Partner Details
Informa Connect
Awards
Target Award
Award Description:Master of Science - MS
Recruitable Target
Alternative Exit
Alternative Exit
Recruitable Target
Programme Offerings
Part-Time
DL-INF-SEP
Educational Aims of the Course
These courses aim to provide students with a critical view of threats from terrorism, organised crime, radicalisation and intelligence failures, as well as an assessment of security strategies such as horizon scanning. During the programme, you will use reflection and analysis to understand and develop your own area of expertise within the fields of intelligence analysis, security studies and criminology. The courses aim to provide an analysis of important intelligence and security events and issues of the late 20th and 21st century and connects the practical basis of intelligence to the broader issues facing the international system. The history of the role of intelligence, including success and failure using case studies and international examples will also help you to contextualise the importance of the impact caused. In particular, you will focus on understanding and applying intelligence and analytical thinking to practical problems by looking at current and emerging security problems as well as evaluating potential solutions to these issues. These courses are taught by distance learning and aims to connect a diverse body of domestic and international students across two time zones, to share knowledge and develop expertise in the fields. The courses key aims are: • To provide distance learning programmes in Intelligence and Security Studies for full-time employees. • To enable students to make an original contribution to the discipline of Intelligence and Security Studies and the advancement of professional security practice. • To produce competent, informed reflectively and ethically competent students who have a developed academic understanding the key issues within Intelligence and Security Studies and the theories which underpin the discipline. • To enable students to connect the conceptual basis of the disciplines to some of the practical issues facing the international system.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Demonstrate a critical awareness of the impact and influence evidence-informed policy has, and continues to have, on professional practice in intelligence and security studies, counter-terrorism studies and policing.
2.
Undertake and present scholarly work.
3.
Understand the ethical implications of policing related enquiries and show sensitivity to values and interests, to identify and take account of normative and moral positions.
4.
Recognise the relevance of the study of intelligence and security studies to the wider discipline of international relations.
5.
Show sensitivity to diversity issues and competing interests in intelligence and security studies.
6.
Demonstrate the capacity to work independently and with others to professional standards, and display higher skill levels in the subject areas.
7.
Select effective information collection methods and use the most appropriate analytical tools.
8.
Articulate arguments and conclusions based on evidence and that are subject to a well- developed critical appraisal and imaginative judgement.
9.
Present information in various formats and for different audiences.
10.
Collaborate and co-operate in working with others to investigate questions or issues relating to intelligence and security studies, policing studies and international relations.
11.
Prioritise time to work to strict deadlines.
12.
Demonstrate a critical appreciation of the influences and drivers of policy and practice change in the broad areas of intelligence and security studies.
13.
Communicate effectively in both verbal and written forms.
14.
Use ICT to access contemporary sources of information.
15.
Apply numerical skills to cases involving a quantitative dimension. Teaching, learning and assessment methods used to enable outcomes to be achieved and demonstrated.
16.
Demonstrate a critical understanding of the research designs, methodological choices, and validity of sources of empirical research and good/best practice guidance that seek to analyse and measure the performance of intelligence and security studies interventions.
17.
Show how the boundaries of knowledge are extended through the production of a research-informed critical commentary that advances innovative practice development or serves to enhance the understanding of the need to develop greater efficiencies and enhanced performance in professional practice.
18.
Use problem solving skills - show imagination and flexibility in seeking solutions to problems.
19.
Apply major theories and concepts to the study of intelligence and security studies.
20.
Independently engage with the subject literature, analyse and assess it to support critical and normative judgements within security studies and theories with relevant evidence and structured argument.
21.
Identify a range of research strategies and methods and reflexively assess the merits of each.
22.
Demonstrate the skills necessary to plan, conduct and report a research project.
Teaching, Learning and Assessment
Teaching, learning and assessment methods used to enable outcomes to be achieved and demonstrated. On the course, there is an especial emphasis on a sound grasp of the relevant academic literature, including substantial use of key scholarly journals in the field of security studies, intelligence analysis and criminology. The assessment strategy also concentrates on how theory relates to and enhances good practice. This is assessed through a variety of summative and formative assessments including online tests and essays. A range of learning strategies and a variety of modes of interactive delivery conducive to on-line distance learning will be utilised throughout the programme and delivered by the LJMU VLE Canvas or Informa Connects learning platform, including an introductory lecture and a range of on-line activities; e.g. presentations, workbooks, podcasts, blogs, forums both tutor-led synchronous (which can be recorded) and asynchronous, Skype tutorials in addition to utilising suitable OER (open educational resources),such as ‘You Tube’ videos, supported by digital key readings. Knowledge and understanding is assessed via summative assessment methods suitable for on-line distance-learning, such as formal and reflective essays, and full-scale individual report,. A range of periodic formative study skills and knowledge checks will be completed by the students on-line which feedback will be given in order to enable on-going development via reflective practice and aimed at research and compilation of the summative assessment tasks. Target Award Learning Outcomes 1 – 22 are taught through on-line lectures and developed via on-line forums, knowledge checks and appropriate formative tasks designed for on-line learning. These skills are assessed across all modules while the variety of assessments across the programme ensures that these skills are assessed in different ways and in a mode suitable for on-line distance-learning. Formative assessment is used to develop knowledge, understanding and skills, while summative assessment is used to assess the student’s success in achieving the learning outcomes.
Programme Structure
Programme Structure Description
Completion of 60 taught credits provides Postgraduate Certificate in Intelligence and Security Studies. Completion of 120 taught credits provides Postgraduate Diploma in Intelligence and Security Studies. Completion of 180 credits award: MSc in Intelligence and Security Studies. Students enrolling into the Postgraduate Certificate in Intelligence and Security Studies will undertake … For more content click the Read More button below.
Structure
Level 7
Entry Requirements
Alternative qualifications considered
Other international requirements