The School’s catalogue comprises thirty courses across five levels. Every course carries a code, sits at a defined level, and has a published development status. That last point is unusual and deliberate: no course is sold or opened for enrollment until it contains substantive, tested learning material. A course listed here as planned is genuinely planned, not quietly empty behind a purchase button.
Levels are sequential in method but not rigidly gated. A learner with relevant background may enter at Level 2 or Level 3; each course page states its own prerequisites. Levels map onto the School’s seven academic clusters.
Level 1 — Foundation
Six courses establishing intelligence literacy and the reasoning habits everything else depends on.
IS-F01 — Intelligence Literacy: From Information to Strategic Insight. The gateway course. What separates intelligence from information, and what a decision-maker actually needs.
IS-F02 — History and Evolution of Intelligence. How the discipline developed, and what its documented failures teach about analysis.
IS-F03 — The Intelligence Cycle and Intelligence Organizations. Requirements, collection, processing, analysis, dissemination, and feedback, and how organizational structure shapes output.
IS-F04 — Sources, Evidence, and Information Reliability. Source reliability and information credibility treated as two separate assessments.
IS-F05 — Intelligence Ethics, Law, and Professional Responsibility. The legal and ethical frame, taught before practical work rather than after it.
IS-F06 — Critical Thinking and Cognitive Bias in Intelligence. The specific reasoning failures that recur in analytical work, and how to detect them in your own drafts.
Level 2 — Analytic Methods
Seven courses covering the technical core of structured analysis.
IS-A01 — Foundations of Intelligence Analysis. Moving from evidence to defensible judgment.
IS-A02 — Structured Analytic Techniques. The working toolkit, applied to real problems.
IS-A03 — Hypothesis Testing and Competing Explanations. Analysis of competing hypotheses in practice, including how to handle evidence that fits every hypothesis equally.
IS-A04 — Indicators, Signposts, and Trend Analysis. Designing observables that would actually change if the situation changed.
IS-A05 — Estimative Language and Analytical Confidence. Probability and confidence as distinct dimensions, and how to write both honestly.
IS-A06 — Scenario Analysis and Alternative Futures. Structured foresight for situations without a single trajectory.
IS-A07 — Writing Strategic Briefs and Intelligence Assessments. The craft of the product itself: structure, compression, and making the judgment findable in the first paragraph.
Level 3 — OSINT and Information Verification
Six courses on lawful open-source collection and verification.
IS-O01 — Open-Source Intelligence Foundations. Method, scope, and the limits of open collection.
IS-O02 — Source Verification and Digital Research. Provenance, corroboration, and reproducible documentation.
IS-O03 — Media Monitoring and Narrative Analysis. Tracking framing and propagation across media ecosystems.
IS-O04 — Academic, Government, and Institutional Sources. Working with statistical, legal, regulatory, and scholarly material, including the ways each can mislead.
IS-O05 — Geospatial and Visual Verification Fundamentals. Imagery, location, and chronology verification at foundational level.
IS-O06 — Ethical OSINT Documentation and Evidence Management. Audit trails, data minimization, and responsible handling, bound by the School’s ethics and legal boundaries.
Level 4 — Risk, Early Warning, and Security
Six courses applying method to deterioration and risk.
IS-R01 — Foundations of Early Warning Systems. Indicator sets, thresholds, and alert logic.
IS-R02 — Political Risk Analysis. Institutional, policy, and stability risk for real decisions, complementing the Intelligence Center’s political risk function.
IS-R03 — Conflict and Social Risk Monitoring. Grievance, mobilization, and escalation dynamics.
IS-R04 — Security Risk Assessment. Threat, vulnerability, and consequence treated as separable components.
IS-R05 — Election and Governance Risk. Electoral integrity, transition periods, and institutional stress.
IS-R06 — Crisis Indicators and Escalation Dynamics. Recognizing acceleration, and communicating warning under time pressure.
Level 5 — Strategic and Advanced Studies
Five courses at strategic level.
IS-S01 — Strategic Intelligence for Decision Makers. Written for the consumer of intelligence as much as the producer.
IS-S02 — Geopolitical Intelligence and Strategic Competition. National power, regional systems, and long-horizon competition.
IS-S03 — Southeast Asian Strategic Intelligence. Regional depth including maritime security, complementing the School of Southeast Asian Studies.
IS-S04 — AI-Assisted Intelligence Analysis. Where AI genuinely helps, where it fabricates, and why human approval remains mandatory.
IS-S05 — Information Warfare, Disinformation, and Cognitive Influence. Influence operations as an analytical subject.
Development status
The catalogue is published in three development groups so that learners can see exactly what is available now, what is being built, and what is on the academic roadmap.
Group A, launch priority, full course shells. IS-F01, IS-F03, IS-A01, IS-A02, IS-O01, and IS-R01. These six form the coherent entry pathway: literacy, the intelligence cycle, analysis foundations, structured techniques, OSINT foundations, and early warning.
Group B, in development, structured drafts, enrollment disabled. IS-F02, IS-F04, IS-F05, IS-F06, IS-A03, IS-A04, IS-A05, IS-A06, IS-A07, IS-O02, IS-O03, and IS-R02. Twelve courses with structure and outline in place while material is written.
Group C, academic roadmap, planned, purchase disabled. IS-O04, IS-O05, IS-O06, IS-R03, IS-R04, IS-R05, IS-R06, IS-S01, IS-S02, IS-S03, IS-S04, and IS-S05. Twelve courses committed to the roadmap without a completion date.
Publishing status this openly costs some apparent scale, and it is worth it. A catalogue in which every listing looks equally available teaches learners nothing about what they can actually study today.
Choosing a starting point
Most learners should begin with IS-F01, then IS-A01 and IS-A02. If your work is primarily research and verification, add IS-O01 early. If it is monitoring and warning, add IS-R01. Learners pursuing a credential should read the certificate tracks first and work backwards to individual courses. Institutional cohorts are assembled from these courses rather than delivered as fixed packages, as described under programs.
Pricing is pending owner approval. Questions about cost, prerequisites, and format are answered on the FAQ page, and the School itself is introduced on the about page.