Faculty of Health, Engineering and Science

School: Computer and Security Science

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Leadership in Intelligence
  • Unit Code

    SCY6103
  • Year

    2015
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online

Description

This unit prepares intelligence professionals for senior leadership and management roles in the highly complex and dynamic contemporary intelligence environment. Using a mix of contemporary case studies in combination with current real-world incidents, students will be required to solve complex intelligence problems. Presentations by senior decision makers will expose the students to the complex needs of strategic policy and planning at both the national and international level. Students will examine the complexity of the relationships between the intelligence function and the executive whilst learning the art of influence within ethical constraints.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded CSI5120

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Create intelligence assessments that appropriately influence decision making.
  2. Evaluate evidence from disparate stakeholders to identify intelligence support needs.
  3. Lead/manage an intelligence operation based on a complex real world security situation.
  4. Plan complex real-world intelligence operations using open source data.
  5. Synthesise complex and disparate information to produce professional intelligence products.

Unit Content

  1. Communicating intelligence: Up, down and sideways.
  2. Compliance and governance and the intelligence function.
  3. Ethics and oversight of intelligence.
  4. Influencing leaders and policy-makers.
  5. Intelligence as an operational function.
  6. Leadership and management in intelligence agencies and other organisations.
  7. Leadership in the intelligence domain.
  8. National and international differences in intelligence issues.
  9. The intelligence decision-maker dichotomy.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, tutorials, seminars and online activities including conference calls and group discussions.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Case StudyAnalyse a contemporary intelligence failure20%
EssayLeadership and management in the intelligence domain20%
ReportAs part of an intelligence team prepare an intelligence assessment on a defined security problem40%
Reflective PracticeA personal reflection on your leadership and management qualities utilised during the team assessment20%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Case StudyAnalyse a contemporary intelligence failure20%
EssayLeadership and management in the intelligence domain20%
ReportAs part of an intelligence team prepare an intelligence assessment on a defined security problem40%
Reflective PracticeA personal reflection on your leadership and management qualities utilised during the team assessment20%

Text References

  • ^ Quarmby, N., & Young, L. J. (2010). Managing intelligence the art of influence. Sydney: The Federation Press.
  • Perry, D. (2009). Partly cloudy ethics in war, espionage, covert action and interrogation. Lanham: Scarecrow Press.
  • Marrin, S. (2011). Improving intelligence analysis. London: Routledge.
  • Hatfield, E. L. (2008). Finding leaders: Preparing the intelligence community for succession management. Washington: National Defence Intelligence College.
  • Hall, W. M., & Citrenbaum, G. (2010). Intelligence analysis how to think in complex environments. Santa Barbara: Praeger Security International.
  • Goldman, J. (Ed.). (2009). Ethics of spying a reader for the intelligence professional vol 2. Lanham: Scarecrow Press.
  • Walsh, P. F. (2011). Intelligence and intelligence analysis. London: Routledge.

Journal References

  • Intelligence & National Security
  • International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence.
  • International Security
  • Security Studies
  • European Security

^ Mandatory reference


Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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Faculty of Health, Engineering and Science

School: Computer and Security Science

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Leadership in Intelligence
  • Unit Code

    SCY6103
  • Year

    2015
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online

Description

This unit prepares intelligence professionals for senior leadership and management roles in the highly complex and dynamic contemporary intelligence environment. Using a mix of contemporary case studies in combination with current real-world incidents, students will be required to solve complex intelligence problems. Presentations by senior decision makers will expose the students to the complex needs of strategic policy and planning at both the national and international level. Students will examine the complexity of the relationships between the intelligence function and the executive whilst learning the art of influence within ethical constraints.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded CSI5120

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Create intelligence assessments that appropriately influence decision making.
  2. Evaluate evidence from disparate stakeholders to identify intelligence support needs.
  3. Lead/manage an intelligence operation based on a complex real world security situation.
  4. Plan complex real-world intelligence operations using open source data.
  5. Synthesise complex and disparate information to produce professional intelligence products.

Unit Content

  1. Communicating intelligence: Up, down and sideways.
  2. Compliance and governance and the intelligence function.
  3. Ethics and oversight of intelligence.
  4. Influencing leaders and policy-makers.
  5. Intelligence as an operational function.
  6. Leadership and management in intelligence agencies and other organisations.
  7. Leadership in the intelligence domain.
  8. National and international differences in intelligence issues.
  9. The intelligence decision-maker dichotomy.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, tutorials, seminars and online activities including conference calls and group discussions.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Case StudyAnalyse a contemporary intelligence failure20%
EssayLeadership and management in the intelligence domain20%
ReportAs part of an intelligence team prepare an intelligence assessment on a defined security problem40%
Reflective PracticeA personal reflection on your leadership and management qualities utilised during the team assessment20%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Case StudyAnalyse a contemporary intelligence failure20%
EssayLeadership and management in the intelligence domain20%
ReportAs part of an intelligence team prepare an intelligence assessment on a defined security problem40%
Reflective PracticeA personal reflection on your leadership and management qualities utilised during the team assessment20%

Text References

  • ^ Quarmby, N., & Young, L. J. (2010). Managing intelligence the art of influence. Sydney: The Federation Press.
  • Goldman, J. (Ed.). (2009). Ethics of spying a reader for the intelligence professional vol 2. Lanham: Scarecrow Press.
  • Perry, D. (2009). Partly cloudy ethics in war, espionage, covert action and interrogation. Lanham: Scarecrow Press.
  • Marrin, S. (2011). Improving intelligence analysis. London: Routledge.
  • Hatfield, E. L. (2008). Finding leaders: Preparing the intelligence community for succession management. Washington: National Defence Intelligence College.
  • Hall, W. M., & Citrenbaum, G. (2010). Intelligence analysis how to think in complex environments. Santa Barbara: Praeger Security International.
  • Walsh, P. F. (2011). Intelligence and intelligence analysis. London: Routledge.

Journal References

  • Security Studies
  • European Security
  • Intelligence & National Security
  • International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence.
  • International Security

^ Mandatory reference


Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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