MCCCD Program Description

Major: 3018 Catalog Year: 2023-2024 Effective Term: 2017 Fall Last Admit Term: 2021 Spring Award: AAS Total Credits: 64 CIP Code: 43.9999	Primary College: Initiating College: Chandler-Gilbert Community College Program Availability: Not Found Program Availability: Shared (Mor) Program Availability: Field of Interest: Not Found Instructional Council: Emergency Medical Technology/Fire Science (54) GPA: 2.00
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Description: The curriculum of the Associate in Applied Science (AAS) in Emergency Management is designed to provide students with knowledge and skills required to conduct a comprehensive emergency management program. The program is designed to prepare students to manage fire department operations, hazardous materials incidents, tactics, strategy, and safety of firefighting activities, and customer service in the public sector. These are skills important for positions such as Emergency Manager, Emergency Management Planner, Emergency Operations Coordinator, Environmental Compliance Planner, and Emergency Management Specialist, as well as for work in state, local, federal, and international governments, business and industry, military installations, and health care facilities.

Required Courses

AJS101 Introduction to Criminal Justice 3
AJS/FSC139 Emergency Response to Terrorism 3
AJS/FSC146 Disaster Recovery Operations 3
AJS/FSC147 Emergency Preparedness 3
AJS/FSC148 Fundamentals of Emergency Management 3
AJS/FSC149 Hazard Mitigation 3
FSC105 Hazardous Materials/First Responder 3
FSC224 Incident Command Systems 3

Credits: 24

Restricted Electives
AJS195 International and Domestic Terrorism 3 AJS225 Criminology 3 AJS270 Community Relations 3 AJS275 Criminal Investigation I 3 FSC216 Fundamental of Flammable Hazardous Materials 3 FSC217 Dangerous and Explosive Hazardous Materials 3 AJS++++ Any Administration of Justice Studies course FSC++++ Any Fire Science Technology course	Credits: 15-18

General Electives
	Credits:

General Education Requirements

General Education Requirement	Credits: 25-27

General Education Core	Credits: 15-17

First-Year Composition	Credits: 6
ENG101 First-Year Composition (3) AND ENG102 First-Year Composition (3)

Oral Communication	Credits: 3
Any approved general education course in the Oral Communication area

Critical Reading	Credits: 3
Any approved general education course in the Critical Reading area

Mathematics	Credits: 3-5
MAT102 Mathematical Concepts/Applications or satisfactory completion of higher level mathematics course.

General Education Distribution	Credits: 10

Humanities, Arts and Design	Credits: 3
AJS123 Ethics and the Administration of Justice

Social-Behavioral Sciences	Credits: 3
AJS/EMT/FSC/SWU258 Victimology and Crisis Management

Natural Sciences	Credits: 4
Any approved general education course in the Natural Sciences area

Program Competencies
1. Identify and describe the major components of the criminal justice process. (AJS101) 2. Define terrorism, and describe the role of first responders in emergency response plans, resource development, incident management systems, patient assessment, and communication with the media. (AJS/FSC139) 3. Describe disaster recovery operations including planning considerations, special populations issues and recovery responsibilities. (AJS/FSC146) 4. Explain emergency planning concepts and implementation strategies for response and prevention. (AJS/FSC147) 5. Describe the components of an integrated emergency management system, including the role of the managers and key organizations and explain historical events that impacted on its development and processes for assessing threat. (AJS/FSC148) 6. Identify and describe hazard mitigation strategies, including coordinated community responses and resources. (AJS/FSC149) 7. Describe the chemical processes utilized in dealing with hazardous materials incidence. (FSC105) 8. Recognize and identify the chemical and physical properties of hazardous materials. (FSC105) 9. Describe methods for managing Emergency incidents including command, control, and coordination of response. (FSC224)
+ indicates course has prerequisites and/or corequisites. ++ indicates that any suffixed course may be selected. MCCCD Governing Board Approval Date: 6-28-05

All information published is subject to change without notice. Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of information presented, but based on the dynamic nature of the curricular process, course and program information is subject to change in order to reflect the most current information available.