BS in Technical Management - Occupational Safety and Health
- OVERVIEW
- REQUIREMENTS
Overview
Creating and maintaining a safe work environment and protecting workers from hazards has become a critical issue in nearly every industry. The Occupational Safety and Health Specialty was developed to prepare students for supervisory or management positions relating to occupational safety and health in environmental compliance, ergonomics, industrial hygiene and toxicology, construction, fire protection, and systems design.
This program is geared toward students who are seeking new opportunities in the public or private sector such as service or manufacturing industries, local, state, or federal agencies, and the military.
To earn the Technical Management degree with an Occupational Safety & Health Specialization, degree-seeking students must complete the program support, business core, and management electives, as listed below, as well as the specified upper-level open elective requirements for this specialization.
Bachelor of Science Degree Requirements
| Course / Title | Credits |
|---|---|
| SFTY 311 Fundamentals of Occupational Safety and Health | 3 |
| SFTY 315 Environmental Compliance and Safety | 3 |
| SFTY 321 Ergonomics | 3 |
| SFTY 355 Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology | 3 |
| SFTY 360 Construction Safety | 3 |
| SFTY 365 Fire Protection | 3 |
| SFTY 410 Design of Engineering Hazard Controls -OR- | |
| SFTY 420 Systems Design for Fire and Life Safety | 3 |
| Occupational Safety And Health Specialty | 21 |
| Course / Title | Credits |
|---|---|
| Embry-Riddle courses in the general education categories of Communication Theory and Skills, and Humanities and Social Sciences may be chosen from those listed above, assuming prerequisite requirements are met. Courses from other institutions are acceptable if they fall into those broad categories and are at the level specified. | |
| Communication Theory and Skills: | |
| ENGL 123 English Composition | 3 |
| Speech/English | 6 |
| Humanities/Social Sciences*: | |
| Humanities lower or upper-level elective | 3 |
| Social Science lower or upper-level elective History/Government/Social Science/Psychology |
3 |
| *For BS, one course must be an upper-level Humanities or Social Science elective. | |
| Physical and Life Science lower-level elective: | |
| Physics/Biology/Meteorology | 6 |
| Mathematics: | |
| MATH 111 & MATH 112 -OR- | |
| MATH 140 & MATH 142, MATH 320* | 6 |
| *MATH 320 may be substituted as the second course in the series. | |
| Computer Science: | |
| CSCI 109 Introduction to Computers and Applications | 3 |
| Economics: | |
| ECON 210 Microeconomics | 3 |
| ECON 211 Macroeconomics | 3 |
| Total Credits | 36 |
| Course / Title | Credits |
|---|---|
| AMGT 202 Aeronautical Science for Management | 3 |
| MATH 211 Statistics with Aviation Applications -OR- | |
| MATH 222 Business Statistics | 3 |
| MGMT 201 Principles of Management | 3 |
| MGMT 210 Financial Accounting | 3 |
| MGMT 221 Advanced Computer Based Systems | 3 |
| Total Credits | 15 |
| Course / Title | Credits |
|---|---|
| MGMT 311 Marketing | 3 |
| MGMT 312 Managerial Accounting | 3 |
| MGMT 314 Human Resource Management | 3 |
| MGMT 317 Organizational Behavior | 3 |
| MGMT 320 Business Information Systems | 3 |
| MGMT 325 Social Responsibility and Ethics in Management | 3 |
| MGMT 335 International Business | 3 |
| MGMT 371 Leadership | 3 |
| MGMT 390 Business Law | 3 |
| MGMT 436 Strategic Management | 3 |
| Total Credits | 30 |
| Course / Title | Credits |
|---|---|
| Safety: | |
| SFTY 341 Occupational Safety and Health Program Management | 3 |
| SFTY 440 System Safety Management | 3 |
| SFTY 450 Loss Control and Insurance | 3 |
| SFTY 470 Advanced Occupational Safety and Health Technology | 3 |
| Total Credits | 12 |
| Course / Title | Credits |
|---|---|
| Open Electives | 6 |
| Total Degree Requirements | 120 |
