Transcript title

Public Safety College Succes

Credits

2

Grading mode

Standard letter grades

Total contact hours

20

Lecture hours

20

Course Description

Introduces students to the wide-ranging career fields that protect and serve our communities: Fire Service, Emergency Medical Services (EMS), and Criminal Justice. Students will examine what professionals in each discipline do, the values they share, and how teamwork and communication connect these careers. Students will develop essential college success skills, including time management, study habits, goal setting, and self-leadership. By the end of this exploratory course, students will have a clearer understanding of which public safety pathway aligns with their interests, strengths, and values, and a plan to succeed in college and beyond.

Course learning outcomes

1. Apply effective study behaviors and strategies that lead to academic and career success.
2. Recognize the process of exploring personal qualities and behaviors and the relationship to the public services occupations.
3. Explain the importance of working effectively with people of diverse backgrounds.
4. Develop strategies for maintaining balance, managing stress, improving personal health and wellness, and the impact they have on college success and public services as a career.
5. Identify the roles, responsibilities, and work environments of professionals in fire, EMS, and criminal justice.

Content outline

1. Course overview
2. Fire, emergency medical services (EMS), and criminal justice as a career
3. College culture and expectations in fire and EMS programs
4. Roles of Public Service personnel
5. Knowing yourself as a learner
6. Goal setting
7. Planning your academic pathways
8. Motivation
9. Managing your time and priorities
10. Reading, note taking, studying, memory and test taking
11. Thinking and communicating
12. Employing interdependence
13. Understanding civility and cultural competence
14. Gaining self-awareness
15. Developing emotional intelligence
16. Emotional intelligence as it pertains to a career in Public Service
17. Health and wellness
18. Health and wellness as it pertains to a career in Public Service
19. Final assignment and college success survey

Required materials

Textbook is required.