Intelligence and Security Informatics

The course provides both practical and theoretical knowledge of how information technology can be used for intelligence analysis and security-related applications.

• Course structure

  The course includes:

  • Technology and method for analysis of data from the Internet
  • Text analysis: how to generate structured information from unstructured text
  • Author recognition and profiling
  • Social network analysis (SNA)
  • Psychology and psychometry
  • Influence and deception
  • Violent extremism and the internet
  • Ethical aspects

  Teaching format

  Lectures and seminars. 

  Assessment

  The course is examined through written exam and assignments.

  Examiner

• Schedule
  The schedule will be available no later than one month before the start of the course. We do not recommend print-outs as changes can occur. At the start of the course, your department will advise where you can find your schedule during the course.

• Course literature

  Note that the course literature can be changed up to two months before the start of the course.

   

• Contact
  Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, DSV

  Study counsellors - master

  Margrét Håkansson and Mitra Wijkman

  master@dsv.su.se

  08-16 16 86

  

  • Visiting address

  • Nod Buildning, Borgarfjordsgatan 12, Kista

  • Office hours

  • Please contact us via email if you want to book a meeting. We are available on Campus in Kista and via Zoom.

  • Phone hours

  • Thursday 12.30–2 pm

  • Irregular office hours

  • Last phone hours of autumn semester 2024: 12 December

    First phone hours of spring semester 2025: 9 January