Online Fire Science Courses
Spring 2008
FDNY and John Jay College of Criminal Justice will again combine
resources to present a series of Fire Science courses that can be
applied toward requirements and electives of the Fire Science B.S.
degree or the Fire and Emergency Services B.A. degree.
Each course carries three credits, and is taught by FDNY personnel
or John Jay faculty members Each undergraduate course costs $510
plus fees and each graduate course costs $810 plus fees.
Students complete these courses by regularly participating in
classes via the internet according to the student’s own schedule.
Courses use the Blackboard online instruction platform. The following
courses will be offered:
- FIS 104 Risk Management - Professor Flannery:
This course will examine risk management strategy which is the
decision-making process involving considerations of political,
social, economic and engineering factors with relevant risk assessments
relating to a potential hazard so as to develop, analyze and compare
regulatory options.
- FIS 210 Fire Safety Administration - Professor Best:
This course focuses on satisfying the administrative needs of
a student who is preparing for a career requiring a knowledge
of the principles of fire safety and the various laws that have
been enacted to assure fire safety in the workplace.
- FIS 230 Building Construction/Life Safety - Professors
Fuerch and Dunn: This course provides an overview of
building construction and building systems. Crafting principles
and plan reviews will be introduced. This introduction will expose
the student to actual problems as they exist in the field. Fire
ratings of building components will be studied and integrated
with applicable building codes. Relationships between fire protection
and life safety will be reviewed. Smoke and flame travel will
be studied to determine effective means of control. Modern high
rise structures will be reviewed to determine the unique problems
they present to life safety and firefighting
- FIS 297 9/11 and Emergency Response - Professor Corbett
- FIS 299 Human Behavior in Emergencies - Professor Blaich:
This course reviews the relationship between structural
and demographic factors and the prevalence and incidence of fire
and related emergencies. It also reviews the factors that influence
human behavior in emergencies, particularly with respect to incident
management, rescue and evacuation. Emerging research and modeling
techniques will be reviewed.
- FIS 319 Hazard Identification and Mitigation - Professor
Best: This course is a review of two basic concepts in
emergency management: hazard identification and hazard mitigation.
Students will explore the range of natural hazards such as hurricanes
and earthquakes as well as human or unnatural disasters such as
terrorist attacks and building collapses. The frequency and severity
of hazards are quantified. The course will also include discussions
of a variety of mitigation techniques such as hazard abatement
and structural hardening as well as risk/benefit analysis.
- FIS 393 Utilities Infrastructure - Professor Montagna:
This course provides a systematic risk analysis of utility
distribution systems and infrastructures for natural gas, electricity,
steam and water, including the prevention, detection, control
and suppression of routine and catastrophic failures of such systems,
particularly at the end-user stage of distribution. The course
will examine techniques of incident assessment, management, decision
making, and mitigation for professional responders.
- FIS 299 Dispatch and Communication Systems- Professor
Carver: The course will examine the design, administration
and operation of dispatch and communication systems as a part
of the emergency management and fire service continuum. Topics
will include an overview of the behavioral and physical science
and history of communications; the function of effective communications
as a part of incident management communications systems and technologies;
and dispatch operations and methodologies.
Applicants for any of the courses listed above should email Diana
Neff at jjcwestpoint@yahoo.com and expressions of interest will
be recorded on an intent-to-register list. Students will be programmed
into classes of their choice based on the date of the intent-to-register
list. Late registrants may be closed out of their first choice.
Admission applications can be obtained at http://www.jjay.cuny.edu.
Completed applications, including legally-required immunization
documentation, should be submitted as soon as possible.
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