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3.00 Credits
This course will prepare students with the skills and knowledge necessary to function as an entry level supervisor on the fire line. Students will gain detailed information pertaining to air operations, use of portable pumps, hose lays and will become proficient in the use of fire line reference materials. To successfully pass this course, students must participate in several competency based evaluations, exercises and Tactical Decision Games using Sand Table Exercises. Lab fees required for personal protective equipment. Students successfully completing the course will receive three National Wildfire Coordination Group (NWCG) certificates: S-270 Basic Air Operations, S-211 Water and Pumps and S-131 Advanced Firefighter.
Prerequisite:
Reading and Writing Skills 2 AND Math Skills 2 Alg AND FS 1504
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3.00 Credits
This course will provide students with the skills necessary to triage and safely engage wildland fires in the wildland urban interface. Students will learn the tools necessary to evaluate, protect, and assess unique hazards. This course will be taught as a hybrid course. In addition, students will meet several times during a semester to participate in Tactical Decision Games/Sand Table Exercises. National Wildfire Coordination Group Certification Standards: Students must be qualified as a Firefighter Type 1 to receive a certificate for this course.
Prerequisite:
Reading and Writing Skills 2 AND Math Skills 2 Alg AND FS 1504
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to meet the training needs of a crew boss and engine boss on a wildland fire incident. This course provides an introduction to operational leadership, mobilization, arrival at an incident, risk management, entrapment avoidance, safety and tactics, off line duties, demobilization, and post-incident responsibilities as they relate to the single resource crew boss.
Prerequisite:
Department approval
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3.00 Credits
Introduces an interdisciplinary approach to thinking about and planning for the future. Includes methods and applications of strategic foresight and decision making for building a more desirable future.
Prerequisite:
Reading and Writing Skills 2
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to help students achieve greater success in college and in life. Students will learn many proven strategies for creating greater academic, professional, and personal success. Topics may include career exploration, time management, study and test-taking strategies to adapt to different learning environments, interpersonal relationships, wellness management, financial literacy, and campus and community resources.
Prerequisite:
Reading and Writing Skills 1
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces the physical elements of world geography through the study of climate and weather, vegetation, soils, plate tectonics, and the various types of landforms as well as the environmental cycles and the distributions of these components and their significance to humans.
Prerequisite:
Reading and Writing Skills 2
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1.00 Credits
This laboratory course introduces the physical elements of world geography and the study of climate and weather, vegetation, soils, plate tectonics, various landforms, the environmental cycles and the spatial distributions of these components through the use of maps, aerial photographs, and laboratory specimens. Students explore the earth's biophysical environment and learn to identify and describe the physical geographic patterns that exist across earth's surface and about the processes that help create these patterns.
Prerequisite:
Reading and Writing Skills 2
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3.00 Credits
Overview of the physical geography, natural resources, cultural landscapes, and current problems of the world's major regions. Students will also examine current events at a variety of geographic scales.
Prerequisite:
Reading and Writing Skills 2
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3.00 Credits
This course serves as an introduction to the study of human geography. Human geography examines the dynamic and often complex relationships that exist between people as members of particular cultural groups and the geographical "spaces" and "places" in which they exist over time and in the world today.
Prerequisite:
Reading and Writing Skills 2
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3.00 Credits
This course is a survey of social and scientific aspects of environmental issues related to the degradation of land, air, and water resources from global, regional and local perspectives.
Prerequisite:
Reading and Writing Skills 2
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