Associate of Science Degree in Occupational Safety & Health
associate of science degree in occupational safety & health
Description

The Associate of Science in Occupational Safety and Health degree program provides students with a flexible, relevant, and current curriculum that includes opportunities for students to demonstrate a depth and breadth of knowledge in safety and health theory and technology necessary to function at the safety and health technician level in industry.

THE AU’s occupational safety and health degree programs meet the educational requirements mandated by the Board of Certified Safety Professionals for the Associate Safety Professional designation (ASP) and the Certified Safety Professional designation (CSP).

Safety has been at the core of THE AU’s academic focus since the very beginning. Established in 1993,THE AU’s occupational safety and health degree programs have set the foundation for safety education. Recognized as an industry leader, THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY’s online A.S. in occupational safety and health is taught by experts in the safety field, many of whom are involved in advancing the industry on a national scale. This degree program reflects the relevant curriculum and instruction needed to explore a number of safety careers including health and safety manager, safety consultant, safety specialist and more. THE AU’s occupational safety and health degree programs meet the educational requirements mandated by the Board of Certified Safety Professionals for the Associate Safety Professional designation (ASP®).

Upon completion of the program, students should be able to do the following:

  • Explain basic workplace hazard analysis and control technologies and processes.
  • Identify laws, regulations, and standards that apply to the field of occupational safety and health.
  • Apply safety and health-related theory and technology to real-world situations.
  • Examine the role of the safety and health technician within the organization and industry.

 

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Curriculum

The Associate of Science in Occupational Safety and Health degree program provides students with a flexible, relevant, and current curriculum that includes opportunities for students to demonstrate a depth and breadth of knowledge in safety and health theory and technology necessary to function at the safety and health technician level in industry. THE AU’s occupational safety and health degree programs meet the educational requirements mandated by the Board of Certified Safety Professionals for the Associate Safety Professional designation (ASP) and the Certified Safety Professional designation (CSP).

Major Requirements| Total Required Semester Hours: 18

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Presents the fundamentals of business principles and practices. Business strategies emphasized are decision making and planning, teamwork, technology, and communication. Topics include analysis of the business environment, starting a new business, managing business and employees, marketing, accounting, and finance.

Outcomes

  1. Identify basic business concepts.
  2. Examine the different environments in which businesses operate, to include social, technological, economic, legal, and market.
  3. Explain management functions of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling.
  4. Identify the basic principles of marketing.
  5. Determine the function and role of human resources, including key aspects of human resource management.
  6. Discuss the importance of ethics and social responsibility in business.
  7. Evaluate concepts associated with entrepreneurship.
  8. Explain how outsourcing, offshoring, and foreign entities affect the operation of businesses in the United States.

PreRequisites

None

Textbook(s)

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Provides an introduction to business accounting. Topics include accounting concepts and principles, financial statements, internal control design, and accounting for partnerships. Students demonstrate knowledge and comprehension of the foundational theories and methodological tools utilized in accounting. Theoretical constructs are applied to solve real-world accounting applications.

Outcomes

  1. Examine the accounting cycle.
  2. Identify business transactions.
  3. Generate inventory systems and costing methods.
  4. Appraise the classes and transactions of liabilities.
  5. Formulate financial statements according to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).
  6. Analyze financial statements to inform decision makers.
  7. Evaluate internal accounting controls.
  8. Compare International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).

PreRequisites

None

Textbook(s)

Horngren’s accounting (Rev: 11th ed.)

Publisher: Pearson (2016)

Author: Miller-Nobles, T., Mattison, B., & Matsumura, E. M.

ISBN: 978-0-13-385678-1

Price: $267.61

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Provides an introduction to the functions of marketing. Discusses the influence of social, economic, ethical, legal, and technological forces on marketing activities, and marketing around the globe in a socially responsible way. Features real-world examples that show concepts in action and how marketers address today’s marketing challenges.

