The Safety Management Program offers an opportunity for students who work full time to take courses and earn a degree. The admission and graduation requirements for on- and of-campus, full and part-time students are identical.
The program is offered on the West Virginia University campus in Morgantown and at the off-campus Center in the Northern Panhandle (Wheeling). Starting in August, 2011, the program will be offered in the Eastern Panhandle for a ‘cohort” of students in a blended format with online and on-site classes.
Courses are offered in the late afternoons and early evenings in Morgantown and either on-line or on Saturdays at the off-campus locations to accommodate non-traditional students.
Part-time on-campus students will meet with their advisor and schedule classes at times that best fit their working schedule.
At the Northern panhandle program, each course is seven weeks long, and there are two courses offered in both the fall and spring semesters, and a single course offered in the summer. Students may finish their degree in two and one-half years. Each of these courses is lead by an instructor, and students meet with the instructor for seven consecutive weeks.
The Eastern panhandle program will be a “blended” program, a mix of in-class and on-line classes, each running seven weeks. In the in-class courses, students will meet with their instructor for the entire seven week period. The on-line classes will be totally on line, with no meetings in the classroom. There will be one course – an Industrial Hygiene oriented course with laboratory activities – which will requires both in-class (lab activities) and on-line (lecture) activities. Generally, there will be one in-class and one on-line course in the fall and spring semesters, and an on-line course in the summer. This program is designed as a “cohort” program with all students starting in the fall of 2011, and finishing in the fall of 2014. Students will have the same options to do a problem report or a thesis as on-campus students.
NOTE: While on-campus and Northern panhandle students have the option of taking classes at either location, only students who are members of the Eastern panhandle cohort will be able to take the on-line courses.
For more information on the off-campus program contact either Dr. Michael Klishis at 304.293.9438, or the WVU Extended Learning Office at 1.800.2LEARN2.
