Intelligence and National Security Studies

FACULTY:  Aldouri, Gorman, McCune, Schauer, Soden, Telless, Valero
COORDINATOR: Mark Gorman

Minor in Intelligence and National Security Studies (18 Hours)

This minor program is designed to allow students to become familiar with intelligence and security needs and problems of risk confronted by private and governmental organizations. Students will be introduced to problems and reasoning concerning matters of security, counterintelligence, transnational threats such as terrorism and drug cartels, diplomacy, international transactions, intelligence bureaucracies, and related areas. The program is valuable for students interested in understanding the complex world of security, intelligence, and counterintelligence and for students seeking careers in the U.S. Intelligence Community and private agencies employing security technology, methodology, and services. The minor program is highly flexible and will benefit students from any college or major at UTEP. Students are required to complete six hours of required courses, six hours of prescribed electives in the intelligence and national security studies (INSS) curriculum, and six hours from a list of interdisciplinary electives. Any UTEP undergraduate student in good academic standing is eligible for enrollment in the Minor in Intelligence and National Security Studies.

For required courses, please click here, select your major, and select Intelligence and National Security Studies as your minor.

Undergraduate Certificate in Intelligence and National Security

The Undergraduate Certificate in Intelligence and National Security is designed  familiarize students with the history of intelligence and national security, the intelligence cycle, global security risks, the political climate,  international relations issues and how government and private organizations work jointly on matters of security.  This program is valuable for students with an interest in pursuing a career in the Intelligence Community or the global market place.  The undergraduate Certificate in Intelligence and National Security will consist of 18 semester hours of study.  Courses can be substituted where appropriate at the discretion of the director of the certificate program.

Admissions Standards
Any UTEP undergraduate student in good academic standing is eligible for enrollment in the Certificate in Intelligence and National Security.

Students must select six (6) credits from a focus area in consultation with appropriate faculty members.  The director of the certificate program must approve the courses proposed for satisfaction of the student’s focus area requirement. Students cannot apply courses used for satisfying the Politics, Economics, and History component of the certificate for satisfaction of the focus area requirement.

Course Information

For descriptions of course offerings, please click here and select Intelligence and National Security Studies (INSS).