Outcomes

  1. Explain the concept of value proposition.
  2. Apply the market segmentation process to identify target markets.
  3. Use a target market to develop a marketing mix.
  4. Relate the importance of product positioning to brand strategy.
  5. Examine an organization’s pricing strategies.
  6. Discuss supply chain and logistics management in marketing.
  7. Explore factors that influence promotional strategies.

PreRequisites

None

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Bridges financial management with corporate finance. Students apply financial data for use in decision making by applying financial theory to problems faced by commercial enterprises. Introduces students to basic financial theory, financial forecasting, time value of money techniques, and risk analysis. Other areas covered involve analyzing financial statements with ratios, valuing securities, capital budgeting, and calculating weighted average cost of capital.

Outcomes

  1. Explain foundational finance theories.
  2. Analyze a forecast using relevant data.
  3. Apply time value of money techniques to various pricing (valuation) and budgeting problems.
  4. Apply measures of risk in financial analysis.
  5. Conduct preliminary financial statement and ratio analysis.
  6. Evaluate stock and bond valuation.
  7. Perform a capital budgeting analysis.
  8. Calculate weighted average cost of capital used in capital budgeting analysis.

PreRequisites

None

Textbook(s)

Financial management: Principles and applications (Rev: 12th ed.)

Publisher: Pearson (2014)

Author: Titman, S., Keown, A. J., & Martin, J. D.

ISBN: 978-0-13-342382-2

Price: $225.88

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Presents the importance of leadership in conjunction with various leadership traits, styles, and qualities. Enhances the importance of having a vision, the motivation to lead, social motives in the workplace, levels of morality and values, and the significance of empowerment for effective leadership. Topics include situational leadership, organizational climate, moral dilemmas, personal integrity, servant leadership, participative management, human relations, high-performance teams, diversity, cultural and interpersonal differences, workplace stress, performance management, and organizational change.

Outcomes

  1. Analyze the significance of the concept of leadership and the different leadership styles.
  2. Distinguish between the importance of vision, the motive to lead, and organizational climate.
  3. Explore various aspects of effective leadership, to include influence, follower motivation and effective followership.
  4. Illustrate the role of ethics and values in guiding organizational behavior.
  5. Articulate globalization and the resulting cultural implications of leadership, including unique considerations for leading multicultural teams.
  6. Analyze the role of leadership in decision-making processes that serve to establish an organizational climate oriented to meet business goals.
  7. Analyze methods used to effectively manage groups and teams.
  8. Evaluate different aspects of organizational change.

PreRequisites

None

* Disclaimer: Textbooks listed are based on the last open revision of the course. Prior revisions and future revisions may use different textbooks. To verify textbook information, view the course syllabus or contact the AU Bookstore at [email protected]

 

 
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Provides a management-oriented exploration of human resource management, structure, functional applications, and labor management relations. Focus is placed on managers and leaders within organizations and their responsibility to optimize performance and make decisions based on ethical criteria.

Outcomes

  1. Compare and contrast effective human resource management strategies.
  2. Estimate the impact of legal provisions on human resource management.
  3. Evaluate the components of workforce planning.
  4. Recommend basic human resource management (HRM) principles to develop a recruiting program for an organization.
  5. Relate different selection criteria and selection methods to organizational considerations.
  6. Appraise the importance of project management processes for launching training programs in organizations, to include planning, design, implementation, and evaluation.
  7. Analyze the roles and responsibilities of organizational leaders in the safety and health of employees.
  8. Critically evaluate the challenges to human resource management in a global corporation.
  9. Formulate a compensation strategy that aligns with an organization’s business strategy.

PreRequisites

None

Textbook(s)

Human resource management: Linking strategy to practice (Rev: 3rd ed.)

Publisher: Wiley (2015)

Author: Stewart, G. L., & Brown, K. G.

ISBN: 9781119185635

Price: $147.23

* Disclaimer: Textbooks listed are based on the last open revision of the course. Prior revisions and future revisions may use different textbooks. To verify textbook information, view the course syllabus or contact the AU Bookstore at [email protected]

 

 

GENERAL EDUCATION | Total Required Semester Hours: 21

English Composition
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Introduces the basic concepts and requirements of college-level writing. This course provides students with the opportunity to implement effective communication skills via the written word.

