Writing:Security Professionals

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

The national security field is filled with brilliant people nobody can understand. Their ideas drown in insider language called “wonk.” Wonk is also used by exceptionally non-brilliant people to disguise that they don’t have anything new to say. This course will help students identify the wonk within and exorcise it. The ability to make a powerful argument clearly is critical to influencing national security debates, which should be the goal of every good practitioner. Students will turn what they’ve learned at Georgetown into simple ideas anyone can understand. The practice of writing will help students discover what they believe about the most critical questions facing our community.