First Responder Executive Leadership
First Responder Executive Leadership
First Responder Executive Leadership COGS
Students currently working in disaster preparedness or emergency management can enroll in the Certificate of Graduate Study (COGS) in First Responder Executive Leadership to attain the skills in preparing for, mitigating, and recovering from the next large scale disaster. Students learn how fiscal policy, budgeting, legal factors, and administrative procedure shape plans to minimize the impact of the next natural, technological, or terrorism-related event. Talk to your advisor about how the COGS in First Responder Executive Leadership can help you tailor-make your education to reach your clearly defined goals.
Below you will find a list of Master of Professional Studies (MPS) core courses, which are required for all MPS students, and a list of First Responder Executive Leadership COGS courses. Please note, students have the option to just earn the COGS without doing the MPS core courses.
Professional Studies Core Courses (required for all MPS students)
Professional Studies Seminar
This course acquaints students with the Master of Professional Studies Degree program. The course allows students to engage in assessments that evaluate their knowledge, skills, abilities, and interests as they develop and/or refine college and career goals. Additionally, students will develop key communication skills for the 21st century workplace. Students also explore their own role and ethical considerations within a workplace.
Foundations of Agile Management
The course teaches principles and values of Agile frameworks and helps students apply Agile practices and techniques to real world project management. Moreover, the course is designed to demonstrate the value of project management that fosters continuous organizational development where project management is at the center of organizational change.
Foundations of Data Analytics and Reporting
This course will introduce business analytical models and tools used to interpret data and their implications to management decision making. The data analysis will enable students to make data driven decisions to optimize the business process and enhance organizational efficiency. Moreover, the use of data in the creation of enhanced business documents and oral presentations will be a key component of the course.
Project Management and Team Building
This course is designed to introduce project management principles and help organizational leaders strategically build teams to achieve goals related to organizational output. The course will cover core elements of project management including project scope, time and cost management, quality management, human resource considerations, communications, risk management, and procurement management. Moreover, the course examines leadership styles and the analysis of group dynamics from an interdisciplinary perspective including: psychology, sociology, organizational management, and cultural anthropology.
Action Study: Master of Professional Studies
This course is designed to serve as the capstone course for the Master of Professional Studies Program. The goal of the course is for students to be able to articulate, define, research and analyze a problem or challenge in their current profession or field and integrate theory, data, and practical applications to address and develop a solution to the issue. More specifically, the course will incorporate an "action study" in which the student will use their academic experiences and knowledge to actively address the issue during the course, as part of an action-based plan that will be developed in the context of an internship experience with support from a faculty member. The capstone course serves as the final course in the Master of Professional Studies.
First Responder Executive Leadership Courses
Disaster Policy & Legal Environment in Emergency Management
This course examines the complex framework of political and social policy issues related to addressing natural, technological and terrorism disasters. Federal and state-related policies and legal considerations at the mitigation, preparation, response, and recovery stages of the disaster cycle will be emphasized.
Public Budgeting and Finance for Emergency Managers
This course focuses on government fiscal management duties as they relate to emergency management and emergency services administration: the area generally known as public finance or fiscal administration, including public economies and policy, budgeting, revenue policy and taxation, financial management, and politics. The key to this course will be the fiscal administration of disasters and crisis at every phase of the disaster cycle, from planning to recovery. Students are exposed to departmental budgeting, revenue structures and tax administration, financial risk management, government and corporate grants and grants administration.
Administrative Public Policy and Law for Public Managers
This course is designed to help public leaders, public managers, and members of the private sector examine administrative agencies, problems of administrative procedure, and the methods and extent of judicial control over administrative action. The goal of this course is to be able to extract rules and policy from cases, statutes, and administrative regulations. Also to analyze, interpret and understand rules and statutes by applying rules and policy to facts. More specifically, for the field of public management, the course highlights how decisions and actions taken by government agencies are monitored to hold agencies accountable.