[academia_course_sections title=”Fire Science Undergraduate Certificate”][academia_course_lesson icon_type=”fontawesome” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-file-text” badge=”lecture” title=”FIR 2301: Principles of Fire and Emergency Services” icon_tool_tip=”TEXT” estimate_time=”3 HOURS”]

Description

Provides an overview to fire protection and emergency services; career opportunities in fire protection and related fields; culture and history of emergency services; fire loss analysis; organization and function of public and private fire protection services; fire departments as part of local government; laws and regulations affecting the fire service; fire service nomenclature; specific fire protection functions; basic fire chemistry and physics; introduction to fire protection systems; introduction to fire strategy and tactics; life safety initiatives.

Objectives

1. Illustrate the history and culture of the fire service.
2. Analyze the basic components of fire as a chemical chain reaction, the major phases of fire, and examine the main factors that influence fire spread and fire behavior.
3. Differentiate between fire service training and education.
4. Explain the value of higher education to the professionalization for the fire service.
5. Describe the major organizations that provide emergency response service.
6. Identify fire protection and emergency-service careers in both the public and private sector.
7. Define the role of national, state and local support organizations in fire and emergency services.
8. Discuss the scope, purpose, and organizational structure of fire and emergency services.
9. Describe the common type of fire and emergency service facilities, equipment, and apparatus.
10. Compare and contrast effective management concepts for various emergency situations.
11. Identify the primary responsibilities of fire prevention personnel including, code enforcement, public information, and public and private protection systems.
12. Recognize the components of career preparation and goal setting.
13. Describe the importance of wellness and fitness as it relates to emergency services.

PreRequisites

None

Textbook(s)

* Disclaimer: Textbooks listed are based on the last open revision of the course. Prior revisions and future revisions may use different textbooks. To verify textbook information, view the course syllabus or contact the AU Bookstore at [email protected]

[/academia_course_lesson][academia_course_lesson icon_type=”fontawesome” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-file-text” badge=”lecture” title=”FIR 3311: Legal Aspects of Emergency Services” icon_tool_tip=”TEXT” estimate_time=”3 HOURS”]

Description

Addresses the federal, state, and local laws that regulate emergency services and includes a review of national standards, regulations, and consensus standards.

Objectives

1. Discuss and demonstrate a general understanding of our judicial system and how laws are made and relate how individuals from fire service organizations can benefit from the knowledge.
2. Identify the considerations, potential risks and possible mitigations of legal action against fire organizations.
3. Describe potential civil liabilities and possible criminal actions against fire and emergency service organizations.
4. Explain criminal law and the fact that firefighters and EMS personnel are responsible for their own criminal acts.
5. Identify and discuss the potential liability and avoidance of such liability in your fire and emergency service organization.
6. Examine the scope of the civil rights acts and discuss areas of potential discrimination that directly affect fire service organizations.
7. Describe the potential discrimination liabilities for fire and emergency service organizations.
8. Evaluate the Americans with Disabilities Act and describe the areas of potential liabilities under the Americans with Disabilities Act that fire service organizations face.
9. Identify the principles common to most workers’ compensation systems and know where to get information about your state’s workers’ compensation program.
10. Compare the requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and how the Act applies to fire service organizations including a discussion of the wage and hour provisions of FLSA.
11. Analyze the requirements of Family and Medical Leave Act (FLMA).
12. Summarize the Occupational Safety and Health Act and discuss the impact of safety and health regulations on fire and emergency service organizations.
13. Discuss fully the Age Discrimination Employment Act (ADEA) to include the parameters and requirements set forth by the act and describe methods of avoiding age discrimination within a fire service organization.
14. Describe how the various federal and state labor and employment laws impact your fire service organization.
15. Explain the collective bargaining process and describe how the process is governed and describe individual rights and responsibilities in the collective bargaining process and how a fire service organization is affected in the process.

PreRequisites

None

Textbook(s)

* Disclaimer: Textbooks listed are based on the last open revision of the course. Prior revisions and future revisions may use different textbooks. To verify textbook information, view the course syllabus or contact the AU Bookstore at [email protected]

[/academia_course_lesson][academia_course_lesson icon_type=”fontawesome” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-file-text” badge=”lecture” title=”FIR 4305: Fire Investigation and Analysis” icon_tool_tip=”TEXT” estimate_time=”3 HOURS”]

Description

Examines the dynamics of ignition, flame spread, and room fire growth and explores all phases of fire and explosion investigation, financial management, and other fire department functions related to incendiary fire analysis and investigation.

