NIU Thesis Turn-In Questionnaire (Revised: May 2017)
Your Name: Student Number:
Instructions:
• Please complete both sides - disregard questions that do not apply to your thesis.
• Complete the form online, email a copy to your thesis chair, and post a copy to the shared
drive along with your thesis.
• If you type classified information into this form, be sure to use portion marks, put the correct
information in the banners, and complete the classificaiton authority block (classified by, dervied
from, declassify on).
Please Mark All That Apply To Your Thesis
Research Design / Methodology: Intelligence Military Service COCOM:
Case Study Discipline (INT): or Agency:
(Single/Comparison/History)
Interviews OSINT Army AFRICOM
Behavioral/Experimental COMINT Air Force CENTCOM
Modeling and Simulation ELINT Navy EUCOM
Surveys/Questionnaires GEOINT Marines NORTHCOM
Archival Research HUMINT Coast Guard PACOM
Phenomenological IMINT DIA SOUTHCOM
Statistical/Quantitative MASINT CIA SOCOM
Open Systems Design SIGINT NSA JFCOM
Rational Decision Model NGA STRATCOM
Grounded Theory TRANSCOM
Personal Observation
Game Theory Other: Other: Other:
Other:
List Country/Countries:
Region (if applicable):
Written in conjunction with an NIU Certificate Program:
Written in conjunction with an NIU Special Research Project:
Classified By:
Derived From:
Declassify On:
Please Complete Both Pages
Please Mark All That Apply to Your Thesis
Intelligence Intelligence Practice: Lessons learned
Community International Engagement – improving intelligence sharing
Management Intelligence Support to Policy, Plans, and Operations
National Intelligence and Law Enforcement (Homeland Security)
Intelligence support to humanitarian disasters and relief operations
Homeland defense and critical infrastructure / cyber protection
OTHER:
Intelligence Teaching Intelligence
Studies Research Methods / Analytic Techniques
History of Intelligence
OTHER:
Science and Emerging and Disruptive Technologies
Technology Energy Security
Geostrategic Environment and Natural Resources
Infectious disease and health
Cyber Threat
Weapons of Mass Destruction – Biological / Chemical / Missiles / Nuclear
Advanced Conventional Weapons
Foreign threats to space based infrastructure / Foreign space operations
OTHER:
Strategic Foreign Denial and Deception
Intelligence Counterintelligence and foreign intelligence services
Global trends and futures
Transnational Threats
Terrorism
Economic Stability and Financial Networks
Agriculture and food security
Illicit drugs
International organized crime
International trade
Foreign Leadership Intentions
Foreign policy
Regional conflict and crises
Democratization and Political Stability
Demographics and Migration
Human rights and war crimes
OTHER:
Military Foreign defense strategy, policies and doctrine
Intelligence Defense economics / Defense industries and arms trade
Foreign military forces and capabilities (Command & Control / Campaign planning /
Military systems / Military readiness, exercises & training / Order of battle)
Military and civilian infrastructure
Arms control and treaty monitoring
POW and MIA
OTHER: