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  • POL 245: International Politics

    3.00 Credits
    Montgomery County Community College

    This course focuses on the study of contemporary relations between states and other international actors. It places special emphasis on the analysis of foreign policy decision-making, diplomatic practices, international systems, international law and organizations, alliance behavior, conflict and conflict resolution as well as current international problems.
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  • POL 250: Terrorism & Counter-Terrorism

    3.00 Credits
    Montgomery County Community College

    Terrorism in the 21st century is a global phenomenon. This course is designed to provide a comprehensive and interdisciplinary survey of the history, theory, and modern-day political manifestations of terrorism and counter-terrorism. Terrorism will be evaluated in terms of its underlying cultural, economic, political, and psychological root causes. Effective counteraction and profiling requires empathetic explorations and analyses by students into causes and mind-sets. Counter-terrorism strategies and tactics will also be examined specifically in light of the legal and procedural safeguards that are fundamental to the maintenance of liberal democratic social and political values.
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  • PSA 100: Introduction to Public Safety Administration

    3.00 Credits
    Montgomery County Community College

    This course will introduce the students to the critical issues related to public safety administration in both private and public sector applications. The course provides a conceptual overview of the laws, programs, agencies, and institutions involved in the provision of the day-to-day and long-term administration of public safety programs. It will analyze the planning process as a means to anticipate, prevent, prepare for, respond to, and recover from any incident. By analyzing the planning process in its constituent parts, such as hazard analysis, resource assessment, plan development, coordination with others, and plan implementation, training, and education, students will gain an understanding of the requirements for public safety administration. Students will work in an interactive program to establish a planning process for companies or municipalities, and they will learn from actual case studies, and will sharpen their understanding of the key components of public safety administration and relevant skills in specific public safety disciplines.
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  • PSA 101: Public Safety Technology

    3.00 Credits
    Montgomery County Community College

    This course will focus on current themes in public safety technology, including such topics as Computer Aided Dispatch, basic ideas of mobile radio technology, mobile data/mobile computer capabilities and functionality, public safety applications for Global Positioning technology, as well as emerging trends that will appear in the Public Safety arena in the next 3 to 5 years. An overview of standards governing communications systems, dispatchers, and other areas of public safety technology will also be covered. Topics will be covered at a non-technical level to provide the student with an overview and understanding of the technology.
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  • PSA 102: Fire Department Organization and Administration

    3.00 Credits
    Montgomery County Community College

    This course will provide an introduction to the history and philosophy of fire protection, the basic principles and concepts of organizational structure, the construction of new fire facilities and training. Topics that will be covered include the distribution of equipment and personnel, personnel management, communications, community and public relations, and a review of fire losses. There will also be a discussion of the relationship between fire prevention and fire control and extinguishment, budgeting, the use of systems analysis and operations research, reports and their uses.
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  • PSA 200: Public Safety Incident Management

    3.00 Credits
    Montgomery County Community College

    This course is designed to provide the student with an overview of the incident command and unified command structure and their operations. Students will examine incident management in various public safety circumstances. After gaining an understanding of incident management in various public safety situations, students will focus on the roles and responsibilities of rescue leaders as those roles relate to incident command and the unified command structure.
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  • PSA 201: Leadership and Influence in Public Safety

    3.00 Credits
    Montgomery County Community College

    This course is intended to be a capstone course for public safety administration students. This course provides students with an overview of the theories and concepts of leadership development, as well as higher-order leadership skills and competencies for effective leadership in public safety administration. The course will examine leadership from a 'core values' approach, systems (chain of command) approach, a functional approach, a process approach, and a skills approach (motivation, supervision and communications). Topics include leadership, leadership theories and styles, leadership roles, leadership performance, individual leadership skills and plans, effective leadership, and future trends.
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  • PSY 101: Introduction to Psychology

    3.00 Credits
    Montgomery County Community College

    An examination of the vocabulary, theories and research methods common to the various branches of the science of psychology. The course surveys psychology from its early history to important new advances in brain research. The principles of psychology are applied to learning, to mental health, and to everyday life.
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  • PSY 136: Personality

    3.00 Credits
    Montgomery County Community College

    A comparison of major approaches to the study of the development and structure of normal personality. Topics include the applications of psychological research to understanding and promoting mental health and human resilience. Consideration is given to the role of healthy personality in managing frustration, conflict, adjusting to predictable and unpredictable life changes, and achieving maximum well-being.
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  • PSY 137: Introduction to Organizational Psychology

    3.00 Credits
    Montgomery County Community College

    Explores the application of psychological theory and research to understanding and improving work environments in both for profit and non-profit organizations. Students will gain skills through experiential learning of topics including enhancing motivation, performance evaluation, job satisfaction, communication, conflict resolution, achievement and leadership.
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