Objectives

1. Identify physical properties associated with different types of fuels.
2. Recognize the need for an analytical approach to fire investigation and analysis.
3. Define fire science analysis and investigation organizations and describe their basic characteristics and how these can be applied to fire department personnel and management.
4. Analyze the primary and secondary sources of ignition, also including appliances, smoking, and electricity.
5. Describe the various stages of fire development and the role environmental conditions have on fire behavior.
6. Summarize the combustion process involving flammable liquids, gaseous, and solid fuels.
7. Identify the investigative process for a fire involving a structure, grass or wildland, a vehicle, or a ship.
8. Explain how clothing and fabric can be the source of fires and contribute to fire growth.
9. Recognize the need for and use of laboratory services during the investigative process.
10. Explain the fire investigator’s role involving fire-related deaths and injuries.
11. Compare explosions and explosive combustion.
12. Describe how fires involving chemicals and hazardous materials present their own challenges compared to other types of fire.
13. Define arson as a crime and other related topics.

PreRequisites

None

Textbook(s)

* Disclaimer: Textbooks listed are based on the last open revision of the course. Prior revisions and future revisions may use different textbooks. To verify textbook information, view the course syllabus or contact the AU Bookstore at [email protected]

[/academia_course_lesson][academia_course_lesson icon_type=”fontawesome” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-file-text” badge=”lecture” title=”FIR 4311: Fire Prevention and Code Enforcement” icon_tool_tip=”TEXT” estimate_time=”3 HOURS”]

Description

Focuses on fire prevention through inspection, code enforcement, the use of model building and fire prevention codes, including detailed information on the legal, economic, and political aspects of the fire inspection process.

Objectives

1. Evaluate the interrelationship of codes, standards, and inspections in fire prevention.
2. Examine the building code development and modification process.
3. Explain the use and value of fire resistant materials in the construction process.
4. Analyze fire tests and rating systems that assess the quality of fire resistant materials used in construction.
5. Discuss the inspection procedures for each type of suppression system.
6. Summarize a comprehensive overview of the general fire safety provisions for occupied buildings.
7. Demonstrate the rationale for the general fire safety provisions as methods of fire protection.
8. Investigate characteristics of unsafe structures in accordance to fire codes.
9. Develop strategies to bring an unsafe structure into compliance with proper fire codes.
10. Discuss the installation, maintenance, and inspection procedures for water-based, halon, dry-chemical, and clean-agent fire suppression systems.

PreRequisites

None

Textbook(s)

* Disclaimer: Textbooks listed are based on the last open revision of the course. Prior revisions and future revisions may use different textbooks. To verify textbook information, view the course syllabus or contact the AU Bookstore at [email protected]

[/academia_course_lesson][academia_course_lesson icon_type=”fontawesome” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-file-text” badge=”lecture” title=”FIR 4312: Management of Fire Incident Command Systems” icon_tool_tip=”TEXT” estimate_time=”3 HOURS”]

Description

A comprehensive look at the skills necessary to successfully manage an emergency incident. Using nationally accepted standards, students analyze and apply the strategic considerations necessary to be successful on the fire ground. In addition, students gain valuable knowledge of the NIMS (National Incident Management System) as well as how to employ the Incident Command System (ICS) on the fire ground.

Objectives

1. Identify the fundamentals of emergency incident systems such as Incident Command System (ICS) and National Incident Management System (NIMS).
2. Discuss the responsibilities of emergency response personnel.
3. Analyze the functions of command.
4. Assess organizational health during a large-scale event to ensure appropriate personnel assignments.
5. Compare cue-based and classical decision-making models.
6. Describe how incident management is impacted by fire behavior.
7. Summarize strategies for successful incident management on the scene of an emergency incident.

PreRequisites

None

Textbook(s)

* Disclaimer: Textbooks listed are based on the last open revision of the course. Prior revisions and future revisions may use different textbooks. To verify textbook information, view the course syllabus or contact the AU Bookstore at [email protected]

[/academia_course_lesson][academia_course_lesson icon_type=”fontawesome” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-file-text” badge=”lecture” title=”FIR 4313: Terrorism Incident Management and Emergency Procedures” icon_tool_tip=”TEXT” estimate_time=”3 HOURS”]

Description

Examines the philosophies and tactics of terrorist groups, and discusses emerging terrorism trends. Also covers the study of terrorism methodology, terrorist incident response, and managing the consequences of terrorist events.

Objectives

1. Analyze the importance of a pre-attack threat assessment.
2. Explain levels of emergency response to a possible terrorist event.
3. Outline techniques of scene survey used to identify danger.
4. Describe general scene management after a terrorist attack.
5. Identify working zones at the scene of a terrorist attack.
6. Describe the National Incident Management System (NIMS).
7. Evaluate methods for dispersing chemical warfare agents in a chemical weapons attack.
8. Categorize the four methods of victim decontamination.
9. Classify agents used in chemical weapons attacks.
10. Characterize incendiary and explosive devices used by terrorists.

PreRequisites

None

Textbook(s)

* Disclaimer: Textbooks listed are based on the last open revision of the course. Prior revisions and future revisions may use different textbooks. To verify textbook information, view the course syllabus or contact the AU Bookstore at [email protected]

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