used by scholars. |
|
|
|
|
Intelligence and Arms Control (IN526) |
|
Public Services |
|
G |
|
American Public University |
|
▤ |
|
|
|
Details |
|
|
|
This course surveys the US experience in arms control over the past three decades and investigates what this experience means for the post Cold War era. The fundamental goals of arms control, how these goals fit in the broader framework of US national security, and the process of negotiating, ratifying, and implementing treaties will be discussed. The course begins with a broad theoretical and conceptual approach and then moves into specific case studies. |
|
|
|
|
Intelligence and Homeland Security (IN547) |
|
Public Services |
|
G |
|
American Public University |
|
▤ |
|
|
|
Details |
|
|
|
This course discusses the relationships between intelligence and homeland security. It uses a historical case study approach, analyzing both past and contemporary homeland security issues from an intelligence perspective. This course also analyzes the evolving relationship between intelligence and homeland security/homeland defense strategy from the beginning of World War I to the present. It includes an end-of-course online exercise in which students will be placed in the role of the U.S. National Security Council (or another governing power) having to deal with a hypothetical 21st Century homeland security crisis. |
|
|
|
|
Intelligence and Joint Operations (IN538) |
|
Public Services |
|
G |
|
American Public University |
|
▤ |
|
|
|
Details |
|
|
|
Intelligence and Joint Operations, examines the history of joint operations and the lesson learnt; and selected joint operations pre-and post-Goldwater-Nichols Defense Reorganization Act. The course also explores the challenges that confront both short- and long-term force planners, especially concerning their intelligence requirements. |
|
|
|
|
Intelligence and National Security (IN527) |
|
Public Services |
|
G |
|
American Public University |
|
▤ |
|
|
|
Details |
|
|
|
This course discusses the relationships between intelligence and national security strategy. It uses a historical case study approach, analyzing both past and contemporary national security issues from an intelligence perspective. This course also analyzes the evolving relationship between intelligence and national security strategy from the beginning of World War I to the present. It includes an end-of-course online exercise in which students will be placed in the role of the U.S. National Security Council (or another major power) having to deal with a hypothetical 21st Century global crisis. |
|
|
|
|
Intelligence and Naval Warfare (NW551) |
|
Public Services |
|
G |
|
American Public University |
|
▤ |
|
|
|
Details |
|
|
|
Naval intelligence provides the critical products, services, and systems needed to keep the fleet, national leadership, and decision makers informed for naval warfare on, above, and beneath the sea. This course explores the relationships between intelligence and naval warfare using a historical case study approach analyzing both past and contemporary naval warfare issues from an intelligence perspective. This course also analyzes the evolving relationship between intelligence and naval warfare strategy from the the post-Civil War period to the present. |
|
|
|
|
Intelligence and Russian Military Strategy (IN531) |
|
Public Services |
|
G |
|
American Public University |
|
▤ |
|
|
|
Details |
|
|
|
This course is intended to serve as an elective follow-on course for students who wish to learn more about the development of Russian military strategy since the fall of the Soviet Union and to study recent Soviet and Russian military experiences in Afghanistan and Chechnya. The course analyzes the major developments within the Soviet/Russian military and its strategy over the last quarter century. The first half of the course focuses on the end years of the Soviet Union. The course opens with a case study of the Soviet defeat in Afghanistan. An exploration of the collapse of the Soviet military, its causes, and its consequences--including the shifting balance between conventional and nuclear forces--finishes out the first half of the course. The second half of the course covers the struggles of the Russian Federation as it tries to re-establish its military power and craft a new military strategy in line with both its capabilities and its ambitions. The continuing decline of the Russian military and the increasing reliance of Russia on its nuclear forces is examined. The Russian defeat in Chechnya in 1994-95 and the current Russian war in Chechnya are the concluding case studies of the course. |
|
|
|
|
Intelligence and the Operational Level of War (IN543) |
|
Public Services |
|
G |
|
American Public University |
|
▤ |
|
|
|
Details |
|
|
|
The purpose of this course is to develop the student?s understanding of the impact intelligence has had on the course and outcome of various campaigns at the operational level of warfare in the 19th and 20th centuries, with particular emphasis given to the U.S. experience. The course will incorporate specially designed wargames to emphasize the effects of intelligence on the operational planning of both sides in any given campaign. |
|
|
|
|
Intelligence and the Vietnam War (IN540) |
|
Public Services |
|
G |
|
American Public University |
|
▤ |
|
|
|
Details |
|
|
|
This course is a study of the role of strategic, operational, and tactical intelligence on both sides of the Vietnam War, and its course topics include the use of intelligence up to the national command authority down to the military unit level. Students will also study the intelligence system and its associated princples employed by the North Vietnamese against U.S. and South Vietnamese forces. The intelligence lessons from both sides are addressed for their future application in the intelligence community. |
|
|
|
|
Intelligence and the War on Drugs (IN505) |
|
Public Services |
|
G |
|
American Public University |
|
▤ |
|
|
|
Details |
|
|
|
An intensive study of the use of intelligence, particularly Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) in the prosecution of the war on drugs. The history and geography of the struggle will be covered, with emphasis on "La Frontera," the Southwest border of the U.S. |
|
|
|
|
Intelligence and Weapons of Mass Destruction (IN544) |
|
Public Services |
|
G |
|
American Public University |
|
▤ |
|
|
|
Details |
|
|
|
This course is designed to provide the student with a competent knowledge of the top national intelligence priority, weapons of mass destruction, and some of the intelligence techniques used against them. Topics include scientific and technical intelligence and its emergence since World War II, sessions on each of the four dominant WMD--chemical warfare, biological warfare, nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles-, and important issues related to monitoring and verification. Capabilities and outlook provided in the open literature will be employed to improve familiarity with issues and impact on national security strategies. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
