This course helps students develop practical, inexpensive, and easy ways to implement personal safety strategies. Focus areas include the psychology of criminal predators, mental preparedness, physical security, home security, automobile security, out-of-town travel security, technological security, and personal protection devices. Additional areas which may be covered include workplace security, security for parents and children (pre-school through high school), and security for senior citizens or those with physical disabilities. This is not a firearms instruction course and does not include instruction in physical self-defense. Students will receive a student handbook, informational brochure, and a course completion certificate.
Division of Lifelong Learning