Bachelor of Science in Public Safety Administration

• Public Safety Seminar
  
  An interdisciplinary course in the Public Safety Administration program structured to offer tools to maximize academic learning performance throughout the program. The content of this course offers on-ground and online strategies for effectively organizing the academic degree plan, assessing prior learning, and presenting research methodologies by linking professional and academic experiences.
  
  
• Managerial Communications
  
  Students will demonstrate the fundamentals and application of writing and presentation used in formal settings in the professional environment.
  
  
• Research Methodology
  
  This course helps students identify problems, review related literature, collect data, and measure objectives in the public safety environment. Students will apply analytical skills to public safety-related research projects.
  
  
• Group Dynamics
  
  This course examines how group behavior affects organizational effectiveness, decision-making, conflict resolution, and strategies for efficient group and task management.
  
  
• Psychology of Professional Development
  
  This course provides an introduction to concepts related to human personality development, a review of theoretical positions underlying personality, and an examination of factors contributing to both normal and abnormal personality characteristics.
  
  
• Human Resource Management
  
  This course explores values and perceptions of groups that affect recruiting, training, retention, evaluation, and current legal issues in human resources.
  
  
• Political and Legal Systems
  
  An analysis and application of the legal system’s model for understanding governmental, legal, and operational problems via the application of systems theory.
  
  
• Industrial and Organizational Psychology
  
  The application of social and organizational psychological methods and principles to business and industry. Topics to be covered include human behavior at work, personnel selection and evaluation, motivation and job satisfaction, management philosophies, employee-management relationships, job evaluation, work and equipment design, working conditions, accident and human errors, and consumer psychology.
  
  
• Information Technology and Systems
  
  This course focuses on the organizational, management, and technology dimensions of information systems. Although many technologies are covered, it is not intended to be a technology class.
  
  
• Ethics in Public Safety
  
  This course explores case issues and philosophies as they relate to accountability in the public safety environment.
  
  
• Fundamentals of Counseling and Guidance
  
  Designed for teachers, ministers, business persons, industrial workers, or workers in sociology. Emphasis is placed on the proper use of psychology as a tool for guidance by persons in various occupations.
  
  
• Public Safety and the Community
  
  A major focus will be the underlying philosophies, values, mission, planning and development of programs and systems, and evaluating and altering them. The process of anticipating current and future challenges and the impacts of public policy, public opinion, and customer dynamics will also be explored.
  
  
• Organizational Development & Change
  
  An overview of approaches to organizational development with emphasis in the practical aspects of changing public safety organizations to improve effectiveness.
  
  
• Project Management
  
  This course addresses basic concepts in project management, emphasizing a balance between the technical aspects of project work.
  
  
• Strategic Planning
  
  This course deals with the fundamentals and application of strategic analysis and planning in public safety.
  
  
• Public Safety Capstone
  
  Course provides a structured way to organize facts, information, and ideas from the academic major. Theoretical concepts from the major will be discussed by critically analyzing and evaluating ideas relating to a practical application process.