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CORE COURSES

PADM 3612 Fire Prevention, Organization and Management (3)
Examines and evaluates techniques, procedures, programs and agencies involved in fire prevention. Includes public and private fire prevention functions, licenses, permits, zoning, legal aspects, inspection, investigations, planning, arson and incendiary analysis.

PADM 3613 Fire and Emergency Services Administration (3)
Overview of organization and management in modern fire service; includes management of equipment and personnel, fire department functions planning, resources development, and labor relations.

PADM 3614 Political and Legal Foundations of Fire Protection (3)
Legal basis for police power of government related to public safety, legal limitations and responsibility, liability of fire prevention organizations and personnel. Review of judicial decisions, implications of product liability cases in fire prevention.

TECH 3940 Analytic Approaches to Public Fire Protection (3)
Systems analysis and its use and limitations in fire protection and other problem areas. Illustrated with case studies and models using systems approach to fire suppression and prevention. This course meets the general education computation intensive requirement.

TECH 3944 Fire Protection Structures and Systems (3)
Design principles involved in protection of structure from fire involvement. Empirical tests and prediction procedures. Control, detection, and suppression system design practices. Fundamentals of hydraulic design of sprinkler and water spray systems with recent innovations.

TECH 3947 Applications of Fire Research (3)
Fire research and its application; transfer and implications of available research results for fire prevention and protection programs. National and international studies and research development. This course prepares the student for the Special Project and is a prerequisite for it.

TECH 3948 Managerial Issues in Hazardous Materials (3)
Examination of federal regulatory issues, hazard identification and vulnerability analysis, multi-agency contingency planning, response personnel, multi agency response resources and systems. Discussion of agency policies, public education and emergency information systems, health and safety issues, command post dynamics, strategic and tactical considerations, recovery and termination procedures.

FIRE SERVICES ADMINISTRATION CONCENTRATION

PADM 3610 Personnel Management for the Fire & Emergency Services (3)
Personnel practices and management procedures. Included are manpower planning, labor relations, recruitment, selection, testing, performance appraisals, classification, motivation, politics, and management.

PADM 3611 Disaster Planning & Control (3)
Concepts of principles of community risk assessment, regional and cooperative procedures and plans, relationship of structural, climatic and topographic variables to group fires, conflagrations and natural disasters, pre- and post-occurrence factors, communications, planning, organizing, coordination, command, and logistics.

PADM 3615 Community Risk Reduction (3)
The sociological, economic and political characteristics of communities and their influence on the fire problem. How to study community profiles and structures with consideration of the economic, geographic, and sociological variables of the fire threat. Examination of functional basis of the community, diverse social roles of community agencies, and study of fire services as a complex organization in community.

FIRE PREVENTION TECHNOLOGY CONCENTRATION

TECH 3942 Fire Related Behavior (3)
Dynamics of human behavior in fire incidents related to building design, codes and ordinances and other fire prevention practices.

TECH 3945 Fire Investigation and Analysis (3)
Procedures and techniques for the collection, comparison and analysis of the physical evidence related to origin; principles of evidence of ignition phenomenon and propagation variables. Legislative, economic, psychological, and sociological variables of the incendiary fire. The role of insurance and government programs.

TECH 3946 Fire Dynamics (3)
Study of fire propagation phenomenon in both fuel and air regulated phases; variables in pre- and post-flash-over fire development. Study of geometric, material, gaseous, fluid flow, and thermodynamic parameters; compartment and building fire models.