Outcomes

  1. Demonstrate proper use of Standard Written English and the conventions of APA documentation style.
  2. Employ the concepts of audience and perspective when approaching others in the writing situation.
  3. Construct different genres of writing.
  4. Effectively incorporate relevant academic sources containing both qualitative and quantitative data.
  5. Demonstrate critical reading skills that translate to improvement in writing practices, such as the crafting of effective sentences and paragraphs.
  6. Utilize pre-writing and planning strategies for the writing process.
  7. Assert argumentative thesis statements that are supported by structured essays that have an introduction, body, and conclusion.

Prerequisites

None

Textbook(s)

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Humanities and Fine Arts
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Provides an introduction to business accounting. Topics include accounting concepts and principles, financial statements, internal control design, and accounting for partnerships. Students demonstrate knowledge and comprehension of the foundational theories and methodological tools utilized in accounting. Theoretical constructs are applied to solve real-world accounting applications.

Outcomes

  1. Examine the accounting cycle.
  2. Identify business transactions.
  3. Generate inventory systems and costing methods.
  4. Appraise the classes and transactions of liabilities.
  5. Formulate financial statements according to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).
  6. Analyze financial statements to inform decision makers.
  7. Evaluate internal accounting controls.
  8. Compare International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).

PreRequisites

None

Textbook(s)

Horngren’s accounting (Rev: 11th ed.)

Publisher: Pearson (2016)

Author: Miller-Nobles, T., Mattison, B., & Matsumura, E. M.

ISBN: 978-0-13-385678-1

Price: $267.61

* Disclaimer: Textbooks listed are based on the last open revision of the course. Prior revisions and future revisions may use different textbooks. To verify textbook information, view the course syllabus or contact the AU Bookstore at [email protected]

 

 

Mathematics
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Presents a variety of fundamental algebraic topics including, linear and quadratic equations, equations of lines, polynomials, rational expressions, systems of equations, and radical expressions. Students entering this course should be proficient in pre-algebra concepts.

Outcomes

  1. Solve algebraic functions.

  2. Apply algebraic principles to solve inequalities.

  3. Utilize algebraic principles to graph systems to include inequalities.

  4. Graph unique functions.

  5. Perform mathematical computation on complex numbers.

  6. Solve linear systems with two variables to include inequalities.

Prerequisites

None

Textbook(s)

College algebra essentials (Rev: 5th ed.)

Publisher: Pearson (2018)
Author: Blitzer, R. F.
ISBN: 9780134469294
Price: $177.06

* Disclaimer: Textbooks listed are based on the last open revision of the course. Prior revisions and future revisions may use different textbooks. To verify textbook information, view the course syllabus or contact the AU Bookstore at [email protected]

 

 

Natural Science
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BIO 1100 – Non-Majors Biology

Description

Explores the principles of biology, including the scientific method, cell theory, cellular process, theories of heredity, evolutionary theory, ecology, human physiology, and a survey of the diversity of organisms.

Outcomes

 

  1. Define the basic concepts of biological sciences.

  2. Apply the scientific method.

  3. Explain nutrition in terms of micronutrients and macronutrients.

  4. Explain Mendel’s approach to studying genetics.

  5. Interpret Darwin’s theory of evolution to include natural selection and common descent.

  6. Describe human anatomical systems to include their disease states.

  7. Discuss relationships between living organisms and nonliving factors in ecosystems.

  8. Interpret biological data.

 

PreRequisites

None

Textbook(s)

Biology: Science for life with physiology (Rev: 6th ed.)

Publisher: Pearson (2019)

Author: Belk, C., & Maier, V. B.

ISBN: 9780134555430

Price: $126.16

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Introduces basic ecological concepts and their relevance to human impacts on natural systems. Students explore ecosystem structure and function, population ecology, and current environmental issues related to sustainability and the use of natural resources.

