FSLM 310 Fire Service Leadership (5 credits)

2. Develop and articulate philosophy of leadership.

3. Identify how leadership styles may be affected by crisis and non-crisis situations in the fire service.

4. Compare and contrast theories and describe how apply leadership theories to motivate self and others.

5. Construct a change management model using data sets and metics that support the process of planning, communicating and implementing change.

6. Demonstrate a range of skills addressing conflict management, use of power, group dynamics, leadership and influence.

7. Describe causes of team dysfunction in the fire service and develop a mitigation plan.

8. Develop a plan to mitigate fire service team dysfunctions.

9. Demonstrate the application of various decision-making fire protection systems models and their application to the fire service.

Degree Outcomes
Program Outcome: Fire Service Leadership Apply a solid foundation of knowledge and skills to assume leadership roles in the fire service. 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. Global Citizenship: 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.

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