National Defense University - 2018 Fall Electives POLL

Message Bookmarked
Bookmark Removed

You have been accepted to the United States of America's National Defense University, located at beautiful Fort McNair in Washington DC. It is August. The weather is very sweaty, but the classrooms are very fluorescent. Select your 2018 Fall Elective.

In order to help you make the right choice in order to Imagine, Create and Secure a Stronger Peace, the link to the full catalogue of electives is here. Don't get distracted by the spring semester stuff.

Poll Results

OptionVotes
Strategic Gaming 3
A History of the Vietnam War 2
Social Media as a Source of Information – Legal, Policy & Ethical Issues 2
Play Ball! Sports and National Security 2
Energy and the Environment for Strategists 1
The Ethical Strategist – Incorporating Values-Based Decision Making into Strategy and Policy Development 1
Russia and the World: The Strategy of World Disorder 1
Strategic Ethics Through Cinematic Narrative 1
Health Strategy as a Foundation for National and Global Security 0
Joint Land Air Sea Strategic-Special Program (JLASS-SP) 0
Non-Lethal Weapons: Supporting the Operational Art Across the Range of Military Operations 0
American Studies I (Open to International Fellows at CIC/ES/NWC) 0
U.S. Civil-Military Relations and Professionalism 0
Joint Issues and Strategic Leadership 0
Contemporary China 0
Intelligence Challenges, Structures, and Strategies 0
Congress and National Security 0
Strategies of World War II 0
The European Union 0
Innovation 0
George Washington, Strategy, Intelligence, and Revolution 0
American Studies I (American Fellows Program) 0
Ethical Leadership and Strategic Organizations: Changing the Culture, Eliminating Toxic Behaviors, and Creating High-Pe 0
Cyber Security in the 21st Century 0
Infrastructures and Information Operations 0
Nuclear Statecraft 0
Nuclear Threat and Response 0
Perspectives on the American Way of War 0
Principles of Homeland Security 0
Economics of National Security Policy 0
Science and Technology Policy 0
Sustaining Technological Advantage in Defense Acquisition 0
Leading Innovation in Business and Government 0
Congress and the Quest for Acquisition Reform 0
Supply Chain Management Concepts and Strategy I 0
Research Elective 0
Contemporary Issues in Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction: Through the Film-maker's Lens 0
The Gravest Danger: Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction 0
Ethical Challenges for Strategic Leaders 0
Rule of Law: Policing and National Security 0
Big Data to Decisions 0


El Tomboto, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 19:16 (five years ago) link

Hm, from titles alone, here's what I'm into:

Nuclear Statecraft
Nuclear Threat and Response
Congress and the Quest for Acquisition Reform
Strategic Ethics Through Cinematic Narrative
Strategic Gaming
A History of the Vietnam War
George Washington, Strategy, Intelligence, and Revolution
Contemporary China

faculty w1fe (silby), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 19:24 (five years ago) link

Cinema is the driver of a vehicle made by drama that transports us along the highway to truth, lying at the foot of a mountain we must scale to reach the pinnacle of justice

jmm, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 19:26 (five years ago) link

I think I'd take Russia and the World.

jmm, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 19:34 (five years ago) link

ball sports

liberally social (darraghmac), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 19:35 (five years ago) link

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/images/13/jan/wargames1.jpg

Eliza D., Wednesday, 15 August 2018 19:40 (five years ago) link

INNOVATION

j., Wednesday, 15 August 2018 19:40 (five years ago) link

there are actually two on innovation, which is probably because of bitter curricular battles between different factions in different departments 20 years ago

j., Wednesday, 15 August 2018 19:42 (five years ago) link

I'd be curious to discover what approach is taken in the course: Energy and the Environment for Strategists. Will it be bold enough to criticize short-sighted US policy as a threat to our national security, or would it gingerly avoid that area and only look at how to weaken or undermine our adversaries.

A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 19:54 (five years ago) link

the whole school is about training people who will become big top generals and admirals 5-10 years from now so you can take a guess on the angle - military people might lean GOP but they're realist as fuck

El Tomboto, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 22:52 (five years ago) link

Eliza, please:

What is the best game on the WOPR computer from Wargames?

WORLD WAR THREE

El Tomboto, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 22:54 (five years ago) link

I really hope Morbius votes in this. There's two courses about movies for christ's sake

El Tomboto, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 22:58 (five years ago) link

This is a really tough episode of jeopardy.

American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 16 August 2018 01:49 (five years ago) link

can’t believe nobody is jumping at “research elective”

El Tomboto, Thursday, 16 August 2018 18:06 (five years ago) link

Social Media as a Source of Information – Legal, Policy & Ethical Issues

reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 16 August 2018 18:21 (five years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Monday, 20 August 2018 00:01 (five years ago) link

I bet I can guess what System voted

El Tomboto, Monday, 20 August 2018 20:47 (five years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 00:01 (five years ago) link

sad to have missed this; would of course have voted SEATO Decapitating

i am genuinely interested in what might be taught in Play Ball! Sports and National Security tbh

mookieproof, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 00:07 (five years ago) link

I'm really disappointed nobody voted for the class where you get to watch The Peacemaker for course credit

El Tomboto, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 00:24 (five years ago) link

one month passes...

I got the big data one. It seems like it'll be a crib course.

El Tomboto, Saturday, 29 September 2018 03:37 (five years ago) link

Ask how big data is before it’s big

I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Saturday, 29 September 2018 04:24 (five years ago) link

when two people with large media collections love each other very much and decide to consolidate their libraries, that's big data

El Tomboto, Saturday, 29 September 2018 04:42 (five years ago) link


You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.