This Sample Program Pathway is designed to provide an example of course selections in a term by term sequence. Please see an Academic Advisor for a plan specific to your academic needs.
Description: Basic and intermediate instruction in fire suppression, fire chemistry and behavior, rescue, firefighting tools, appliances, equipment, built-in fire suppression systems and firefighting safety and survival. Three classroom, eight lab hours per week.
Prerequisites: Other (Approval of Fire Coordinator)
Description: Advanced instruction in fire-suppression operations, fire chemistry and behavior, rescue, firefighting tools, appliances, equipment, built-in fire suppression systems and firefighting safety and survival. Two classroom, four lab hours per week.
Prerequisites: FST 1101 or FST 1102 and Approval of Department
Description: Sixteen hour course meeting the requirements of the State of Ohio, Division of Emergency Medical Services for emergency vehicle drivers education.
Prerequisites: Other (Must have a valid motor vehicle operators license)
Term hours subtotal:
12
Description: Introduction to fundamental concepts necessary for understanding management, motivation and behavior in organizational settings. Emphasis on planning, organizing, influencing and controlling to continually improve effective management skills.
Description: In English Composition I students learn reflective, analytical and argumentative writing strategies, incorporating sources and personal experience. Students will negotiate between public and private rhetorical situations and purposes to achieve academic literacy. They will write multiple drafts using a recursive writing process as they work toward fluency in style and mechanics. Note: Students who have not successfully completed the pre-requisites listed can register for ENG 1101 together with the co-requisite course ENG 0101 - English Composition I Booster.
Prerequisites: DEV 0035 or Other (Placement Test Score)
Description: Mathematics of finance, mathematics of trade, payroll, taxes, insurance, elementary statistics. Traditional testing (proctored or in Testing Center) is used in all online sections.
Notes: MAT-1120, MAT-1130 OR Any Mathematics, Statistics & Logic elective from the approved Ohio Transfer 36 List. View electives at www.https://sinclair.edu/ot36
Description: Designed to improve speaking and listening skills through the study and application of public speaking structure, content and style. This course requires 5 speeches in front of a live audience. The online course sections require the recordings to be created by the student with at least 8 adults present for each speech. Any questions, please contact the Communication Department at com.dept@sinclair.edu.
Term hours subtotal:
12
Description: Overview of philosophical and ethical dimensions of the environmental crisis, such as environmental politics, animal rights and nonwestern views.
Notes: Any Arts and Humanities elective from the approved Ohio Transfer 36 List. View electives at: www.http://sinclair.edu/ot36
Description: Use word processing, spreadsheet, database and presentation software applications to create reports, spreadsheets, databases and presentations for business and other applications.
Description: Introduction through application of Human Resource Management concepts. Emphasis on Strategic Human Resource Management, Workforce Planning and Employment, Human Resource Development, Total Compensation and Rewards, Employee and Labor Relations and Risk Management.
Prerequisites: MAN 2150
Description: University-parallel course covering history and systems of psychology, behavioral research methods, physiology of behavior, sensation, perception, learning, memory, consciousness, cognition, personality, lifespan development, gender, social psychology, motivation, emotion, stress, mental disorders and therapies.
Notes: Any Social & Behavioral Science elective from the approved Ohio Transfer 36 List. View electives at: www.https://sinclair.edu/ot36
Term hours subtotal:
12
Description: Management, supervision and leadership of the fire company. This course meets the requirements of National Fire Protection Association 1021, Fire Officer I.
Notes: A-term
Prerequisites: FST 1101
Description: Management, supervision, leadership and command of multi-company operations. This course meets the requirements of National Fire Protection Association 1021, Fire Officer II.
Notes: B-term
Prerequisites: FST 2251
Description: This course covers the development and delivery of fire service training materials. Instructional motivations, student learning strategies and evaluation are addressed. This course also meets the requirements of the State of Ohio certification as a State Fire Instructor as well as the objectives in the National Fire Protection Association Standard 1041. Two classroom, four lab hours per week.
Prerequisites: FST 1101 and Approval of Department
Description: The fundamentals and technical knowledge needed for proper fire scene investigations, including recognizing and conducting origin and cause, preservation of evidence and documentation, scene security, motives of the fire setter and types of fire causes.
Description: The first course in a two-semester sequence studying the structure and function of the human body. Topics include introductory terminology, biochemistry, cytology, the integumentary system, the skeletal system, the muscular system, the nervous system and the endocrine system. Two classroom, two lab hours per week.
Notes: Any Natural & Physical Science elective from the approved Ohio Transfer 36 List. View electives at: www.http://sinclair.edu/ot36
Prerequisites: MAT 0050 or MAT 1120 or MAT 1130
Term hours subtotal:
15
Description: This course prepares the student to identify, abate and document fire safety hazards and meets the requirements for those qualified students to take the state certification examination for Fire Safety Inspector. Two classroom, four lab hours per week.
Prerequisites: Approval of Department
Description: The Live Fire Instructor course certifies firefighters to be a live fire instructor. In order for a firefighter to teach in a live fire environment, they must take both Fire Instructor (FST 2209) and Live Fire Instructor (FST 1403). This course will go beyond the NFPA 1403 standards and focus on the how-to aspects of conducting valuable live fire training evolutions in a safe and compliant manner. Four lab hour per week.
Prerequisites: FST 1102 and FST 1103 and FST 2209 and Approval of Department
Description: Administration of fire department operations and the management of programs, facilities and resources to provide a fire protection delivery system. This course meets the requirements of National Fire Protection Association Standard 1021, Fire Officer III.
Notes: A-term
Prerequisites: FST 2252
Description: Assessing the public fire protection needs of a community and the strategic planning and development of various components of the fire protection delivery system. This course meets the needs of National Fire Protection Association 1021, Fire Officer IV.
Notes: B-term
Prerequisites: FST 2253
Term hours subtotal:
12