Safety Education.

Catalog description

This course is designed to introduce teacher candidates to the basic principles of safety education, including personal safety, public safety, occupational safety, and school safety with a particular emphasis on traffic safety. Topics include unintentional injury prevention, behavior and environmental modification strategies, OSHA standards and guidelines, and the development of safety programs. Graduate credit requirements are described in the course syllabus. If this class is taken at the 500 level, it is a graduate course and expectations for student performance are at an advanced level. Evaluation of course requirements is more rigorous than at the lower division section of this course.