JSQ211 The Power of Intelligence
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| Unit code: | JSQ211 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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| Domestic tuition unit fee | $3,480 |
Unit Outline: Session 2 2024, QUT Online, Online
| Unit code: | JSQ211 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
Overview
Intelligence informs strategic, operational and tactical approaches to investigations. This unit will explore the intelligence process, including planning and prioritising intelligence activities, information collection and collation, intelligence analysis and dissemination. It will also consider ways to draw on intelligence analysis to produce recommendations to guide investigative and policy decisions.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Justify intelligence planning decisions, data selection and analysis methods drawing on the professional and academic literature
- Analyse intelligence data to identify patterns and risk.
- Evaluate intelligence material for validity and thoroughness
- Articulate evidence-based recommendations for intelligence led investigations.
Content
This unit will cover the following:
- The role of intelligence
- The intelligence cycle
- Processes of planning, collection and collation of data
- Data security
- Intelligence analysis processes, including social network analysis, data analysis and pattern identification
- Dissemination, including verbal briefings
- Developing recommendations
- Feedback and evaluation
Learning Approaches
This unit will be offered online in the form of self-contained modules that introduce you to new concepts, provide opportunities for you to apply your knowledge to real world scenarios and to work collaboratively to practice your skills.
The unit adopts reflective and collaborative learning approaches which allow you to work within a community of practice to build your knowledge and practice your skills in applying the role of intelligence in the investigative process.
Your participation in the unit includes:
- Independently working through the learning modules
- Discussing and collaborating with your peers to apply your knowledge to real world scenarios
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
The following types of feedback will assist you to develop the knowledge and skills in this unit:
- Self-feedback in the form of reflective activities
- Peer feedback in the form of group discussion and online collaborative sessions
- Adaptive feedback in the form of online interactive learning activities and quizzes
- Teacher feedback in the online collaborative sessions, discussion boards, and written feedback on assessment
Assessment
Overview
The summative assessment for this unit is constructed around real-world documents and tasks. The purpose of the assessment is to ensure that you have both the necessary theoretical understanding and the practical skills required of an effective and proactive intelligence officer or investigator. Collaborative practice activities will serve as formative assessment, which will provide you with early feedback to assist you with building your knowledge and skills prior to the summative assessment items. There will also be an opportunity to submit your proposed scenario and receive feedback in preparation for Assessment 1.
There are two summative tasks:
1. Intelligence Collection Plan - This task connects the early stages of the intelligence cycle with a real-world scenario to plan for intelligence collection.
2. Intelligence Briefing - Following on from the collection plan, the intelligence information will be analysed and a product of the intelligence activities will be delivered as a verbal briefing.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Intelligence Collection Plan
You will produce an intelligence plan based on open source data of a real world scenario you propose. In your plan you will explain the reason for your data selection and how you will collect and collate the data to identify patterns and risks. You will justify your planning drawing on the unit and wider literature.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Intelligence Briefing
You will produce a recorded presentation of an intelligence briefing analysing the intelligence data set you identified in Assessment One. In your presentation you will critically evaluate the reliability, clarity and thoroughness of the intelligence material. You will also make recommendations to inform the investigation team.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
This unit will draw from real world documentation and additional readings and resources provided throughout the modules.
Risk Assessment Statement
Students are advised that some content in justice units may be confronting. If you are concerned that the content of a unit may impact your completion of the course, please see the unit coordinator. You can also access free student counselling through QUT Counselling via the QUT Student Homepage.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.JQ20 Graduate Certificate in Investigations and Intelligence
- Evaluate complex and sensitive investigations to recommend fair and evidence-based resolutions.
Relates to: ULO4, Intelligence Briefing - Critically analyse intelligence material to identify patterns and risk, and inform intelligence-led investigations.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, Intelligence Collection Plan, Intelligence Briefing - Employ and evaluate professional communication for reliability, thoroughness and clarity.
