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Eligibility Criteria

Bachelor's Degree or equiv. international education

Credit Hours

60 Hours

Course Duration

1 Year (Self-Paced)

Courses Offered

10

Latest Developments in Fire Sciences and Occupational Safety

This course is designed for the fire and law enforcement investigators, prosecutors, and fire protection professionals. It provides a thorough understanding of fire dynamics, describing and illustrating a totally new systematic approach for reconstructing fire scenes.

Hazardous Materials

This course is designed to understand the importance of safety measures that must be taken while handling hazardous materials. The topics of this course include Principles of Chemical Reactions, Chemical Forms of Matter, Chemistry of Some Oxidizers and Radioactive Materials.

Fire Sciences and Occupational Safety

This course provides managers, architects, plant engineers, technicians, and others with a practical knowledge in the principles of fire protection, life safety elements and property loss control.

Risk Management

This course shows you how to utilize all the tools available through public education, how to contribute to their planning efforts by incorporating investigation activities into a coordinated strategy for loss control, and how to organize their prevention efforts in the most effective manner.

Fire Service Instructor

This course provides a baseline level of computer networking knowledge. This course covers experimental data relevant to learning theories, instruction methodologies and evaluation techniques with reference to the training of fire service instructors. This course will be highly appealing to all those working in fire safety engineering and related disciplines.

Fire Sciences and Rescue Techniques

This course presents the strategies and tactics most commonly encountered by fire rescue professionals. Topics of this course include mental and emotional crises of rescue, rescue tools and equipment, special rescue situations, and rescue operations management.

Methods and Materials for Fire Service

This course discusses the fundamentals of building construction methods and materials of construction. The approach is to study the stability of buildings and materials under fire conditions. The emphasis is upon safety under fire conditions and the technology of limiting fire spread in new and existing buildings.

Risk Management and Safety Technology

This course will help you understand the principles lying under the risk management principles and safety technology. The topics of this course include basic concepts underlying Risk Management, along with case studies of various corporations that would help you to gain an understating of the current risk management techniques.

Special Topics in Fire Sciences

This course includes special topics in fire sciences. The topics of this course include Fire Fighter Safety, Life Safety, Fire Protection Systems, Fire Protection Systems, and Defensive Operations.

Advanced Fire Prevention

This course provides you with the identification and analysis of key managerial issues confronting contemporary fire preventions. Course covers in details about application in current methods and planning, organizing, developing and evaluating public fire/emergency services programs.

Cost of Attendance

Tuition Fee Breakdown 1 Cost
MASTERS DEGREE $27,000
Medical Insurance $0.00
Personal Expenses $0.00
Study Materials $0.00
Food Cost $0.00
Total Tuition Fee $27,000
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At University of McCordsville, we champion the convergence of affordability and opportunity. Our steadfast commitment to accessible education guarantees that high-quality learning is accessible to all. By eliminating financial obstacles, we grant students the freedom to thrive without the burden of overwhelming tuition costs, empowering them to carve out a bright and promising future.

Latest developments in fire sciences and occupational safety

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Principles of reconstruction.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Basic fire dynamics.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Arson crime scene analysis.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Fire death and injuries.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Fire testing.
    Future tools for the fire investigator.

Hazardous materials

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Course introduction
    Awareness review
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Protective clothing and equipment
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Termination procedures
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Safety at hazmat incidents
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Conclusion

Fire sciences and occupational safety

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Introduction
    Characteristics and behavior of fire
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Emergency organization
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Fire safety in design and construction
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Automatic fire detection and alarm systems
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Education and training

Risk management

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    An overview of the comprehensive approach to prevention.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Planning for fire and life safety prevention.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    The plan review process: engineering elements in prevention.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Code enforcement/development: developing quality codes and making sure they are enforced.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Public fire and life safety education programs.
    Fire investigation.
    Staffing, training and funding options for prevention programs.
    Evaluating prevention programs.

Fire Service Instructor

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The role of the instructor
    Methodologies of instruction
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Learning theories
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Learning environments
    Legal issues in instruction
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Conducting practical training exercises
    Curriculum development
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Organizing and running a training program

Fire Sciences and Rescue Techniques

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Introduction.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    History of the use of biological, chemical, and radiological agents.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Safe operations at terrorist incidents.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Affects of biological, chemical, and radiological agents.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Terrorism emergency response scenarios.

Methods and Materials for Fire Service

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Building construction and the fire service
    Design principles
    Building classifications
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The way builmdings are built structural principles
    Building materials
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Foundations
    Structural systems
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Floors and ceilings
    Walls
    Roofs
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Door and window assemblies
    Interior finish
    Building services and subsystems
    Underground facilities and other considerations
    Building fire protection systems
    Buildings under construction

Risk Management and Safety Technology

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Introduction.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Lessons learned from case studies.
    Chase manhattan corporation.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    E.i. du pont de nemours and company.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Microsoft corporation.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    United grain growers limited.
    Unocal corporation.
    Conclusion.

Special Topics in Fire Sciences

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Organizing, coordinating, and commanding emergency incidents
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Procedures, pre-incident planning, and size-up
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Fire fighter safety
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Life safety
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Fire protection systems

Advanced Fire Prevention

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Suppression agents and principles
    Portable fire extinguishers
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Portable and mobile foam equipment
    Foam extinguishing systems
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Carbon dioxide extinguishing systems
    Dry chemical extinguishing systems
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Halogenated agent extinguishing systems
    Explosion suppression systems
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Specialized extinguishing systems
    Fire detection systems
    Residential fire detection
    Thermal detection systems
    Smoke detection systems
    Flame detection systems
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