Recommended Professional Development Courses
- What kinds of courses will enhance my professional development?
Note: The courses listed below are suggestions only. Please check with the appropriate authority to ensure a specific course will count towards your professional development.
CDSE Courses
- Instructor-led: DoD Security
Specialist Course GS101.01
- Instructor-led: Introduction to Special Access Programs SA101.01
- Virtual Instructor-led: Writing and Communication Skills for Security Professionals ED201.01
- Virtual Instructor-led: Understanding Adversaries and Threats to the United States and the DoD ED504.01
- eLearning: Introduction to Personnel Security PS113.16
- eLearning: Introduction to Information Security IF011.16
- eLearning: Risk Management
for DoD Security Programs GS102.16
- eLearning: Special Access Programs (SAP) Overview SA001.16
- eLearning: Personnel Clearances in the NISP IS142.16
- eLearning: Marking Classified Information IF105.16
- eLearning: Facility Clearances in the NISP IS140.16
- eLearning: NISP Reporting
Requirements IS150.16
- eLearning: Introduction
to Physical Security PY011.16
Other Agency Courses
- eLearning: Unauthorized Disclosure of Classified Information for DoD and Industry IF130.16
- Shorts: Information Assurance Awareness Shorts (DISA)
Courses from The Graduate School , such as:
- Bankruptcy Law
- Basic Project Management (GS Classic)
- Business Law and Practices
- Clear Writing through Critical Thinking
- Creative Problem Solving
- Criminal Law
- Family Law
- Immigration Law
- Leadership Skills for Non-Supervisors
- Personnel Security and Suitability Adjudication
- Practical Writing (GS Classic)
- Put It in Writing (GS Classic)
- Suitability Adjudication
- Time Management
- Writing Reports and Other Workplace Documents (GS Classic)
- Writing Sentences and Paragraphs Effectively
- Writing Short Informational Reports
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