Geopolitics and Strategy Certificate of Completion
The Geopolitics and Strategy Certificate consists of three courses (9 credit hours) designed to meet the needs of traditional and non-traditional students in the fields of security and intelligence, in the military, in higher education, and in other vocations in the private and public sector. Courses included in the certificate provide students with knowledge of rogue states and security, technology and geostrategy, and geography and policy.
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This course promotes the understanding of tactical and strategic thought at the introductory level. The course explores how theory and strategy help form policy by identifying the implications and shifts in long-term strategic patterns and trends. Security culture, use of force, international law, grand strategy, and just and unjust war will be major aspects of course study.
This course gives students an in-depth understanding of how science and technology impacts national security and intelligence. It examines how important hard science and technology is in developing areas of national security and intelligence. This includes analyzing cyber-security and cyber-warfare, the emerging relationship between the IC and IT, space reconnaissance, and high-tech espionage.
This course analyzes issues of leadership and statehood that run contrary to international norms and democratic standards. Students will investigate key case studies and examine how they offer challenges to the global community and international security. It acquaints students with problem areas and issues in world politics and gets them thinking of conflict-resolution strategies that are both short and long-term. How these strategies are employed within US foreign policy and their likely efficacy is also examined.
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