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Popular Resources
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*Continuous Learning (CL) courses are not shownSpecial Operations Forces- Influence and Operations in the Information Environment (Pilot)
Summit
Theater Special Operations Command Staff Preparation Course-Mobile
Recent Publications
Special Operations Research Topics 2023
The Network Illusion: How a Network-Centric Special Operations Culture Impedes Strategic Effect
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Featured Publications
Quick Links
JSOU's Upcoming Events
ThinkJSOU with Dr. Rory Cormac: How To Stage A Coup And Ten Other Lessons from the World of Secret Statecraft
Lunchtime Talk with Nick Reynolds: Need to Know: World War II and the Rise of American Intelligence
Recently Ended
Lunchtime Talk with Nick Reynolds: Need to Know: World War II and the Rise of American Intelligence
Lunchtime Talk: Irregular Warfare in Strategic Competition
ThinkJSOU Panel: The 2022 National Security Strategy and Interagency Cooperation
SOF Design and Innovation Advanced Course
Description
SDIA-V is a six-week distance learning course requiring a student commitment of 6-8 hours per week. The course provides advanced military design education for students interested in organizational change, innovation, creativity and disruptive thinking for SOF applications in complex emergent contexts. Students build on their requisite knowledge and apply additional theory towards designing in teams. Students will learn and employ wide range of multi-disciplinary design concepts in a flexible, adaptive methodology for fostering reflective practitioners and change agents across the SOCOM enterprise. Utilizing a JSOU’s e-campus, online collaboration software, and a teleconferencing platform, students will asynchronously read, view, and listen to design content and subsequently collaborate in a live team design project, and present to the design sponsor, faculty, and peers their artifacts and progress. The course requires a student commitment of the following: • Self-paced distance learning 3-5 hours per week • 2 weekly live faculty-facilitated group design collaboration sessions 2hrs per week • 1 weekly Design Sponsor engagement 1 hour per week (Fridays Weeks 2-6 only)
Audience
Primary: Those action officers from USSOCOM enterprise who may participate in design teams or individually wish to apply design thinking towards complex challenges. Secondary: Any military or government professional requiring methods and techniques for critical and disruptive thinking, creativity, and fostering organizational change.
Prerequisites
Materials
1. Course Student Guide - mailed – 14 days prior to course start date) 2. All other materials are provided through JSOU e-Campus (Blackboard). Student’s access is provided NLT 14 – days prior to the course start date. a. SOC 3440 Review Materials (Self-Determined and Self-Paced) b. SOC 4445 SDIA Course Modules and Materials