- Welcome and overview
- The need for intelligence analyst certifications
- Course administration and supplemental material
- Thinking about thinking I; critical thinking
- Critical thinking quiz
- Thinking about thinking II; logical, probable, and plausible reasoning
- Analytic pitfalls
- Insights into problem solving
- Section review quiz
- Problem restatement
- Section review quiz
- Gathering the evidence
- Evaluating the evidence
- Section review quiz
- Selecting the right technique
- Realizing the power of analytics: arming the human mind
- Sorting, chronologies, and timelines
- The matrix
- Decision/event trees
- Link analysis
- Analysis of competing hypotheses (ACH)
- Argument evaluation and reevaluation
- Final certification exam
- Bonus Lecture