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Master in Intelligence and Security Studies (MA) - Brunel
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Master in Intelligence and Security Studies (MA) - Brunel

Brunel University London
LondonUK
On campus
Full-time
€32,529.96/year
 4761 Points
Duration
1 Year
Language
English
Apply date
Jul 2024
Start date
Sep 2024

Program Description

As part of the master in Intelligence and Security Studies (MA), you’ll study a range of modules on campus over one year full-time or two years part-time, including participation in the Brunel Simulated Intelligence Analysis Exercise (BASE) on a real-world subject. The master in Intelligence and Security Studies (MA) will allow you to demonstrate your ability to complete a substantial piece of intelligence and securities research through a dissertation project.

Highly committed and enthusiastic tutors combine broad-ranging expertise in areas such as cryptography, computer networking, imagery, intelligence analysis, economics, and law, with the knowledge, skills, and understanding to develop your academic and professional potential.

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Course Content

The master in Intelligence and Security Studies (MA) is structured around a core of compulsory modules and one optional choice, plus a dissertation in a subject of your choice.

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Teaching and Learning

You will learn in lectures, seminars and directed reading. In the Case Studies module, you will prepare a detailed case study for presentation in a seminar environment for review by your peers.

Additionally, the Brunel Analytical Simulation Exercise centres around group work on joint all-source intelligence assessment modelled on the actual joint assessment processes used by the US and UK governments.

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Curriculum

Intelligence and Security Studies Dissertation

The aim of this module is to bring perspectives derived from the taught modules to bear on an issue of significant research interest to the student in intelligence and security studies using research methods introduced through the Case Study and Simulation modules. Students will develop and undertake a detailed and rigorous piece of research on an intelligence and security studies topic.

Intelligence History: Failure and Success

This module will introduce students to the study of Intelligence and Security issues in policy-oriented context through the medium of history. It will provide a critical historical background on the practice of intelligence from ancient times onwards, with particular attention to the impact of intelligence and security agencies on major international and national events since 1939.

Contemporary Threats and Analytical Methodology

This module will introduce students to the role of intelligence in assessing and countering the principal threats to national security in the 21st century, as well as ntroducing students to forecasting and estimative methodologies.

Intelligence Concepts, Issues and Institutions

Intelligence Concepts, Issues and Institutions

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