Human Security and Geospatial Intelligence Minor

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Email: spatialsciences@dornsife.usc.edu

Director: John P. Wilson, PhD

The interdisciplinary minor in Human Security and Geospatial Intelligence aims to educate future leaders in location-based analytics to gather, interpret, and implement actionable intelligence to promote human security and serves to connect many collaborative and interrelated disciplines to provide a framework for students interested in learning how to develop and deliver analytical and spatial solutions.

Lower-Division Elective (4 units)

ENST 100g Introduction to Environmental Studies Units: 4
GEOL 108Lg Natural Disasters and Their Global Impact Units: 4
IR 101gxw International Relations Units: 4
IR 210gw International Relations: Introductory Analysis Units: 4
NSC 201 Leadership and Management Units: 3
POSC 110g Ideology and Political Conflict Units: 4
POSC 120 Comparative Politics Units: 4
POSC 130g Law, Politics and Public Policy Units: 4
POSC 248gw Human Rights Units: 4
SSCI 135g Maps in the Digital World Units: 4
SSCI 165Lgw Sustainability Science in the City Units: 4
SSCI 214g Human Populations and Natural Hazards Units: 4
SSCI 220L Spatial Data Collection Using Drones Units: 4
SSCI 265Lg The Water Planet Units: 4

Required Core (12 units)

IR 304 National Intelligence and the Shaping of Policy Units: 4 or
IR 319 Human Security and Humanitarian Intervention Units: 4
SSCI 301L Maps and Spatial Reasoning Units: 4
SSCI 401L Geospatial Intelligence Units: 4

Upper-Division Elective (4 units)

AEST 400a Aerospace Studies IV: National Security Forces in Contemporary American Society Units: 3
AEST 400b Aerospace Studies IV: National Security Forces in Contemporary American Society Units: 3
IR 304 National Intelligence and the Shaping of Policy Units: 4
IR 381 Introduction to International Security Units: 4
IR 386 Terrorism and Counterterrorism Units: 4
MDES 314p Politics, Ideologies, Cultures of the Global South Units: 4
MS 401 Leadership and Management I Units: 3
MS 402 Leadership and Management II Units: 3
NSC 402 Leadership and Ethics Units: 3
POSC 351 Middle East Politics Units: 4
SSCI 382L Geographic Information Science: Spatial Analytics Units: 4

Note:

ROTC courses (AEST, MS, NSC) are not open to non-ROTC students.

IR 304 cannot be counted as both a core and an elective course.