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Dec 21, 2024
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2024-2025 Course Catalog
Emergency and Protective Services, Ph.D.
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The Doctor of Philosophy in Emergency and Protective Services is designed to provide students with the opportunity to conduct extensive and sustained original research in the field. This degree is for current professionals in the field who desire to elevate their skills, and critical decision making to the highest level, and contribute to the body of knowledge in Emergency and Protective Services. This program provides a compass for Emergency and Protective Services personnel to explore new opportunities and obligations in the rapidly changing environment at the local, state, national, and global levels.
All required courses are offered exclusively online in a 16-week asynchronous format.
Student Outcomes
Upon graduation, graduates will be able to
- Integrate and synthesize alternate, divergent, or contradictory perspectives or ideas fully within the field of emergency and protective services.
- Present scholarly work on emergency and protective services via appropriate communication channels.
- Demonstrate advanced knowledge and competencies in emergency and protective services.
- Analyze existing theories to draw data-supported conclusions in emergency and protective services.
- Execute a plan to complete a significant piece of scholarly research in emergency and protective services.
- Evaluate the legal, social, economic, environmental, and ethical impact of actions within emergency and protective services and demonstrate advanced knowledge and competency to Integrate the results in the leadership decisionmaking process.
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Course Requirements
Doctor of Philosophy 60 Credits
Notes
- This program may be completed with a minimum of 60 credit hours, but may require additional credit hours, depending on the time required to complete the dissertation/publication research. Students who are not prepared to defend after completion of the 60 credits will be required to enroll in RSC-899, a one-credit, eight-week continuation course.
- Students are required to be continuously enrolled/registered in the RSC-899 course until they successfully complete their dissertation defense/exegesis.
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