Oct 08, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Integrated Studies, Public Safety Concentration, B.S.


University Studies 
615-494-7714
Dianna Rust, program coordinator
Dianna.Rust@mtsu.edu

The interdisciplinary Public Safety concentration will provide an adult degree completion program to public safety professionals and will provide them with the opportunity to develop important knowledge and skills in crisis response, diversity, communication, and leadership.

Academic Map


Following is a printable, suggested four-year schedule of courses:

Integrated Studies, Public Safety, B.S., Academic Map  

Degree Requirements


True Blue Core (TBC)    41 hours
Major Requirements    31 hours
Electives    48 hours
TOTAL    120 hours

True Blue Core (41 hours)


True Blue Core (TBC)  requirements (shown in curricular listings below) include courses in the Foundational Skills areas of Written Communication (WC), Information Literacy (Info Lit), Non-Written Communication (NWC), and Quantitative Literacy (Quant Lit). Knowledge Domains include Human Society and Social Relationships (HSSR), Scientific Literacy (Sci Lit), Creativity and Cultural Expression (CCE), and History and Civic Learning (HCL), which include Discovery and Explorations categories. Students must choose at least one course from each Discovery category.

Major Requirements (31 hours)


Curriculum: Integrated Studies, Public Safety


Freshman Fall


  • 3 credit hours OR
  • Elective 3 credit hours
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  • Written Communication 3 credit hours
  • Human Society and Social Relationships 3 credit hours
  • Quantitative Literacy 3 credit hours
  • Elective 3 credit hours

Subtotal: 15 Hours


Freshman Spring


  • Information Literacy 3 credit hours
  • Non-Written Communication 3 credit hours
  • Scientific Literacy 4 credit hours
  • Elective 3 credit hours
  • Creativity and Cultural Expression 3 credit hours

Subtotal: 16 Hours


Sophomore Fall


  • 3 credit hours
  • Creativity and Cultural Expression 3 credit hours
  • History and Civic Learning 3 credit hours
  • Creativity and Cultural Expression Literature 3 credit hours
  • Elective 3 credit hours

Subtotal: 15 Hours


Sophomore Spring


Subtotal: 16 Hours


Subtotal: 15 Hours


Junior Spring


  • Directed electives 12 credit hours
  • Upper-division elective 3 credit hours

Subtotal: 15 Hours


Senior Fall


  • Upper-division electives/minor 12 credit hours
  • Directed elective 3 credit hours

Subtotal: 15 Hours


Senior Spring


Subtotal: 13 Hours