INTL604  - Interagency Operations

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Learn how to improve interagency relationships among security, defense, and intelligence agencies. This course introduces the student to theoretical and practical material for understanding the behavior of individual organizations and what can be done to make organizations work more closely together at the federal, state, and local levels. Students are introduced to theoretical material on organizational cultures; bureaucracy; social trust; individual, group, and organizational decision-making; and interagency collaboration. Emphasis is placed on explaining why organizations act the way they do and how to improve interagency coordination. Prerequisite: INTL500 Research Methods in Security and Intelligence Studies or other APUS 500-level graduate research methods course.

 

Prerequisites

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Corequisites

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Schedule of Classes

Registration Dates Course Dates Session
09/26/11 - 02/26/12 03/05/12 - 04/29/12 Winter 2012 Session D - 8 Week session
10/31/11 - 03/25/12 04/02/12 - 05/27/12 Spring 2012 Session B - 8 Week session
11/28/11 - 04/29/12 05/07/12 - 07/01/12 Spring 2012 Session I - 8 Week session
12/26/11 - 05/27/12 06/04/12 - 07/29/12 Spring 2012 Session D - 8 Week session
01/30/12 - 06/24/12 07/02/12 - 08/26/12 Summer 2012 Session B - 8 Week session

Course Materials

Book Title: The 9/11 Commission Report - [Available Online]
ISBN: 0393326713
Publication Info: W.W. Norton & Company; (July 22, 2004)
Author: NCTA /
Unit Cost: $10.00

Book Title: Masks of War: American Military Styles in Strategy & Analysis
ISBN: 0801837766
Publication Info: Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989
Author: Builder, Carl H
Unit Cost: $29.00

Book Title: Getting Agencies to Work Together - ebook available in the APUS Online Library to be used while awaiting text
ISBN: 0815707975
Publication Info: Washington D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 1998
Author: Bardach, Eugene
Unit Cost: $28.50

Book Title: Bowling Alone
ISBN: 0743203046
Publication Info: New York: Touchstone, 2000
Author: Putnam, Robert
Unit Cost: $16.99

Book Title: Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do & Why They Do It
ISBN: 0465007856
Publication Info: NY: Basic Books, 1991
Author: Wilson, James Q
Unit Cost: $26.00

 
 
 

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