College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Center for Anticipatory Intelligence
The Graduate Certificate in Anticipatory Intelligence at Utah State University is part of the nation’s first graduate program in Anticipatory Intelligence. This compact 15-credit graduate certificate is designed to be completed with part-time study across one or two years and is built to complement career tracks or other graduate degrees across a wide range of STEM disciplines, social sciences, humanities, arts, and more. Its purpose is to equip graduate students and professionals with a sophisticated grasp of how the world’s fast-evolving forces in cyber, big data, artificial intelligence, bioengineering, climate change, information metastasis, societal cohesion, and other domains are converging into transformative threats and opportunities for the twenty-first century.
The Graduate Certificate in Anticipatory Intelligence prepares graduate students and professionals with actionable hard and soft skills in systems-level thinking and emergent security challenges, as well as sophistication in interdisciplinary analysis, synthesis, and cross-domain collaboration relating to the complex security issues affecting their own professional field. This curriculum offers strong value-added benefit for individuals pursuing a wide range of professions in the private sector, public service, nonprofit work, and academia.
Detailed information on the Graduate Certificate in Anticipatory Intelligence, including application requirements, annual application window, and guidance for prospective students is provided on the program website, cai.usu.edu. Once matriculated within the program, students must complete a minimum of 15 credit hours: 9 credits of required courses and 6 credits of approved elective courses. All courses must be passed with a C grade or better.