Minors

A minor in another subject is recommended for a bachelor's degree in Public Safety and Security for all majors except Police Science. The minors available will depend on whether the student has access to the Panama City campus and/or the Tallahassee campus, or must take courses solely online. The minors presented below are either fully online or a hybrid in which one takes the knowledge portion online and attends a short, intensive laboratory at the Panama City campus. Since online courses are not as readily available as oncampus, students should contact the department of interest to verify when the desired courses will be offered.

In line with the teaching philosophy that a program in applied studies focuses on both theory and application of that theory, students are expected to construct a minor that supports that phhilosopy. It could be a simple as selecting both types of courses within another department. Or, it could be that courses are selected to provide a broad background knowledge in the topic of the minor. The experiential course then becomes a project integrating that knowledge into an application within the knowledge and skills attained in the major courses.

Unlike a major, a student does not need to be formally admitted to a minor, nor does the minor appear on the transcript. The Department and the Registrar do not have any forms to fill out or any way to register that a student intends to complete a minor in a particular subject. A student who has fulfilled the requirements for a minor in the discipline simply claims the minor when filing their "Intent to Graduate" form with the Registrar during the semester in which they plan to graduate.

For students not in the program, the minor in Public safety and Security requires four courses (12 credits), including CCJ 3024 The Criminal Justice System, plus any three of the core courses or three courses in a particular major.

Emergency Management from the School of Public Administration in College of Social Sciences
http://em.fsu.edu/certificate.cfm
The four course certificate program will serve as a minor.
Core Courses
 PAD 4391 Foundations of Emergency Management
 PAD 4393 Emergency Management Programs, Planning and Policy
Elective Courses
 PAD 4374 Intro to Terrorism*
 PAD 4375 Advanced Topics in Terrorism (pre-req: Intro to Terrorism*)
 PAD 4936 Public Health and Emergency Management
 PAD 4936 Emergency Management Leadership and Communications
 PAD 4936 Emergency Management Information Systems
 PAD 4936 International Comparative Emergency Management

Interdisciplinary Program in Social Sciences from College of Social Sciences
The minor is comprised of five courses taken from the following departments: interdisciplinary social science, anthropology, economics, geography, history, political science, sociology and urban & regional planning

These courses particularly will require coordination to ensure their availability.

Criminology from College of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Four courses will constitute a minor:
Core Courses
 CCJ 2020 Introduction to Criminal Justice

Elective Courses
Three courses with exclusion of: CCJ 4905, CCJ 4933, or CCJ 4938
Students planning on graduate school should take CCJ 4700, Introduction to Research Methods in Criminology

Communication from College of Communication and Information
Four courses from the following will constitute a minor but those in italics are not yet online:
 ADV 3008 Principles of Advertising
 ADV 3352 Mass Media Law
 ADV 3410 Hispanic Marketing Communication
 COM 3332 New Communication Technology
 COM 3930 Special Topics in Communication
 MMC 2000 Introduction to Mass Media
 PUR 3000 Introduction to Public Relations
 RTV 3001 Media Techniques
 SPC 3210 Contemporary Human Communication

Computer Science
Two options are available as described below; 12 hours each but different in rigor and the prerequisites required.