Free for Texans, $1000 for Non-Texans 6-hour class bundle at East Texas A&M

[FireMedic_Philosopher]

I was actually considering those classes, but now hearing as they are more policing and less actual emergency management I think I’ll pass.

It is odd, because you dont even need a college degree to be a cop, so I dont see many taking graduate classes like this.

Hopefully you anyone else who takes them can get something out of them.

The emergency management class is still very much emergency management, but thus far seems set up as intro course aimed at a cop who has never experienced what emergency management is. At least the videos and examples thus far relate emergency management to law enforcement.

The public admin course is all law enforcement management ... so far 

Question: as a non-texan, do police officers run your county or state emergency management agencies? Is it for example a bureau in a sheriff's office, or an division within the state police or something?
Just trying to see if there is a reason for the focus.

Otherwise I'm just going to guess the instructor that wrote both courses is a retired cop.

As to your education comment, not exactly the case. For a small town officer, I totally agree. But at many county or state agencies for example you have to be a combat veteran or have a college degree to get hired by the state police. Both the state police and many counties here (IL) are starting to require graduate work to promote to command levels.