Required Core Modules
Credits
| BES | 301-3 | OH&S Programs Development and Organization | 1 |
| Provides broad overview of current practices and terminology in Occupational Health & Safety, including factors that promote a safety culture, using driving forces as leverage to implement a better safety program, legislation regarding OH&S training, safety audits, and components of Safety Management System. | |||
| BES | 325-1 | Ethics for Emergency Services Managers | 1 |
| Provides overview of basic ethics concepts, including students’ personal view of ethics and ethical dilemmas related to their area of emergency services. Discuss interpretation of four ethical principles and other ethical principles in relation to work and personal life. Prerequisites: BES 344-1, BES 355-1, BES 370-2 and BES 370-3. | |||
| BES | 330-1 | Statistics for Administrators | 1 |
| Provides overview of basic statistical concepts, methods used for tabular or graphic presentation of data, and numerical data interpretation for decision-making. Learn introductory approaches/techniques in probability. | |||
| BES | 340-1 | Accounting Principles | 1 |
| Introduction to some basic concepts in accounting, and applies concepts and principles required to prepare financial statements. Topics include goals and uses of accounting, general accounting principles, function of accounting equation, and preparation of financial statements. | |||
| BES | 340-2 | Financial Statement Analysis | 1 |
| Complete accounting cycle by covering topics including preparation of financial statements, completion of closing process, use of internal control, examination of tools of financial statement analysis. Introduces application of analytical tools to examine financial statements and related data for making informed business decisions. Prerequisite: BES 340-1. | |||
| BES | 340-3 | Capital Budgeting | 2 |
| Introduction to basic concepts and methods related to format and calculation of cash flow statements. Topics covered include: expenditure allocation, authorization, and monitoring process. Discuss capital budgeting, particularly methods of analyzing alternative long-term investments and solving capital budgeting problems by applying relevant methods and techniques. Prerequisites: BES 340-1 and BES 340-2. | |||
| BES | 341-1 | Interpersonal Communications* | 1 |
| Re-introduces principles, theories, models and terminology of communication process. Topics include discerning communication styles of others and factors that influence this perception. Cover causes of workplace conflict, strategies and techniques to employ for improved communication conflict resolution. | |||
| BES | 341-2 | Crisis Communications* | 2 |
| Focus on specific type of workplace communication - crisis communications. Identify principles that need to be in place to ensure stakeholders have accurate information, and public trust is maintained, and provides information used in development of crisis communications plan (CCP). Prerequisite: BES 341-1. | |||
| BES | 344-1 | Human Resource Management for Emergency Services* | 1 |
| Introduction to relationship between human resources and strategic management of an organization. Topics include, fundamental Human Resource Management techniques, management development approaches, and performance strategies. Provides opportunity to develop sensitivity to organizational life and effective personnel decision-making skills at managerial level. | |||
| BES | 355-1 | Emergency Services Management | 1 |
| Looks at management competencies and skills required in organizational settings, in terms of various theories and models, and how such skills can be applied to improve management effectiveness. Case studies and exercises drawn from real life used to illustrate principles. Examine functions of management within organizations by reflecting on management competencies, use of reward systems in the motivation of staff behaviour, and change management. Examine management competencies by ranking them in relation to the relevance and applicability to workplace management of specific sectors. Analyze environment within which organizations operate and explore the implementation of change, and conduct case study drawn from real life. | |||
| BES | 355-2 | Emergency Services Administration Planning & Policy* | 1 |
| Introduces processes required to efficiently and effectively develop an action plan to deal with issues in emergency services administration planning and policy. Network in groups to plan, discuss, review, and complete final project and share experience in networking and collaborative working experience. Prerequisites: BES 344-1, BES 355-1, BES 370-2 and BES 370-3. | |||
| BES | 356-1 | Strategic Business Planning | 2 |
| Provides overview of business planning function, beginning with objectives in a strategic business plan. Analyze organization’s strengths and limitations in providing services and trends their organizations may face and identify corresponding strategies and develop strategic business plan. Prerequisites: BES 340-1, BES 340-2 and BES 340-3. | |||
| BES | 356-2 | Resource Management | 1 |
| Overview of physical resource management with emphasis on inventories management. Topics include process, techniques and issues in inventories management in relation to specific areas of emergency services, benefits and drawbacks of keeping inventories, and study of management systems for acquiring and allocating inventories. | |||
| BES | 362 | Emergency Preparedness and Response | 3 |
| Introduces systems approach to EMS/Fire incident management. Topics include developing an incident control plan including how to assess the incident, taking control and making operational decisions, managing resource requirements in accordance with control requirements and implementing the control plan. Prerequisites: ICS100; ICS200; BEM (Basic Emergency Management). | |||
| BES | 370-1 | Personal Performance Management | 1 |
| Provides broad concepts of performance management and coaching including overseeing work priorities of others, identifying, addressing, reviewing, developing and maintaining personal performance issues. Explore managing staff through coaching, relation between coaching and leadership, performance reviews and modelling high standards of personal performance. Prerequisites: BES 344-1, BES 355-1, BES 370-2 and BES 370-3. | |||
| BES | 370-2 | Organizational Behaviour | 1 |
