SIA at Northeastern University

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate SIA coursework.

• SIA 6010Intelligence Operations Managementopens 2 courses (2 directly)
• SIA 6020Intelligence in a Globalized Worldopens 2 courses (2 directly)
• SIA 6030Intelligence Analysis and Policy Relationshipopens 2 courses (2 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate SIA work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 6 SIA and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 14 more SIA courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in SIA. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 2 courses deep, ending at SIA 6983

  1. SIA 6010Intelligence Operations Management
  2. SIA 6983Topics in Strategic Intelligence and Analysis

• 2 courses deep, ending at SIA 7990

  1. GST 6109Basic Field Research Methods
  2. SIA 7990Thesis

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for SIA yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under SIA yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

SIA does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Northeastern campus feed.