Intelligence and Security Studies

Overview

Bellevue University is a trusted leader in intelligence and security education, who partners with federal government and private-sector security organizations.

The degree is designed to develop your academic research skills and transnational knowledge of global issues and regions of the world. This specialized knowledge is necessary to solve the security dilemmas of the 21st Century.

Coursework will challenge you to develop knowledge of major geopolitical and military issues, threats, actors, principles, techniques, and policy. You’ll take a deep dive into transnational threats, global intelligence systems, and national security strategy related to regions and countries, including China, India, and Russia.

Throughout the program, you will work with classmates and expert faculty to build your electronic professional portfolio, showcasing your global security and intelligence knowledge and research skills.

Program Outcomes

At the completion of the Intelligence and Security Studies program from Bellevue University, graduates will have gained a deep knowledge of the meaning of intelligence, of the history of intelligence, and of the role of intelligence in security policy planning. You will be able to:

• Apply intelligence analysis methodologies, theories, and techniques of national security to current threats in the global security sector.
• Evaluate security policies to make informed, research-based recommendations in geopolitical and military issues contexts.
• Distinguish and assess strategic problems within specific cultural, political, social, economic, and environmental contexts.
• Create threat assessments, with open source data collection and analysis, on major geopolitical and military issues, threats, actors, and principles.
• Create original intelligence assessments utilizing the intelligence cycle process.
• Develop new original research for security and intelligence scholarship.