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Advanced Fire Administration

Examines organization and management in the fire service, including new technologies, changing organizational structures, personnel and equipment, municipal fire protection planning, manpower and training, and financial management.

Personnel Management for the Fire Service Examines relationships and issues in personnel administration and human resource development within the context of fire-related organizations, including personnel management, organizational development, productivity, recruitment and selection, performance management systems, discipline, and collective bargaining.

Fire Prevention Organization and Management Examines the factors that shape fire risk and the tools for fire prevention, including risk reduction education, codes and standards, inspection and plans review, fire investigation, research, master planning, various types of influences, and strategies.

Analytical Approaches to Public Fire Protection Examines tools and techniques of rational decisionmaking in fire departments, including databases, statistics, probability, decision analysis, utility modeling, resource allocation, cost-benefit analysis, and linear programming.

Incendiary Fire Analysis and Investigation Examines technical, investigative, legal, and managerial approaches to the arson problem, including principles of incendiary fire analysis and detection, environmental and psychological factors of arson, gang-related arson, legal considerations and trial preparations, managing the fire investigation unit, intervention and mitigation strategies, and shaping the future.

Disaster and Fire Defense Planning Examines concepts and principles of community risk assessment, planning, and response to fires and natural disasters, including the Incident Command System (ICS), mutual aid and automatic response, training and preparedness, communications, civil disturbances, natural disasters, hazardous materials planning, mass casualty disasters, earthquake preparedness, and disaster recovery.

Fire-Related Human Behavior Examines human aspects of the fire problem, including research and analysis of the problem and related issues in residential properties, wildland fires, assisted living/group home situations, commercial/industrial settings and multiuse highrise buildings.

Managerial Issues in Hazardous Materials Examines regulatory issues, hazard analysis, multiagency contingency planning, response personnel, multiagency response resources, agency policies, procedures and implementation, public education and emergency information systems, health and safety, command post dynamics, strategic and tactical considerations, recovery and termination procedures, and program evaluation.

Fire Protection Structures and Systems Design Examines design principles involved in structural fire protection and automatic suppression systems, including fire resistance and endurance, flame spread evaluation, smoke control, alarm systems, sprinkler innovations, evaluation of sprinkler system designs, and specialized suppression systems.

Political and Legal Foundations of Fire Protection Examines the legal, political, and social aspects of the government's role in public safety, including the American legal system, liability, negligence, code enforcement, and public sector personnel issues .

The Community and Fire Threat Examines concepts of community sociology, the role of fire-related organizations within the community, and their impact on the local fire problem, including fire service relationships within the community and other agencies, developing a community inventory, shaping community policy, master planing, and shaping community perceptions about the local fire service.

Fire Dynamics Examines fire dynamics within the context of firefighting and its applications to fire situations, including combustion, flame spread, flashover and smoke movement, as well as applications to building codes, large-loss fires, and fire modeling .

Applications of Fire Research Examines the rationale for conducting fire research, various fire protection research activities, and research applications, including fire test standards and codes, structural fire safety, automatic detection and suppression, life safety, and firefighter health and safety.

	Advanced Fire Administration	Examines organization and management in the fire service, including new technologies, changing organizational structures, personnel and equipment, municipal fire protection planning, manpower and training, and financial management.
	Personnel Management for the Fire Service	Examines relationships and issues in personnel administration and human resource development within the context of fire-related organizations, including personnel management, organizational development, productivity, recruitment and selection, performance management systems, discipline, and collective bargaining.
	Fire Prevention Organization and Management	Examines the factors that shape fire risk and the tools for fire prevention, including risk reduction education, codes and standards, inspection and plans review, fire investigation, research, master planning, various types of influences, and strategies.
	Analytical Approaches to Public Fire Protection	Examines tools and techniques of rational decisionmaking in fire departments, including databases, statistics, probability, decision analysis, utility modeling, resource allocation, cost-benefit analysis, and linear programming.
	Incendiary Fire Analysis and Investigation	Examines technical, investigative, legal, and managerial approaches to the arson problem, including principles of incendiary fire analysis and detection, environmental and psychological factors of arson, gang-related arson, legal considerations and trial preparations, managing the fire investigation unit, intervention and mitigation strategies, and shaping the future.
	Disaster and Fire Defense Planning	Examines concepts and principles of community risk assessment, planning, and response to fires and natural disasters, including the Incident Command System (ICS), mutual aid and automatic response, training and preparedness, communications, civil disturbances, natural disasters, hazardous materials planning, mass casualty disasters, earthquake preparedness, and disaster recovery.
	Fire-Related Human Behavior	Examines human aspects of the fire problem, including research and analysis of the problem and related issues in residential properties, wildland fires, assisted living/group home situations, commercial/industrial settings and multiuse highrise buildings.
	Managerial Issues in Hazardous Materials	Examines regulatory issues, hazard analysis, multiagency contingency planning, response personnel, multiagency response resources, agency policies, procedures and implementation, public education and emergency information systems, health and safety, command post dynamics, strategic and tactical considerations, recovery and termination procedures, and program evaluation.
	Fire Protection Structures and Systems Design	Examines design principles involved in structural fire protection and automatic suppression systems, including fire resistance and endurance, flame spread evaluation, smoke control, alarm systems, sprinkler innovations, evaluation of sprinkler system designs, and specialized suppression systems.
	Political and Legal Foundations of Fire Protection	Examines the legal, political, and social aspects of the government's role in public safety, including the American legal system, liability, negligence, code enforcement, and public sector personnel issues .
	The Community and Fire Threat	Examines concepts of community sociology, the role of fire-related organizations within the community, and their impact on the local fire problem, including fire service relationships within the community and other agencies, developing a community inventory, shaping community policy, master planing, and shaping community perceptions about the local fire service.
	Fire Dynamics	Examines fire dynamics within the context of firefighting and its applications to fire situations, including combustion, flame spread, flashover and smoke movement, as well as applications to building codes, large-loss fires, and fire modeling .
	Applications of Fire Research	Examines the rationale for conducting fire research, various fire protection research activities, and research applications, including fire test standards and codes, structural fire safety, automatic detection and suppression, life safety, and firefighter health and safety.

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