Students with seven years or more of relevant experience may be eligible to take the Anna Maria College Fire Service Administration MPA Mid-Career Track, allowing them to complete the degree program with 10 courses (six from the MPA curriculum and four Fire Service Administration concentration courses).

For students who have recently graduated or are looking for a career change, the Direct Track is 14 classes, including the Public Administration curriculum and four Fire Service Administration concentration courses.

Course                  Course Name                                          
Number                                                                               
EPR 601                 Essentials of Emergency Management                                 
EPR 619                 Hazards Analysis, Mitigation, and Sustainability                    
FRS 608                 Performance Management for Local Government                  

FRS 695                 Customer Service: Creating a Customer Friendly Org.           

Public Administration Curriculum:

GRS 600 Ethical Theory
Examines the intellectual and theoretical perspectives that form ethical theory and practice within the Judeo-Christian and liberal arts traditions.

PPO 604 Executive Leadership
Focuses on the study and analysis of human behavior patterns. Special consideration is devoted to the role of the public manager as a leader and motivator of people.

PPO 629 Public Labor Management Relations
Covers the development, structure, and current status of labor unions in the United States. The course examines management attitudes toward the bargaining process, the evolution of labor legislation, and government policy toward labor management relations.

PPO 633 Organizational Theories and the Public Sector
The course examines the fundamental theory of the management development process and the analysis of employee behavior patterns.

PPO 711 Managerial Statistics for Public Managers
Focuses on probability and statistics with an emphasis on data analysis, including univariate and multivariate techniques. Statistical problem solving is engaged using various data sources.

PPO 721 Management Policies in Government Finance
This course focuses on management principles and practice while outlining the financial and economic context within which public financial management takes place.

PPO 740 Public Policy
Drawing on case studies and previous coursework in ethics, quantitative analysis, and management, students will develop models for solving significant problems in the public arena coupled with strategies for implementing these policies.

PPO 745 Professional Government Management
Professional Government Management This course provides a thorough grounding in the theory behind successful management practices as well as how they work in practice. Emphasis is on such tasks as providing community leadership; working with the governing body; promoting the community's future; managing people, money, and information effectively; implementing policy; raising productivity; evaluating programs; and working with other organizations to achieve your goals. The course also focuses on the human side of professional government management.

PPO 824 Stress Management for Public Managers and Organizations
This course gives senior leaders the skills to manage their own health and stress as well as the skills to support and lead others in crisis situations. Students will be called on to develop their own stress management plans and to develop plans for crisis situations, such as an organization's response to the death of a member in the line of duty.

PPO 891 Strategic Planning for Public Managers
Students will use critical thinking to plan an organization's long-term and short-term goals, considering issues such as the most effective allocation of resources and staff motivation. The importance of planning units and quality reviews to assess organizational outcomes will be stressed.

Fire Service Administration Concentration Courses:

EPR 601 Essentials of Emergency Management
Covers basic concepts and functions in emergency management, especially the importance of teamwork.

EPR 619 Hazard Analysis, Mitigation, and Sustainability
The class introduces methods of identifying potential risks and estimating and evaluating how to prevent and mitigate them. The link between sustainable development and hazard alleviation will also be discussed.

FRS 608 Performance Management for Local Government
This course will take the student through a brief overview of service performance measurement, and then delves into successful service performance management practices. It reviews successful results from local governments, a step-by step approach for establishing a system designed to get results, and the importance of tying performance measures to the nuts and bolts of the service delivery system.

FRS 695 Customer Service: Creating a Customer Friendly Organization
This course allows the student to develop a customer service program specific to their respective community. Through case analysis and examination of practices within other public and private sector agencies, customer service will be examined as a foundational philosophy that is a critical component of a dynamic emergency services organization.