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Questions and Discussion Topics

To fully participate in the Live Session, you must actively engage with the course materials. During our time together, I would like to address any questions you may have or related areas of interest. To help facilitate this, you are required to write a 150-200 word response to the week's prompt and connected to this week's topic. Discussion prompts change each week, depending on the module topic. Your prompt response post should reference course material as well as sources, when possible. Your post should demonstrate comprehension of the subject matter at hand. We'll discuss these response posts in our Live Sessions each week. Post your Prompt Response before 12 PM (noon) on Tuesday. This will give me time to review your questions ahead of our Live Session.

In your posts, you might want to:

Seek clarification
Ask for elaboration
Relate a current event or timely topic to the week's course material
Provide your personal opinion or belief on an issue raised in the course material
Share your personal experience, if relevant
etc.

Any sincere questions covering our material for this week will be respected.

After you submit your questions or comments, you will be able to see the posts of the other students in the class. I encourage you to read through their posts and "like" one or two of the other posts. The aggregate "likes" will help me prioritize what we will talk about during the Live Session.

Week 1 Prompt

Given what you know at this stage about intelligence collection, especially as it pertains to the Intelligence Cycle, intelligence requirements, and the 5 Intelligence Disciplines, describe a real-world scenario where you could employ these concepts for the benefit of your organization.

What question would you attempt to answer?
Which -INTs would you use?
What would you target?

Post your initial response to the discussion forum by Tuesday at 12:00 PM. Your initial response to the discussion prompt should be approximately 150-200 words in length. You must include citations to support any claims made in your post.