Dec 07, 2024  
University Catalog 2024-2025 
    
University Catalog 2024-2025

Undergraduate Certificate in Fire Service Administration

Location(s): Main Campus


The Departments of Technology and Political Science offer an undergraduate credit certificate program in Fire Service Administration. This program is designed to offer fire department personnel who hold an associate degree an opportunity to continue their education. Course work covers effective functioning in modern fire departments: planning, prevention and disaster administration, public administration, and personnel and budgeting administration.

The program contains a total of 15 units of upper division course work: 12 units of required courses and 3 units of electives. Courses taken to meet requirements of this program may also be applied toward the major requirement in B.S. Refer to the Undergraduate Study chapter of this catalog for general regulations governing all certificate programs.

An associate degree (A.A. or A.S.), or upper-division standing, or its equivalent in a related subject, or employment in a related position, or approval by program advisor, is prerequisite to enrollment in the program.