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Course Criteria
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5.00 Credits
This course explores the legal issues that relate to emergency services such as arson law and legal responsibilities of emergency services officers, as well as criminal and civil law. Students will gain an understanding of laws that impact emergency services management at both the state and local levels. The course also examines recent case law and legal decisions that impact emergency services agencies.
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5.00 Credits
This course is designed as the culminating experience of the associates degree program in fire science. This course consists of a series of assignments that integrate concepts from the fire science curriculum. The assignments are designed to test application and critical thinking skills as students work through fact-based scenarios and analyze issues affecting contemporary practice.
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6.00 Credits
This course analyzes fire ignition dynamics, flame spread, and room fire growth. Students explore all aspects of incident investigation, financial management, and other functions related to fire analysis and investigation.
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6.00 Credits
This course explains the in-depth principles of fire protection system design. Students will explore fire systems and their components, such as sprinkler, water spray, water mist, standpipe, and ultra high-speed water spray systems, as well as other methods of fire extinguishment such as foam systems, dry chemical agents, and clean agent systems. Also, this course will provide a comprehensive review of special hazard detection and fire alarm systems.
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6.00 Credits
This course explores the modern management and planning techniques that are utilized to organize a fire department. Students will examine fire department organization and management through community risk reduction, codes and standards, inspections, plan review, incident investigation, fire prevention research, and the relationship of master planning to fire prevention.
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6.00 Credits
This course explains various aspects of the governments role in public safety, as well as the American legal system, fire and emergency medical services (EMS) operations, employment and personnel issues, and emergency officials roles. The course also discusses legislative and political influence in fire and EMS.
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6.00 Credits
This course examines the knowledge and skills needed to become a responsible leader and to manage a crew of firefighters. Topics include leadership and management during an incident, managing budgets and personnel, and standard operating procedures management. The course also analyzes challenges found by new leaders, the creation of a team environment, situational leadership, and ethical decision making.
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6.00 Credits
This course examines the ways in which humans respond to fire and how this knowledge has been used to their knowledge of human behavior research, system models, life safety education, and structure design as tools during emergency incidents. The course also describes how psychology, sociology, engineering, and education can beused to design effective life safety systems.
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6.00 Credits
This course examines the evolution of organizational and leadership dynamics in fire and EMS agencies. Students will examine common aspects of organizational behavior and leadership, including organizational development, communications, stress and conflict management, and motivation.
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6.00 Credits
This course explores current research methods utilized in the analysis of fire-related data. Students will gain an in-depth understanding of methods used to conduct and evaluate independent research in fire dynamics, test standards, safety, modeling, structural safety, firefighter health and safety, automatic detection and suppression systems, and transportation fire hazards. The course also introduces research methods for risk analysis and trend identification.
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