Course

Course Summary
Credit Type:
Course
ACE ID:
DISA-0008
Organization's ID:
POE-201
Organization:
Defense Security Cooperation University (DSCU)
Location:
Hybrid
Length:
48 hours (16 online & 32 in-resident)
Dates Offered:
Credit Recommendation & Competencies
Level Credits (SH) Subject
Upper-Division Baccalaureate 3 international security cooperation
Description

Objective:

The course objective is for students to demonstrate how to create, oversee, and execute strategic level plans using the many complex and interrelated aspects of security cooperation and security assistance, coordinated among numerous agencies and countries, to achieve a strategic goal.

Learning Outcomes:

  • analyze and assess the political, military, economic, social, informational and infrastructural operational environment of an international region and/or country
  • analyze strategic level guidance, evaluate the partner nations will and ability to achieve desired security cooperation objectives, develop solutions, and propose courses of action (considering risks/assumptions) to align US and PN strategic objectives
  • create a performance monitoring plan that will assist in the monitoring, analyzing and evaluating the progress of a partner nation towards achieving a strategic effect needed to achieve a security cooperation objective
  • create a multi-year, synchronized, and in parallel, series of activities, projects, and programs planned as a unified, effort to achieve a single desired strategic objective
  • create, organize, and justify plans based on analyses and assessments to support leadership decision-making and inform strategy
  • demonstrate the ability to identify, prioritize, justify, and apply the resources involved in the SC planning process
  • synthesize and apply a vast array of concepts and tools, including discipline knowledge, planning concepts, tools, and considerations, resource and partner nation prioritization, and alignment of strategic interests
  • articulate and defend choices made in developing analyses, assessments, and proposed solutions
  • effectively apply planning tools and processes to situations presented in a sample case study.

General Topics:

  • Security cooperation (SC) legislation and policy
  • SCO roles, responsibilities, and relationships
  • U.S. embassy country teams
  • Introduction to the U.S. government interagency community
  • Security cooperation (SC) programs
  • Contact programs
  • HA/FDR/HCA
  • Roles and stakeholders
  • Higher level guidance
  • Prioritizing security cooperation demands
  • Understanding partner nation needs
  • Linking partner nation needs to U.S. strategy
  • Linking security cooperation resources to U.S. strategy
  • Executing building partner capacity
  • AM&E and transition
  • Early assessments
  • Strategy to capability
  • Writing an SSCI objective and developing a logic framework
  • Refining the logic framework and constructing a theory of change
  • Developing a performance monitoring plan
  • Identifying inputs: DOTMLPF-P and the 5-year plan
  • SSCI proposal and 333 addendum
Instruction & Assessment

Instructional Strategies:

  • Audio Visual Materials
  • Case Studies
  • Classroom Exercise
  • Computer Based Training
  • Discussion
  • Laboratory
  • Learner Presentations
  • Lectures
  • Practical Exercises

Methods of Assessment:

  • Case Studies
  • Examinations
  • Performance Rubrics (Checklists)
  • Presentations
  • Quizzes
  • Written Papers

Minimum Passing Score:

80%
Supplemental Materials