Program Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this program, students will be able to:
- Identify fire protection and emergency service
- Develop components of career preparation and goal
- Identify various classifications of building construction and how fire impacts them
- Identify the fundamental theories of fire behavior and combustion
- Differentiate the various types of extinguishing agents
- Understand code enforcement as it impacts life and property
- Understand the concepts of risk management and mitigation as it pertains to emergency services
The Associate of Applied Science degree in Fire Science is designed to give students the essential educational and hands-on elements needed for a career in firefighting. Students will receive training in the basic concepts of firefighting and will participate in actual hands-on evolutions that will give them real experience in the firefighting career field. This program is extremely physically demanding and requires participants to successfully complete evolutions where the students operate in one of the most aggressive atmospheres that a human being can survive.
Note: The student must complete each course in the curriculum with a ‘C’ or better to graduate from the program.
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