FIRE 370 Analytical Approaches to Public Fire Protection

This course examines the tools and techniques of rational decision-making in fire and emergency services agencies, including data collection, statistics, probability, decision analysis, utility modeling, resource allocation, and cost-benefit analysis.

For information regarding prerequisites for this course, please refer to the Academic Course Catalog.

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The fire service collects, examines, and analyzes data on a daily basis. This data is used to request equipment, create budgets, and much more. This course will give you a basic understanding of how to use and interpret this data during the course of your profession.


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Discussions (8)

Discussions are collaborative learning experiences. Therefore, the student is required to provide a thread in response to the provided prompt for each Discussion. Each thread must be 400 words and demonstrate course-related knowledge. In addition to the thread, the student is required to reply to 2 other classmates’ threads. Each reply must be 200 words. (CLO: A, B, C, D, E, F)

Quizzes (2)

Each quiz will cover the Learn material for the assigned modules: weeks. Each quiz will be open-book/open-notes, contain 2 essay questions, and have a time limit of 1 hour 30 minutes. (CLO: A, B, C, D, E, F)


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