Scope¹

This program is designed to provide the officers with fundamental interdisciplinary techniques of quantitative problem-solving methods, behavioral and management science, economic analysis and financial management and to enable the officers to evaluate the written research, study and analysis product of others throughout their careers. The curriculum will further provide the officers with the specific functional skills required to effectively manage.

The curriculum integrates mathematics, accounting, economics, behavioral science, management theory, operations / systems analysis and a subspecialty concentration area into an understanding of the process by which the defense mission is accomplished. Specialty concentration areas are selected by the student by their choice of course options.

The 818 curriculum allows students to design a program of course work specific to management effectiveness in the host country's military system. The student may elect to specialize in the relevant portion of a functional area such as financial, logistics, human resources and organization, or manpower and personnel analysis. Or, the student may choose to follow a general management program which would include an overall balance of courses from many areas.

Source:

¹ United States, Defense Security Assistance Agency, Expanded IMET Handbook, (Washington: February 14, 1997) I-20.