2022-2023 Pierce College Catalog 
    
    May 01, 2024  
2022-2023 Pierce College Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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FSLM 350 Fire Service Ethics (5 credits)



Prerequisite Admittance in the BAS-FSLM Program.

Course Description
This course examines the basic principles of ethics as related to fire service operations and management with special attention given to current issues in the fire service.

Course Content
A. Foundational Studies
B. Ethics in the Fire House
C. Administrative Ethics
D. Applied Ethics

Student Outcomes
1. Develop a value statement for your department.

2. Devise and implement an ethics training program for your department.

3. Review and revise minority recruitment strategies.

Degree Outcomes
Program Outcomes: Fire Service Leadership Apply a solid foundation of knowledge and skills to assume leadership roles in the fire service. Fire Service Personnel Management Understand the theories and apply the practice of fire service personnel administration and human resource management Critical, Creative and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze and synthesize information and ideas in order to construct informed, meaningful and justifiable conclusions. Intercultural Engagement: Graduates demonstrate self-efficacy in intercultural engagement to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion through reflections and expressions of cultural humility, empathy, and social and civic engagement and action. Further, graduates examine how identities/positionalities such as races, social classes, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, and cultures impact perceptions, actions, and the distribution of power and privilege in communities, systems, and institutions.

Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50



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