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Program Facts
Program Details
Degree
Masters
Major
Homeland Security | National Security | Military and Defence
Area of study
Security Services
Course Language
English
About Program
Program Overview
Students can specialize in Intelligence, Peace Operations, or Transnational Challenges. The accelerated master's program option allows qualified undergraduates to earn both bachelor's and master's degrees in a reduced timeframe.
Program Outline
These threats include transnational crime, terrorism, illicit trade, proliferation of emerging technologies and WMD, corruption, state fragility, and ethnic and sectarian conflict.
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- Program Duration: The program requires a total of 36 credits.
- Core Courses: The program includes 24 credits of core courses, covering topics like:
- National Security Technology and Policy (BIOD 760)
- International Relations (GOVT 540)
- International Security (GOVT 745)
- Introductory Data Analysis for Policy and Government (POGO 511) or Data Analysis for Global Political Economy (GCP 501)
- Grand Strategy (PUBP 504)
- Politics and Practice of International Security Policy (PUBP 505)
- Ethics and the Use of Force (PUBP 506)
- Electives: Students must complete 15 credits of electives in consultation with their academic advisor.
- Concentrations: Students can choose to declare one of three concentrations:
- Intelligence (IN): Focuses on topics like global health security, terrorist groups, cyber conflict, and policy writing.
- Peace Operations (PO): Focuses on topics like international conflict and crisis response, peace and stabilization operations, state- and institution-building, and international police operations.
- Transnational Challenges (TC): Focuses on topics like terrorist groups, cyber conflict, illicit trade, transnational crime and corruption, and human smuggling and trafficking.
- Accelerated Master's Program: Highly-qualified undergraduates in any major can apply to the accelerated MA program in International Security. This program allows students to earn a bachelor's degree and a master's degree within a reduced timeframe.
- Admission: General information on graduate admissions to George Mason University can be found in the Graduate Admission Policies. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.
- Policies: Students admitted to a Schar program will be terminated from Schar upon receiving one grade of F and are no longer eligible to take courses in Schar. Students are terminated from the university after accumulating grades of F in two courses or 9 credits of unsatisfactory grades in graduate courses.
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Admission Requirements
- Application Review: Completed applications for fall and spring semesters are reviewed on a rolling basis, with late applications considered on a space-available basis.
- Nondegree Study: Students may be admitted for nondegree study and apply a limited number of credits toward the master's degree should they choose to apply to the degree program later, in accordance with university policy.
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