Outcomes

  1. Explain the importance of ecological concepts in everyday life.

  2. Describe the various factors that affect population growth regulation.

  3. Identify the various ways in which organisms interact with their environment.

  4. Summarize the importance of biodiversity within the environment.

  5. Detail the global exchange of nutrients through biogeochemical cycles.

  6. Describe the various factors that affect the evolution of ecological systems.

  7. Identify ways in which ecology can be used to solve environmental issues.

Prerequisites

None

Textbook(s)

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Social and Behavioral Science
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Examines government and politics in America by focusing on the origins, entities, processes, and functions of our political system and the influential role of interest groups and the media.

Outcomes

  1. Summarize the origins of American political thought.

  2. Identify the distinctive attributes of the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

  3. Describe the three branches of government.

  4. Explain how the U.S. government functions at the federal, state, and local levels.

  5. Identify the role of political parties in the United States political system.

  6. Discuss how policies affect change.

  7. Identify the impact of media on public opinion and politics.

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None

Textbook(s)

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Electives | Total Required Semester Hours: 21

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A study of trade and international economics. Considers comparative advantage, production factors, and how growth is influenced by trade and various alternative trade theories. Analysis of trade restrictions and the effect of trade on environment and political policies.

Objectives

  1. Distinguish between international and domestic economic issues.
  2. Explain why seven themes recur in international economics and discuss their significance.
  3. Explain how the Ricardian model, the most basic model of international trade, works and how it illustrates the principle of comparative advantage.
  4. Explain how differences in resources can cause international trade.
  5. Discuss why trade often creates losers as well as winners.
  6. Explain the effects of tariffs and subsidies on trade patterns and the welfare of trading nations and on the distribution of income within countries.
  7. Detail the “dumping” arguments used by domestic industries as a basis for protectionism and explain the relationship between dumping and price discrimination.
  8. Discuss the role of external economies and knowledge spillovers in shaping comparative advantage and international trade patterns.
  9. Discuss the causes, as well as the winners and losers, from migration and labor mobility between nations.
  10. Articulate arguments for free trade that go beyond the conventional gains from trade.
  11. Evaluate national welfare arguments against free trade.
  12. Summarize the basic ideas behind “economic dualism” and its relationship to international trade
  13. Discuss the recent economic history of the East Asian countries, such as Taiwan and South Korea, and detail the relationship between their rapid economic growth and participation in international trade.
  14. Summarize the more sophisticated arguments for interventionist trade policy, especially those related to externalities and economies of scale.

PreRequisites

None

Textbook(s)

International economics: Theory and policy (Rev: 9th ed.)

Publisher: Prentice Hall (2013)
Author: Krugman, P., Obstfeld, M., & Melitz, M.
ISBN: 978-0-13-214665-4
Price: $172.58

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A study of economics in the international context of foreign exchange and currency markets and their impact on international economics. The interrelationship of exchange rates and economics factors are also discussed.

Objectives

  1. Examine the concept of the current account balance.
  2. Employ the current account balance to extend national income accounting to open economies.
  3. Apply national income accounting to the interaction of saving, investment, and net exports.
  4. Evaluate and discuss the national money markets in which interest rates are determined.
  5. Compare how monetary policy and interest rates feed into the foreign exchange market.
  6. Discuss the concept of the real exchange rate.
  7. Analyze the factors that affect real exchange rates and relative currency prices in the long run.
  8. Explain the role of the real exchange rate in determining the aggregate demand for a country’s output.
  9. Demonstrate causes and effects of balance of payments crises.
  10. Evaluate how alternative multilateral systems for pegging exchange rates work.
  11. Explain how the goals of internal and external balance motivate economic policy makers in open economies.
  12. Summarize how the monetary and fiscal policies of a large country such as the United States are transmitted abroad.
  13. Analyze the economic function of international portfolio diversification.
  14. Explain factors leading to the explosive recent growth of international financial markets.
  15. Analyze problems in the regulation and supervision of international banks and nonbank financial institutions.

PreRequisites

  1. MBA 6081

Textbook(s)

International financial management (Rev: 2nd ed.)

