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Apr 30, 2024
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FSLM 265 Fire Officer II (5 credits)
Course Description
This course is an introduction to a fire officer’s duties as written by the requirements of the National Fire Protection Agency (NFPA) 1021, Standard for Fire Officer Professional Qualifications. Content includes interaction with government agencies, report writing, managing human resource, RMS, budgets, performance appraisal and exposure reports.
Course Content
A. Management Activities
B. Types and Forms of Government
C. Interagency and Intergovernmental Cooperation
D. Analyses, evaluations and Statistics
E. Human Resource Management II
F. Administrative Responsibilities
G. Fire and Life-Safety Inspections
H. Fire Investigations
I. Multiunit Emergency Scene Operations
J. Postincident Analysis and Critique
K. Safety Investigations and Analyses
Student Outcomes
Evaluate employee performance, group dynamics, professional development and behavior management according to established performance requirements.
Communicate the role, mission, and image of the department to a variety of stakeholders with similar goals and missions in order to establish strategic partnerships.
Construct a project, departmental budget, news release, and policy change according to established job performance requirements.
Conduct fire investigations, investigation report and chain of custody in order to determine origin, preliminary cause and meet legal requirements.
Supervise and implement multi-unit emergency operations, operational plans and postincident analysis.
Examine risk management through risk, injury, accident, and health exposure reports in order to identify unsafe work environments or behaviors.
Degree Outcomes
Information Competency (IC) - Graduates will be able to seek, find, evaluate and use information, and employ information technology to engage in lifelong learning.
Global Citizenship (GC) - Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable and equitable systems.
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.
Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50
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