Course in Psychological Operations in Global Wars
From ancient propaganda to modern PSYOPS: understanding how conflicts are influenced
* 50% reduction reserved for: employees of public bodies; members of the Armed Forces, Police Corps and auxiliary Corps; private security and investigation operators; employees and consultants of companies in the Defence, Aerospace and Critical Infrastructure sectors; members of the National Register of Intelligence Analysts. Study grant of an equivalent amount for university students, unemployed/never-employed persons and pensioners.
Overview
The Advanced Professional Development Course in Psychological Operations in Global Wars offers, from an interdisciplinary perspective, the knowledge relating to PSYOPS: those psychological operations understood as non-coercive actions, planned to influence the attitudes and actions of hostile, neutral or friendly groups in order to achieve the desired result. A journey that traces the history of propaganda from antiquity through to the new framework of information operations.
The Course is aimed at State officials, members of the Armed Forces and Police Forces, business operators (with particular attention to critical infrastructure and the defence and aerospace sectors), intelligence scholars and analysts, media and private security operators, university researchers and anyone who, driven by strong motivation, wishes to acquire a sound knowledge of the subjects covered.
The training is entirely online: UNINTESS adopts an e-learning methodology that overcomes the barriers of space and time, delivering the lessons directly to the student's email inbox. A flexible approach that allows you to study anywhere and at any time, reconciling work and family commitments.
The Course is organised into four modules, which guide the participant from the historical origins of propaganda through to modern information operations.
First Module: Propaganda from antiquity to the modern era
- The ancient world
- The wars of religion
- The American War of Independence
Second Module: The emergence of modern propaganda
- The negative evolution of the term
- The First World War
- The Second World War
Third Module: Evolution
- The Cold War and the Korean War
- Indirect action in modern warfare and the Vietnam War
- Operation "Just Cause" in Panama and the Gulf War
- The "IFOR" and "SFOR" operations in Bosnia
- Operation "Allied Force" in Serbia and Kosovo
- The War on Terror: Operation "Enduring Freedom" in Afghanistan and Operation "Iraqi Freedom"
Fourth Module: Psychological operations in the new framework of information operations
- The environment of Information Operations
- The purpose of psychological operations: strategic, consolidation and tactical PSYOPS
- The principles and advantages of psychological operations
- The dissemination tools and information support for psychological operations
- Psychological operations and Public Information
- Psychological operations and Civil-Military Cooperation (CIMIC)
- Psychological operations and deception
- Psychological operations in Peace Support Operations
On completion of the programme, having passed the examination, UNINTESS issues to those assessed as suitable a Diploma formally attesting the achievement of a high level of knowledge of the topics covered in the Course programme.
- Assessment: a single test in the form of a multiple-choice test, administered at the end of the Course, which is deemed passed with a minimum score of 18/30.
- Entry requirements: a degree (old-system, specialist or bachelor's), a secondary school diploma or an equivalent foreign qualification.
- Timing: a total commitment of approximately 200 hours; the student chooses the start date and must complete the programme within the 12th month following enrolment.
- ECTS and public administration: the Diploma may be submitted to your own Degree Course Board to be recognised as curricular ECTS credits; public administration staff are also provided with the documentation needed to request any recognition of the Course.
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