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PSCI-6254: National Security

Description: Application of security analysis tools to national security issues. Domestic and international security contexts, actors, and processes. Contemporary challenges to national security such as cyber-threats, terrorism, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, pandemics and environmental threats, organized crime, drug and human trafficking, state failure and state- building, and migration.

Pathways: N/A

Course Hours: 3 credits

Prerequisites: GRAD-5104 and PSCI-5214 and PSCI-5116 and (ASPT-5464 or PSCI-5464)

Required By: N/A

Corequisites: N/A

Crosslist: N/A

Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 3

Average GPA: 3.82 (rounds to A-)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 54.73%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 0.00%

Paul C Avey2024100.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.862
Arnold C Dupuy202080.0%20.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.741

Grade Distribution Over Time

1234GPA
Summer I 2020Spring 2021Spring 2024Term050% W