FSLM 410 Fire Prevention Organization and Management (5 credits)

2. Analyze code enforcement and plans review concepts.

3. Analyze fire and life safety education concepts.

4. Analyze methods for effective fire, arson, and explosion investigation

5. Examine historical events and their influence on fire prevention.

6. Examine social, cultural, and behavioral concepts that influence effective prevention programs.

7. Identify and analyze local, state, and federal resources.

8. Examine methods to enhance professional development of fire-prevention and other emergency service personnel

9. Examine policies, procedures, and impacts of effective fire-prevention efforts.

10. Analyze budgeting and program funding concepts.

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 Organizational Management Apply organizational theories and models of behavioral science in organizational diagnostics and development to organizational challenges associated with the fire protection services. Fire Administration Evaluate industry standard administrative techniques s they relate to organizational management in fire service settings. Fire Service Personnel Management Apply organizational theories and models of behavioral science in organizational diagnostics and development to organizational challenges associated with fire protection services. 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.

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