By Dr. Joe DiRenzo
Professor in the Intelligence Studies Program at American Military University

Today’s students do not want to simply be lectured to or presented a series of publications to read, analyze, and report on. They want to work through real world issues, generally presented as case studies for individual and group analysis. Technology allows today’s students to be in the middle of a problem without ever leaving their desk.

The hallmark of any top-flight graduate program is the ability of students to take the material taught and apply it to real life decision making, problem solving, and course of action development.  One example of this is the end of course simulation that has been developed for students in the American Military University School of Security and Global Studies graduate Intelligence program course in Threat Analysis course (INTL634). This simulation based training is as true to life as you can possibly make it.