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PSAF 2045 - Project Management in Public Safety

Credits: 3
Hours/Week: Lecture NoneLab None
Course Description: This course is intended to prepare the student to manage projects of varying sizes and difficulty that they may encounter in the public safety discipline. This course will provide activities to simulate selecting or analyzing an organization for an issue, procedure, process, problem, or service that can be improved or developed. Then the student will be provided resources concerning how to design, develop, implement, evaluate, and make necessary improvements or modifications to the project. This course will also focus on presenting all the project stages and final project results in written, multi-media, and verbal formats.
MnTC Goals
None

Prerequisite(s): None
Corequisite(s): None
Recommendation: Computer literacy and word processing skills.

Major Content
  1. Action-planning process.
  2. Critical research.
  3. Information gathering.
  4. Introduction to organizational change and project management for public safety issues, challenges, and projects.
  5. Organizational change models.
  6. Overview of project management.
  7. Proposing and presenting projects to public safety leaders.
  8. Topic, issue, problem selection.

Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course students will be able to:

  1. Describe how to conduct a preliminary diagnostic scan related to public safety issues, challenges, and projects.
  2. Conduct a literature search.
  3. Describe the steps in project management.
  4. Identify organizational change models related to public safety.
  5. Select an organizational topic, issue, or problem for development and/or improvement.
  6. Examine how critical research is utilized during project planning
  7. Compare information gathering methods.
  8. Explain the steps in critical research.
  9. Compare methods of presenting a project to public safety organizational leaders.
  10. Describe the steps in proposing a project to public safety organizational leaders.
  11. List the four steps in the action-planning process as applied to public safety issues, challenges, and projects


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