Our Core Fire Service Curriculum
Fire Service Ethics
Examine the basic principles of ethics as related to fire service operations and management with special attention given to current issues in the fire service.
Community Risk Reduction for the Fire and Emergency Services
Gain a theoretical framework for the understanding of the ethical, sociological, organizational, political, and legal components of community risk reduction, and a methodology for the development of a comprehensive community risk-reduction plan.
Political and Legal Foundations for Fire Protection
Examine the legal aspects of fire service, political and social impacts of legal issues, and review the American legal system. Topics include employment and personnel matters, planning and code enforcement, and legislative and political processes with regard to the fire service.
Fire Prevention Organization Management
Address the knowledge, methods, and concepts for effective leadership of comprehensive fire prevention and risk-reduction programs.
Personnel Management for the Fire Service
You don't have to do it alone
Examine relationships and issues in personnel administration and human resource development. Topics include management, organizational development, productivity, recruitment and selection, performance management, discipline, and collective bargaining.
Applications of Fire Research
Explore the basic principles and methodology related to fire research and learn to conduct and evaluate independent research in the following areas: fire dynamics, fire test standards and codes, fire modeling, structural fire safety, firefighter health and safety, automatic detection and suppression, transportation fire hazards, risk analysis and loss control, and more.
Fire and Emergency Services Administration
Build and enhance the skills necessary to manage and lead a fire and emergency services department through 21st-century challenges. Examine how the leadership develops internal and external cooperation to create a coordinated approach to achieving the department’s mission.
Command and Control of Large-Scale Incidents
Build knowledge and skills necessary to command the mitigation of large-scale emergency incidents that require resources beyond the initial alarm assignment. Focus on preparation strategies and gain decision-making experience through participation in simulated large-scale incidents.
Disaster Management
Explore the complexity of issues related to the field of disaster management and the emergency management systems used to lessen the potential impact of disasters. Policy, sustainability, public education, disaster exercises, programming, and the built environment are all considered.
Integrative: Research Project in Fire Service Administration
Integrate the knowledge and skills gained from other courses in the program and demonstrate the ability to apply the knowledge to new subject matter and practical situations. Write, present, and defend an independent research project or study that analyzes, synthesizes, and integrates theory and practice to address a significant contemporary industry issue.
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Degree Requirements
Degree Outcomes
1. Demonstrate leadership skills and utilize administrative techniques related to the organizational management of fire and emergency services.
2. Integrate research, critical thinking, and analytical decision-making skills to address challenges faced in the delivery and execution of modern fire and emergency services.
3. Apply principles of ethics to evaluate fire and emergency services moral and social issues and make principle-based decisions.
4. Identify and prioritize public safety threats and hazards and develop fire and emergency service community risk reduction plans.
5. Conduct dynamic situational assessments and apply knowledge of risk reduction to develop strategic incident action plans that are consistent with professional standards and best practices to mitigate emergencies or disasters in the community.
Degree Requirements
General Education (40 Credits)
Includes approximately 10 courses that give you the opportunity to: communicate, think critically and comprehensively, and apply knowledge to workplace and community.
Fire Service Courses (36 Credits)
• Fire Service Ethics
• Community Risk Reduction for the Fire and Emergency Services
• Political and Legal Foundations for Fire Protection
• Select one of the following:
• Disaster Management
• Command and Control of Large-Scale Incidents
Management Courses (16 Credits)
• Statistics
• Select one of the following:
• Change Management
• Managing Conflict
Open Electives (28 Credits)
• Fire Prevention Organization and Management
• Personnel Management for the Fire Service
• Applications of Fire Research
• Fire and Emergency Services Administration
• Integrative Capstone: Research Project in Fire Service Administration
• Professional Communication
• Select one of the following:
• Media and Strategic Communication
• Managerial Communication
Open electives are defined as any credit course offered by the College not already included in the students general education, major, concentration or minor. Satisfy the remaining credit for your program with open electives.
Check with an advisor to discuss the possibilities of fulfilling requirements with transfer credit!
All National Fire Academy coursework, and many fire and emergency medical service certifications, are eligible for transfer credit and may fulfill your general education or open elective requirements. Electives may be met through transfer credit or professional training/ certification. Speak with an advisor to learn more.
Course names and numbers are subject to change. Please consult an advisor to plan your courses.
