2404 - Emergency Administration and Management (A.S.)

The mission of the Emergency Administration and Management Associate in Science degree is to provide degree seeking students general and advanced education background and an understanding of homeland security, including emergency management, disaster planning, counter-terrorism, bio-defense, and human and technical intelligence. The goal of the program is to graduate students to become front line defenders of national security, first responders for when disaster strikes, and professionals with the skills needed to protect critical infrastructures needed in the Northeast Florida region.

The purpose of this program is to prepare students for employment in the field of emergency services. Graduates of the program may obtain professional positions such as emergency managers, emergency management planners, emergency operations coordinators, environment compliance planners, and emergency management specialists at state, local, federal, and international governments, business and industry, military installations, and health care facilities.

The Emergency Administration and Management program offers a sequence of courses that provides coherent and rigorous content aligned with challenging academic standards and relevant technical knowledge and skills needed to prepare for further education and careers in the government and public administration career cluster. The program provides technical skill proficiency and includes competency-based applied learning that contributes to the academic knowledge, higher-order reasoning, and problem-solving skills, work attitudes, general employability skills, technical skills, and occupation-specific skills, and knowledge of all aspects of the government and public administration career cluster.

emergencyadmin@fscj.edu.