Subject: Introduction to intelligence systems and services    
Course: Introduction to intelligence systems and services    
ECTS credits: 3
Language: Croatian
Duration: 1 semester
Status: elective
Method of teaching: 1 hour of lecture, and 1 hour of seminar
Prerequisite: none
Assessment: written and oral assessment

Course description:
The course will give the insight into the area and subject of intelligence activities: national security. It will also present the intelligence cycle: design of intelligence requirements, information gathering, processing the collected information, analysis and production of intelligence: types of intelligence reports and the management of reporting processes. Also, it will teach the division of intelligence activities: intelligence activity, counter-intelligence activities, and special operations. Basic terminology will be given: agents and agent network; types of intelligence products. Few examples of National Intelligence Service will be given. Difference between intelligence and business services will be discussed. Theory of information, misinformation, disinformation, intelligence reports are also among the topics of the course. Information Operations and Information Warfare as key instruments of information dominance in 21st century will be discussed. Also at the course will be discussed intelligence as subject of Information science.  

Course objectives:
a) To introduce the students to the area of intelligence systems and services; to acquire basic knowledge of terminology.
b) To understand the tasks of national intelligence systems and services, as well as business intelligence systems and services.
c) To make the students competent in selecting methods for distinguishing nature of information, disinformation and intelligence.

Quality check and success of the course:
Quality check and success of the course will be done by combining internal and external evaluation. Internal evaluation will be done by teachers and students using survey method at the end of semester. The external evaluation will be done by colleagues attending the course, by monitoring and assessment of the course.

Reading list:
1. Gordan Akrap: “Specijalni rat 1-3”, Despot infinitus, Zagreb, 2012.
2. Anton Grizold: «Međunarodna sigurnost. Teorijsko-institucionalni okvir», Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Fakultet političkih znanosti, Zagreb, 1998
3. Lisa Krizan: «Intelligence Essentials For Everyone», Joint Military Intelligence College, Washington, DC, June 1999
4. George J. Stein, AWC: «INFORMATION WARFARE», Airpower Journal - Spring 1995.,  http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/apj/spr95.html
5. M. Tuđman: «HIS: 1993-1998. Prvih pet godina Hrvatske izvještajne službe», Nacionalna sigurnost i budućnost, Zbornik 1., Zagreb: udruga sv. Jurja, 2001., str. 23-51.
6. M. Tuđman: «Prikazalište znanja», Hrvatska sveučilišna naklada, Zagreb, 2003, str. 29. - 50.
7. M. Tuđman: «Informacijska znanost i informcijsko ratište», Hrvatska sveučilišna naklada, Zagreb, 2008.
8. Vladimir Volkov: «Dezinformacija. Od trojanskog konja do interneta», Naš dom, Beograd, 2001.