Emergency Administration and Planning, BS

Degree requirements

Candidates for the Bachelor of Science with a major in emergency administration and planning must meet the following requirements.

Hours required and general/college requirements

A minimum of 120 semester hours for all pre-career EADP students: for those with no professionally relevant work experience 42 must be advanced; for all other EADP students 39 must be advanced. All students must fulfill the degree requirements for the Bachelor of Science degree as specified in the “University Core Curriculum ” in the Academics section of this catalog and the College of Public Affairs and Community Service requirements.

Major requirements

Required courses for all EADP students are:

The remaining hours for the major may be selected from

Other course requirements

ENGL 1310 - College Writing I (may be used to satisfy the English Composition and Rhetoric requirement of the University Core Curriculum)
TECM 2700 - Technical Writing (may be used to satisfy the English Composition and Rhetoric requirement of the University Core Curriculum)

Natural Sciences requirement

Choose one of the following to satisfy 3 hours of the Natural Sciences requirement of the University Core Curriculum.

Internship

Pre-career (students with no professionally relevant work experience) – A major of 42 hours; 36 hours plus 6 hours of internship classes (EADP 4800 and EADP 4810 ) plus 240 hours of actual internship work experience.

In-career (students with professionally relevant work experience) – A major of 39 hours. No internship required.

Minor requirements

A minor of at least 18 hours; 6 must be advanced.

Electives

At least 15 hours. Courses may be selected from any offered at UNT that the student and the advisor deem appropriate to the degree.

Other requirements

A grade of C or better and a minimum GPA of 2.5 on all courses in the major.
At least 30 hours must be completed at UNT.