Relates to: ULO3, ULO4, Intelligence Briefing
Unit Outline: Session 4 2024, QUT Online, Online
| Unit code: | JSQ211 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
Overview
Intelligence informs strategic, operational and tactical approaches to investigations. This unit will explore the intelligence process, including planning and prioritising intelligence activities, information collection and collation, intelligence analysis and dissemination. It will also consider ways to draw on intelligence analysis to produce recommendations to guide investigative and policy decisions.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Justify intelligence planning decisions, data selection and analysis methods drawing on the professional and academic literature
- Analyse intelligence data to identify patterns and risk.
- Evaluate intelligence material for validity and thoroughness
- Articulate evidence-based recommendations for intelligence led investigations.
Content
This unit will cover the following:
- The role of intelligence
- The intelligence cycle
- Processes of planning, collection and collation of data
- Data security
- Intelligence analysis processes, including social network analysis, data analysis and pattern identification
- Dissemination, including verbal briefings
- Developing recommendations
- Feedback and evaluation
Learning Approaches
This unit will be offered online in the form of self-contained modules that introduce you to new concepts, provide opportunities for you to apply your knowledge to real world scenarios and to work collaboratively to practice your skills.
The unit adopts reflective and collaborative learning approaches which allow you to work within a community of practice to build your knowledge and practice your skills in applying the role of intelligence in the investigative process.
Your participation in the unit includes:
- Independently working through the learning modules
- Discussing and collaborating with your peers to apply your knowledge to real world scenarios
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
The following types of feedback will assist you to develop the knowledge and skills in this unit:
- Self-feedback in the form of reflective activities
- Peer feedback in the form of group discussion and online collaborative sessions
- Adaptive feedback in the form of online interactive learning activities and quizzes
- Teacher feedback in the online collaborative sessions, discussion boards, and written feedback on assessment
Assessment
Overview
The summative assessment for this unit is constructed around real-world documents and tasks. The purpose of the assessment is to ensure that you have both the necessary theoretical understanding and the practical skills required of an effective and proactive intelligence officer or investigator. Collaborative practice activities will serve as formative assessment, which will provide you with early feedback to assist you with building your knowledge and skills prior to the summative assessment items. There will also be an opportunity to submit your proposed scenario and receive feedback in preparation for Assessment 1.
There are two summative tasks:
1. Intelligence Collection Plan - This task connects the early stages of the intelligence cycle with a real-world scenario to plan for intelligence collection.
2. Intelligence Briefing - Following on from the collection plan, the intelligence information will be analysed and a product of the intelligence activities will be delivered as a verbal briefing.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Intelligence Collection Plan
You will produce an intelligence plan based on open source data of a real world scenario you propose. In your plan you will explain the reason for your data selection and how you will collect and collate the data to identify patterns and risks. You will justify your planning drawing on the unit and wider literature.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Intelligence Briefing
You will produce a recorded presentation of an intelligence briefing analysing the intelligence data set you identified in Assessment One. In your presentation you will critically evaluate the reliability, clarity and thoroughness of the intelligence material. You will also make recommendations to inform the investigation team.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
This unit will draw from real world documentation and additional readings and resources provided throughout the modules.
Risk Assessment Statement
Students are advised that some content in justice units may be confronting. If you are concerned that the content of a unit may impact your completion of the course, please see the unit coordinator. You can also access free student counselling through QUT Counselling via the QUT Student Homepage.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.JQ20 Graduate Certificate in Investigations and Intelligence
- Evaluate complex and sensitive investigations to recommend fair and evidence-based resolutions.
Relates to: ULO4, Intelligence Briefing - Critically analyse intelligence material to identify patterns and risk, and inform intelligence-led investigations.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, Intelligence Collection Plan, Intelligence Briefing - Employ and evaluate professional communication for reliability, thoroughness and clarity.
Relates to: ULO3, ULO4, Intelligence Briefing