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Active
  
September 2000

Garrison/HQ
  
MacDill AFB, Florida

Country
  
United States

Joint Special Operations University

Type
  
Special Operations education

Role
  
Educating Special Operations Forces executive, senior, and intermediate leaders and selected other national and international security decision-makers, both military and civilian, through teaching, research, and outreach in the science and art of Joint Special Operations.

Part of
  
United States Special Operations Command

The Joint Special Operations University (JSOU) is the designated agency within USSOCOM to conduct joint Special Operations Force (SOF) education and thus is tasked with and directed to provide relevant, realistic, leading-edge education opportunities to military and civilian special operations forces personnel around the world, located at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, USA.

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Capable of full-spectrum joint SOF focused instruction, JSOU provides cohesive education support to SOF personnel, and other non-SOF decision makers at intermediate and senior levels. The university conducts off-station tutorials and courses as well as video teleconferencing instruction to supported units worldwide.

Notable courses

JSOU delivers unique SOF educational opportunities through residence and online courses and integration of SOF curriculum with service Professional Military Education Schools. Some of the notable courses the University offers include:

  • Irregular Warfare Theory
  • Theater Special Operations Command Staff Preparatory Course (TSPC)
  • Advanced training for newly assigned staff officers and senior enlisted personnel
  • Combating terrorism courses to inform the US special operations community, key civilians, and international special operations partners in the War on Terrorism.
  • Orientation to foreign cultures
  • Inter-agency Collaboration Course
  • Special Operations Intelligence Course (SOIC)
  • Master's Certificate Program

    JSOU has begun a Master's Certificate Program in Joint Special Operations. As of 2014 the course was implemented but awaiting accreditation.

    References

    Joint Special Operations University Wikipedia