FSLM 180 Fire and Emergency Services Administration (5 credits)

2. Recognize the need for effective communication skills, both written and verbal.

3. Identify and explain the concepts of span and control, effective delegation, and division of labor.

4. Select and implement the appropriate disciplinary action based upon an employee’s conduct.

5. Explain the history of management and supervision methods and procedures.

6. Discuss the various levels of leadership, roles, and responsibilities within the organization.

7. Describe the traits of effective versus ineffective management styles.

8. Identify the importance of ethics as it relates to fire and emergency services.

9. Identify the roles of the National Incident Management System (NIMS) and Incident Management System (ICS).

Degree Outcomes
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. 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 Systems Legal Issues Understand and apply the legal framework of administrative actions and constitutional requirements to developing and maintaining a community fire protection system.

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