Bachelor of Arts in Public Safety Management

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Degree Requirements | GenEd Requirements | College Requirements | Major Requirements

The Public Safety Management major is designed to equip public safety officials with additional management and communication skills to address the needs of their urban constituents. It provides an in-depth study of community safety needs and problems, as well as analytical tools for addressing injustice for those living and working in urban settings.

Concentrations are offered in:

Emergency Preparedness/Homeland Security
Management/Criminal Justice

Degree Requirements

A minimum of 128 credit hours of academic work in which 36 credit hours must be upper division (300 and 400 level) courses.
Achievement of a grade point average of 2.00 or above
Completion of foreign language requirement, if necessary to remedy a high school deficiency
Completion of ASC 101, Introduction to University Life (incoming freshmen only)
Completion of the university, college and major-field requirements.

General Education Requirements

University and Levin College requirements will be met upon completion of the courses (or their transfer equivalents) listed below. Please meet with an advisor for an official determination of credit applicability.

Category	Description
Freshman Orientation	ASC 101: Intro to University Life (freshmen only)
Freshman English: 7 Sem. Hrs.	ENG 101: English I and UST 102: Professional Writing OR ENG 102: English II
Math & Logic: 6 Sem. Hrs.	Choose from University GenEd list
Arts/Humanities: 9 Sem. Hrs., two fields	Choose from University GenEd list. May include Non-Western Culture
Social Science: 9 Sem. Hrs., two fields	UST 200: Introduction to Urban Studies UST 202: Cleveland: Past, Present & Future UST 290: Urban Geography (Urban Studies and Environmental Studies majors only) ANT 102: Study of Culture
Natural Science: 8 Sem. Hrs., to include at least one (1) lab hour	GEO 100/101: Introductory Geology and Lab ENV 259: Natural History of Cleveland UST 289: Physical Geography Or other courses from University GenEd list.
Non-Western Culture: One course, minimum 3 Sem. Hrs.	Choose from University GenEd list. May double-count with Arts/Humanities
Western Culture: One course, minimum 3 Sem. Hrs.	UST 240: Democracy & the Bureaucratic City or PSC 111: American Government
Human Diversity/African-American Experience: Two courses, minimum 6 Sem. Hrs. total	UST 200: Introduction to Urban Studies (also counts as Social Science) UST 302: Contemporary Urban Issues (major field requirement)
Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC): Three courses	Courses taken to fulfill major field/college requirements will also fulfill WAC. Transfer students with 60-89 credits need two WAC courses; transfer students with 90 hours or more need one WAC course

College Requirements

Course No.	Sem. Hrs.	Title
UST 401	4	Computer Applications for Urban Research
UST 404	4	Urban Data Analysis
UST/PSM/USA 490	4-8	Internship (may be waived for prior professional experience)

Major Requirements: B.A. in Public Safety Management

Course No.	Sem. Hrs.	Title
PSM 302	4	Contemporary Urban Issues
PSM 433	4	Conflict Management
PSM 451	4	Public Safey Management
PSM 452	4	Management of Urban Organizations
PSM 453	4	Managing Urban Diversity

Specialized Sequences: Choose two courses from each group, A and B. Transfer credit may apply to some or all of group A and B.

Group A (Emergency Preparedness/Homeland Security): Choose 2
UST 410	4	Proposal Writing & Program Evaluation
UST 459	4	Budgetary Policy
UST 455	4	Gender & Leadership
UST 458	4	Urban POlicy
UST 473	4	Columbus Seminar
UST 474	4	Washington Seminar
COM 357	4	Principles of Public Relations
COM 366	4	Communication & Conflict
SWK 240	3	Administration of Justice

Group B (Management/Criminal Justice): Choose 2
SWK 342	4	Prisoners' Rights
SOC 340	4	Criminology
SOC 341	4	Juvenile Delinquency
SOC 342	4	Sociology of Law
SOC 344	4	US Criminal Justice System
SOC 345	4	Social Control
SOC 346	4	Corporate & Governmental Deviance
PSC 311	4	Civil Rights & Civil Liberties
PSC 321	4	Political Violence

Mailing Address
Cleveland State University
2121 Euclid Avenue, UR 335
Cleveland, OH 44115-2214

Campus Location
Urban Building, Room 335
1717 Euclid Avenue
Phone: 216.687.2135
urbanweb@csuohio.edu

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