Description:
The Strategic Defense Technologies certificate includes enrollment in 3 courses of the course series.
- Technology, War, and Strategy (required): This course introduces students to the interaction between strategy and technology internationally and across historical eras.
Plus two from the following list:
- Grand Challenges in Defense Engineering: This course examines past, present, and future engineering challenges to develop new conceptual insight, research priorities, system integration, and timely methods to meet emerging national defense engineering needs.
- Space Strategy: The course analyzes the origins, tensions, and promises embedded in the space-focused strategies of major international players.
- Strategic Defense Foresight and Leadership: The course analyzes the origins, tensions, and promises embedded in the space-focused strategies of major international players.
- Data and AI Storytelling: Data and AI Storytelling is the art of telling effective data stories by combining elements of data science, visualization, and storytelling. This course covers concepts borrowed from rhetoric, communication, narrative structure, data research, data analysis, visualization techniques, and data ethics.