| Covers theory of individual behaviour, values, and personality, and how elements of personality may influence organizational environment. Examine key elements related to effectiveness and organizational structure and how constructive use of conflict, politics, and power and how its relationship may affect organizational success. | |||
| BES | 370-3 | Team Leadership & Development | 1 |
| Examine common traits and styles of leadership, application of these competencies, leading change and how they lead effective teams and organizations. Further topics cover examination of teams, groups, and communities of practice, and look at team development issues into the future. | |||
| BES | 380-1/380-2 | Critical Thinking/Reflective Thinking | 1/1 |
| BES 380-1: Intent is to improve ability to think with overview of skills and dispositions crucial to development and application of critical thinking. Determine importance of critical thinking on a personal, professional and global scale. Examine alternative categories of thinking that contribute to sound reasoning and comprehensive thinking skills. BES 380-2: Builds on concepts and principles introduced in BES 380-1. Continue to use critical thinking skills but focus on the skill of self-regulation and its attendant skill, metacognition. Final module of BAppBus:ES program provides opportunity to reflect on program and cohort learning experience. Prerequisites: BES 380-1 and BES 400. All BAppBus:ES Core Modules. |
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*Advance credit is not available for these modules Modules are generally worth one credit, run in three-week blocks and learners should expect to put in seven to 10 hours per week online while completing the module requirements. eCampusAlberta Homepage What it takes to be an on-line student Cohort Information--specific schedule information for each cohort. |
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Elective Modules (choose six)
Credits
| BES | 301-1 | Public Safety Awareness | 1 |
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| BES | 311-1 | Microeconomics | 1 |
| Provides analytical techniques needed to analyze and understand consumer behaviour, production decisions of firm, market structures, and market price mechanism. | |||
| BES | 311-2 | Macroeconomics | 1 |
| Provides overview of economic role of government in the economy, inter-relationships between government and financial interest groups, causes and effects of unemployment and inflation with emphasis on national policy making and its impact on provincial/state and local economies. Prerequisite: BES 311-1. | |||
| BES | 341-3 | Public Relations/Media Skills for Managers | 1 |
| Introduction to public relations and media issues. Topics include need and how to represent and promote an organization effectively; what resources are necessary, how to motivate the public to act on public safety issues, and what leadership role the individual may play in public relations. Prerequisites: BES 341-1, BES 341-2, BES 370-1 and BES 370-3. | |||
| BES | 344-2 | Legal Issues in Emergency Services | 1 |
| Looks at subject matters important to emergency service members who may serve in a management capacity that deals with law. Subjects addressed are: History of the Law, Types of Law, How is Law Developed and the Canadian Court System, the Law of Tort. | |||
| BES | 344-3 | Labour Relations/Contract Law | 1 |
| Helps understand union relations in an emergency service organization. The course is broken into five areas for discussion and information - history of Canadian labour movement and goal of unions, structures of union, labour-management relations, the bargaining process and administering the collective agreement. | |||
| BES | 355-3 | Strategic Management I | 1 |
| Introduces broad topic of Strategic Management including overview of the role and functions of strategic management in emergency services. Explore and discuss strategic, tactical, and operational plans with emphasis on developing methods for uncovering and resolving primary issues responsible for their failure. Prerequisites: BES 356-1, BES 356-2 and BES 370-1. | |||
| BES | 355-4 | Strategic Management II | 1 |
| This module follows BES 355-3: Strategic Management I and provides more detailed look at implementation and management phases of the strategic plan. Topics focus on monitoring, reviewing, and assessing the operation, via these chosen elements, of an existing strategic plan. Prerequisite: BES 355-3. | |||
| BES | 356-3 | Risk Management | 1 |
| Examine concepts of risk management. Gives essential knowledge and understanding of applying risk management principles, systems, processes, and tools that support a solid risk management plan. Develops a high-level understanding of emergent integrated risk management programs for emergency services. Demonstrates importance of key elements of integrated, flexible risk management approach for an all-hazards department. Shows value of a holistic approach to risk identification and management, and alignment of risk management with organization’s vision, mission, values, and strategies. | |||
| BES | 375-1 | Future of Leadership | 1 |
| Looks at key leadership traits, competencies and skills required in Emergency Service settings. Topics include various theories and models, and skills analysis on improving organizational effectiveness. Examine various leadership theories from past and current ones to new leadership concepts for the 21st century. | |||
| BES | 341-4 | Critical Incident Stress Management | 1 |
| Provides broad overview of the subject of critical incident stress in emergency services workers. Examine practical application of concepts, principles, models, including CISM model, and issues related to crisis interventions and programs for the management of critical incident stress. | |||
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Other business administration or university transfer courses may be taken as electives at the discretion of the department chair and program coordinator. Each cohort is presented with the full list of possible electives and votes on their preferences. The top selections from the voting results are the electives offered for that cohort. Directed practicum project: Students are required to complete two 16-week directed practicums where they'll do an emergency services project and submit a written report for each practicum. Students are expected to make their own practicum arrangements, generally with their employer. Practicum projects will be developed in consultation with a Lakeland College faculty member, the employer and the student. |
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