Publisher: Prentice Hall (2012)
Author: Bekaert, G., & Hodrick, R.
ISBN: 978-0-13-216276-0
Price: $182.85

* Disclaimer: Textbooks listed are based on the last open revision of the course. Prior revisions and future revisions may use different textbooks. To verify textbook information, view the course syllabus or contact the AU Bookstore at [email protected]

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A comprehensive study of the essential components needed in developing an effective safety management system. Examines the cultural aspects of integrating total safety management into all levels of an operation.

Objectives

  1. Develop effective safety management policy statements, goals, and objectives.
  2. Evaluate how accountability affects performance management in safety management programs.
  3. Analyze the importance of clarity in assigning safety-related job tasks.
  4. Examine the components of an effective hazard prevention and control system.
  5. Apply risk management principles to reduce the impact of workplace hazards.
  6. Relate continuous improvement principles to safety management concepts.
  7. Examine management tools necessary to implement effective safety management systems.

PreRequisites

  1. BOS 3001

Textbook(s)

Advanced safety management: Focusing on Z10 and serious injury prevention (Rev: 2nd ed.)

Publisher: Wiley (2014)
Author: Manuele, F. A.
ISBN: 9781118645680
Price: $80.30

* Disclaimer: Textbooks listed are based on the last open revision of the course. Prior revisions and future revisions may use different textbooks. To verify textbook information, view the course syllabus or contact the AU Bookstore at [email protected]

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A review of the principles and practices of ergonomics as it applies to the industrial environment. Demonstrates how to collect data on users and operators and how to convert the data to good workplace design.

Objectives

  1. Describe characteristics of ergonomically designed workstations.
  2. Examine human factors related to design criteria.
  3. Discuss body-centered design for mitigating common workplace stressors.
  4. Explain prescribed practices for training and instruction related to workplace ergonomics.
  5. Examine key management approaches for addressing workplace ergonomics issues.
  6. Perform ergonomics-related hazard assessments.
  7. Recommend ergonomically sound control strategies for workplace situations.
  8. Summarize ergonomics-related regulatory efforts and standards.

PreRequisites

  1. PHS 1110
  2. BIO 1100

Textbook(s)

Occupational ergonomics: A practical approach

Publisher: Wiley (2016)
Author: Stack, T., Ostrom, L. T., & Wilhelmsen, C. A.
ISBN: 9781118814215
Price: $97.50

* Disclaimer: Textbooks listed are based on the last open revision of the course. Prior revisions and future revisions may use different textbooks. To verify textbook information, view the course syllabus or contact the AU Bookstore at [email protected]

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Explores various training requirements specified by safety and health standard-setting organizations. This course also includes consideration of training theory and training management techniques to include an evaluation of best practices.

Outcomes

  1. Explain safety and health training requirements specified by standard setting organizations.
  2. Examine safety and health training theories and their applications.
  3. Develop strategies for communicating safety and health training in the workplace.
  4. Discuss management’s role in safety and health training.
  5. Examine methods for assessing safety and health training performance.
  6. Evaluate best practices in safety and health training.
  7. Discuss means of overcoming cultural and language barriers to provide effective training to workers.

PreRequisites

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Provides fundamental concepts of classical physics with minimized computation in a conceptual and practical manner intended for non-science major students. Main topics covered are Newtonian mechanics, properties of matter and energy, and basic ideas of thermodynamics.

Outcomes

  1. Describe standard units of measurement to include components of a valid measurement.

  2. Illustrate the scientific method within everyday situations.

  3. Explain Newton’s laws of motion at work in common phenomena.

  4. Explain the concepts and applications of momentum, work, mechanical energy, and general relativity.

  5. Identify the building blocks of matter to include their influence on physical properties.

  6. Describe thermodynamic concepts and their applications.

Prerequisites

None

Textbook(s)

Conceptual physics (Rev: 12th ed.)

Publisher: Pearson (2015)
Author: Hewitt, P. G.
ISBN: 978-0-321-90910-7
Price: $90.71

* Disclaimer: Textbooks listed are based on the last open revision of the course. Prior revisions and future revisions may use different textbooks. To verify textbook information, view the course syllabus or contact the AU Bookstore at [email protected]