UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS
Public Safety Management Major
Program Chair, Redd Branner, Ph.D. Curriculum Development Team: John Carruthers, Ph.D. Lewis Chongwony, Ph.D., Instructional Designer Advisory Boards (listed on page 205)
Efficient and effective public safety agencies continue to be the cornerstone of every community. As in all professions, standards have been raised. Former blue collar public safety officials are being replaced by individuals with both experience and education. Many communities and states are establishing new standards for the leaders and managers of public safety agencies. In today’s world, public safety agencies emphasize decision-making and fiscal responsibility with quality service that equals those in the private sector. The public safety leader of the 21st century will be expected to represent his or her agency professionally with the highest degree of fiscal accountability.
The major integrates courses in business administration, communication and leadership to provide the student with the background necessary for upward mobility within their organizational structures of a public safety agency. Graduates of the Public Safety Management Major will: • Apply principles of basic accounting fiscal management and budgeting appropriate to a public safety agency
• Compare and contrast the similarities and differences between the roles of managers and leaders in a public safety agency
• Apply basic management skills of planning, organizing, staffing, directing, coordinating, managing change, and decision making within a public safety agency
• Apply critical thinking, reasoning and analytical skills required for ethical decision-making and problem solving in a public safety agency
• Apply appropriate ethical principles, laws, and human relations skills to all facets of operation in a public safety agency
• Demonstrate the ability to make optimal use of available resources to successfully design and manage projects in a public safety agency
ADMISSION CRITERIA
Public Safety Management is a completion major designed to complement the existing technical skills of an individual to include general knowledge, communication skills and application of business and leadership practices. The major will accept students who have the equivalent of an associate’s degree, including 24 semester credit hours (36 quarter credit hours) of courses in a defined technical discipline that has a public safety mission, from an accredited institution or professional certification from an approved public safety training academy. The 24 semester hours of instruction must be approved by the Public Safety Management Program Chair.
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (B.S.) PUBLIC SAFETY MANAGEMENT (124 SEMESTER HOURS)
Students entering the major with an Associate of Applied Science (A.A.S.) or technical training and other college credit must satisfy General Education requirements listed below for a total of 50 hours in General Education.
TECHNICAL CREDIT
Students with Associate of Applied Science (A.A.S.) degrees in Law Enforcement, Criminal Justice, Fire Safety, Emergency Medical Services, Corrections or other Public Safety related fields will satisfy the Technical and some of the General Education requirements of the Bachelor of Science degree major in Public Safety Management at Franklin University. Students without an A.A.S. degree must satisfy the Technical and all of the General Education requirements listed below.
FUNDAMENTAL GENERAL EDUCATION CORE (24 HOURS)* *All courses must be at the 100 or 200 level
Minimum of three semester hours of English Composition (if the course does not have a research paper component, COMM 130 Research Paper, two semester credits, is also required) Choose COMM 120 College Writing.
Minimum of three semester hours of Mathematics (at least one mathematics or statistics course beyond the level of intermediate algebra) Choose from MATH 160 College Algebra, MATH 180 Applied Calculus, MATH 210 Finite Mathematics, MATH 220 Business Calculus, or MATH 215 Statistical Concepts.
Minimum of six semester hours of Sciences (two science courses, with one having a laboratory component) Choose from the Science discipline.
Minimum of six semester hours of Social and Behavioral Sciences (which must be in at least two different disciplines) Choose from the Anthropology, Economics, Psychology, and Sociology disciplines.
Minimum of six semester hours of Arts and Humanities Choose from the Humanities discipline.
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