FSLM 420 Fire Dynamics (5 credits)

2. Explain the flame spread and smoke production properties of building furnishings and materials.

3. Explain the importance of, and be able to calculate, heat release rate for combustibles.

Degree Outcomes
Program Outcomes: Fire Service Research Apply scientific methods of inquiry and research to arrive at reasoned decisions regarding fire service leadership and administration. Fire Administration Evaluate industry standard administrative techniques s they relate to organizational management in fire service settings. Fire System Risk Management Analyze the factors that shape risk and apply them to strategies for fire and injury prevention including fire risk reduction prevention, enforcement, investigation, research and planning. Fire Systems Legal Issues Understand and apply the legal framework of administrative actions and constitutional requirements to developing and maintaining a community fire protection system. Effective Communication: Graduates will be able to exchange messages in a variety of contexts using multiple methods. 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. Fire Service Research Apply scientific methods of inquiry and research to arrive at reasoned decisions regarding fire service leadership and administration.

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