Administration and Supervision BAS, Public Safety Management Concentration (PS-BAS)

The curriculum leading to the BAS in Administration and Supervision with a concentration in Public Safety Management provides current and future public safety professionals with the opportunity to attain a degree that will enhance their placement into entry-level positions and promotions to higher-level management and supervisory positions within the public safety community. This concentration provides a curriculum that broadens the student's knowledge in applied public safety management in order to facilitate professional advancement.

Christa Ruber

District Academic Department Head, Allied Health

Public Safety Management Concentration

850-484-2301

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Frances Duncan

Dean, Warrington Campus

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Dr. Douglas A. Wymer

Dean, Baccalaureate Studies and Academic Support

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Upper Division Requirements:

Admission requires an AAS, an AS, an AA degree, or at least sixty credits in a related discipline including at least fifteen semester hours of transferable general education coursework.

For AS and AAS graduates, an additional fifteen to twenty one general education credits are required to complete the thirty-six credit hour general education requirement of Pensacola State College.

Also, all students must complete eight college credit hours of the same foreign language or two consecutive years of the same foreign language in high school.

General Education Courses (15-21 additional credits beyond the AAS or AS degree)

	Communications	9 cc
	Humanities/Fine Arts	6 cc
	Mathematics	6 cc
	Natural and Physical Sciences	7 cc
	History, Behavioral/Social, and Human Sciences	6 cc
	Computer Competence Requirement	1 cc
	Oral Communication Requirement	1 cc

Required Core Courses (21) hrs.

Grade of C or higher required.

BUL 3130	Legal Environment	3 cc
GEB 3213	Professional Communications	3 cc
MAN 3353	Management Theory	3 cc
MAN 3303	Theories of Leadership	3 cc
FIN 3400	Financial Management^	3 cc
MAN 4301	Human Resource Administration	3 cc
MAN 3240	Organizational Behavior	3 cc

Degree Requirements

Required Concentration Courses:

MAN 3350	Training & Development	3 cc
PAD 4393	Emergency Management & Disaster Planning	3 cc
PAD 3003	Introduction to Public Administration	3 cc
MAN 4720	Strategic Management	3 cc

MAN 4720: Required for all students in final semester of coursework

Select three of the electives listed below:

ACG 3024	Accounting for Non-Financial Majors	3 cc
ISM 4013	Management Information Systems	3 cc
MAN 3063	Professional Ethics and Values	3 cc
MAN 3583	Project Management	3 cc
MAN 4113	Managing Diversity	3 cc
MAN 4402	Employment Law & Regulations	3 cc
PAD 4874	Community Relations	3 cc

ACG 3024: Required for students not having Accounting I (ACG 2001) or Financial Accounting (ACG 2021) in Associate Degree Program

Note: Students with an AA degree must complete an additional 21 credits in courses at the lower division 1000 and 2000 level with a prefix of CCI, CJC, CJE, CJJ, CJL, EMS, HSC, HIM, CGS, or MSL in order to enroll in the Public Safety/Public Service concentration.