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Course Criteria
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2.00 Credits
This course will focus on the management of actions in emergency response situations including National Incident Management System (NIMS) ICS-100 and includes a supervised internship with an operational fire department. This course is designed to enable participants to demonstrate the basic knowledge of the Incident Command System (ICS) and provides the foundation for higher level ICS training. Topics include the history, features and principles, organizational structure of the Incident Command System, and the relationship between ICS and the National Incident Management System (NIMS). The target audience includes persons involved with emergency planning and response or recovery efforts.
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3.00 Credits
This course will focus on the strategy and tactics for initial company response, firefighter safety and survival techniques, flashover survival training, and weapons of mass destruction awareness. The course is designed to meet the needs of firefighters responsible for managing the operations of one or more companies during structural firefighting operations, to develop the management skills needed by company officers to accomplish assigned tactics at structure fires, to teach fire fighters about the basic knowledge and skills to handle an emergency situation on the fire ground, and to learn skills needed to keep firefighters from becoming lost, disoriented, or trapped during emergency situations.
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8.00 Credits
Prerequisite: FF 1117 Firefighter I This course prepares students with the knowledge and skills required to perform as an advanced level Firefighter based on standards set forth by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 1001, 2002. This course will include Firefighter II Academy and focus on the management of actions in emergency response situations including Hazardous Materials Operations, Introduction to Technical Rescue, Basic Vehicle Extrication, and Flammable Liquid and Gas Emergencies.
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1.00 Credits
Prerequisite: FF 2118 Firefighter II (Basic Vehicle Extrication) This course will build on the basic vehicle extrication techniques learned in Firefighter II. This class is designed to teach fire fighters about advanced techniques to be employed during vehicle extrication emergency situations. Students will be challenged through scenario based evolutions including scene safety, command, sizeup, stabilization, action plans, disentanglement, patient packaging, and rescue.
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3.00 Credits
This is a basic course covering the human race's relationship to its environment. The course explores areas such as cultural comparisons of resource utilization, differences in levels of economic development, and environmental influences on cultural development.
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3.00 Credits
This is a basic course covering the relationship of the human to the environment. This course explores areas such as cultural comparisons of resource utilization, differences in levels of economic development, and physical and environmental influences on cultural development.
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3.00 Credits
This is a survey course of geology, which includes the study of geologic forces in the earth such as volcanism, earthquakes, plate tectonics, mountain building, gravitation, weathering, erosion, sedimentation, groundwater, glaciation, ocean events, and fossilization. The course presents the composition of the earth's interior with concentration on the crust and techniques of reading the geologic history from Precambrian eras to present through the story told by the three basic types of rocks, how they form, and where they are found in relation to one another. This course will satisfy the lecture-only physical science requirement for graduation and is not intended for health or science majors. 3 hours lecture credit
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4.00 Credits
This is a beginning course in geology, which includes the study of topographic maps, rocks, and minerals, geological process and agents, landforms, weathering, running water, ground water, glaciers, gravity, and volcanism. The course includes a hands-on study of the properties of minerals and rocks, how to read mapstopographic and geologic, and some interpretation of geologic formation. This course will satisfy the physical science requirement for graduation. 3 hours lecture credit, 1 hour lab credit
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3.00 Credits
This course is a general survey of U.S. history from its pre-colonial origins to the end of the Reconstruction Era, with emphasis upon national political, diplomatic, economic, constitutional, social, and intellectual developments.
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1.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Approval of the instructor. This course presents studies in selected topics in history which develop capabilities in historical analysis and creative expression.
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