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BS in Fire and Emergency Services (FES)
Course Descriptions + Recommended Sequence
FES 3015 Principles of Fire and Emergency Services Management
Fundamentals of management underlying the solution of problems
of organization and operation of Fire and Emergency Services agencies.
FES 3033 Fire and Emergency Services Labor Issues
Determinants of demand for labor and labor supply. Labor market
equilibrium and changes in the equilibrium due to changes in
unionization, public policies, and technology.
FES 3823 FES Integrated Operations
The course covers the broad issues involved in comprehensive
emergency management at the local level.
FES 3755 FES Capital Equipment and Facilities
Procedures for the acquisition, utilization, and disposition of fire
and emergency services apparatus and station facilities will be
reviewed.
FES 3284 Management of Emergency Medical Services
This course covers personnel and resource management issues in
providing the EMS function. Quality Assurance and Utilization
Review techniques are also covered.
FES 3285 Advanced Leadership Issues in Emergency Medical
Services
The course covers organizational development issues in providing
the Emergency Medical Services function in the fire-based,
hospital-based and third service environments.
FES 3753 Fire Service Financial Management
The course addresses planning, developing, presenting, funding,
and implementing a budget for a fire and emergency services agency.
FES 3815 Command & Control at Catastrophic Fire-Rescue
Incidents
The course covers incident command at multiple-alarm incidents,
stressing rapid fireground decision-making, safety, personnel
accountability, and communications.
FES 3803 Multi-Agency Incident Command
The course deals with managing complex incidents that may require
response from fire-rescue, EMS, law enforcement, and/or other
public safety sectors.
FES 3153 FES Information Technology
Communications systems used in fire and emergency services such as
high frequency voice/data, Internets and Intranets, satellite
communications, GPS, and GIS will be the focus of this course.
FES 4224 Management of Mass Casualty Incidents
Course covers systematic approaches to triage, treatment, and
transport in response to large scale EMS incidents.
FES 4825 Design and Management of Community Disaster Exercises
The course covers exercise design, presentation, and evaluation for
testing a community's disaster plan. Designs from table-top to
full-scale are covered.
FES 4045 FES Human Resource Management
Prereq: FES 3015.
Major human resource management functional areas for Fire and Emergency
Services agencies are explored in this course.
FES 4585 Management of Fire Prevention Programs
The course covers planning, promoting, and executing fire prevention
functions, stressing legal responsibilities, needs assessments,
negotiation, and planning activities.
FES 4003 FES Public Policy and Administration
The role of administrative agencies in the formulation and implementation
of public policy. Emphasis will be placed on the politics of administration.
Case studies are included in this course.
FES 4935 Current Issues in FES
This course describes the role of public safety agencies in the formulation
and implementation of change that is either created from within or the
result of outside pressure. Emphasis will be on both the politics and
processes within the agency, the government and the public.
FES 4685 Management for Arson Prevention and Control
The course covers the elements of building a community's arson control
plan. The course work also includes coalition building and data collection
and analysis.
FES 4023 Leadership and Ethics
This course will cover the role of legal standards and professional codes
of ethics relative to fire and emergency services.
FES 4034 Regulatory Issues in Fire and Emergency Services
This course introduces the student to safety, health, and environmental
regulations on the state and federal levels that impact the delivery of
fire and emergency services. OSHA, EPA, and NFPA regulatory requirements
will be introduced along with methods and techniques to implement
compliance programs.
FES 4055 Public Relations
This course will cover the principles and practices used in effective and
persuasive communications in the fire and emergency services environment.