Course Descriptions

EDU 259 Curriculum Planning (3 Credit Hours)

EDU 261 Early Childhood Admin I (3 Credit Hours)

EDU 262 Early Childhood Admin II (3 Credit Hours)

EDU 263 School Age Program Administration (2 Credit Hours)

EDU 271 Educational Technology (3 Credit Hours)

EDU 280 Language & Literacy Exp (3 Credit Hours)

EDU 282 Early Childhood Lit (3 Credit Hours)

EDU 284 Early Child Capstone Prac (4 Credit Hours)

EDU 288 Adv Issues/Early Child Ed (2 Credit Hours)

ELC 112 DC/AC Electricity (5 Credit Hours)

Competencies
Student Learning Outcomes
1. Demonstrate safe practices and procedures with tools, materials, and industry accepted test equipment covered in the course.
2. Demonstrate appropriate use of test equipment, evaluate circuit performance and apply appropriate troubleshooting techniques to electrical circuits.
3. Construct and analyze series, parallel and combinations circuits using appropriate components.
4. Use appropriate laws and formulas to perform circuit calculations.
5. Interpret electrical schematics.
6. Describe the characteristics of various power sources.

ELC 113 Residential Wiring (4 Credit Hours)

Competencies
Student Learning Outcomes
1. Identify and demonstrate safe practices and procedures with tools, materials and industry accepted test equipment covered in the course.
2. Demonstrate appropriate use of test equipment, evaluate circuit performance and apply appropriate troubleshooting techniques to residential electrical circuits.
3. Draw, plan and interpret electrical plans and symbols used in residential applications
4. Identify, size, and install wiring and electrical distribution equipment and devices associated with residential electrical installations in accordance with the National Electrical Code.
5. Recognize and demonstrate appropriate use of tools and materials that are used in residential wiring.

ELC 115 Industrial Wiring (4 Credit Hours)

Competencies
Student Learning Outcomes
1. Identify and demonstrate safe practices and procedures with tools, materials and industry accepted test equipment covered in the course.
2. Demonstrate appropriate use of test equipment, evaluate circuit performance and apply appropriate troubleshooting techniques to industrial electrical circuits.
3. Draw, plan, and interpret electrical plans and symbols used in industrial applications.
4. Identify, size, and install wiring and electrical distribution equipment and devices associated with industrial electrical installations in accordance with the National Electrical Code.
5. Recognize and demonstrate appropriate use of tools and materials that are used in industrial wiring.

ELC 117 Motors and Controls (4 Credit Hours)

Competencies
Student Learning Outcomes
1. Demonstrate safe practices and procedures with tools, materials and industry accepted test equipment covered in the course.
2. Demonstrate appropriate use of test equipment, evaluate circuit performance and apply appropriate troubleshooting techniques to control circuits.
3. Interpret and use ladder and wiring diagrams, symbols, and schematics.
4. Demonstrate and describe the use of relays, contactors, motor starters and pilot devices in electrical control circuits.
5. Describe principles and operations related to electrical control circuits.
6. Describe the concepts of rotating electrical machinery.

ELC 118 National Electrical Code (2 Credit Hours)

ELC 119 NEC Calculations (2 Credit Hours)

ELC 126 Electrical Computations (3 Credit Hours)

ELC 128 Intro to PLC (3 Credit Hours)

Competencies
Student Learning Outcomes
1. Identify and demonstrate safe practices and procedures with tools, materials and industry accepted test equipment covered in the course.
2. List and describe the hardware components used in PLC systems.
3. Utilize numbering systems as applied to PLCs.
4. Demonstrate and describe the use of various PLC instruction sets.
5. Create various simple PLC programs using the appropriate instruction set.
6. Apply appropriate troubleshooting methods to PLCs.

ELC 131 Circuit Analysis I (4 Credit Hours)

Competencies
·Student Learning Outcomes
1. Identify and describe the operation of components used in DC/AC circuits.
2. Apply math formulas and circuit theorems in the analyses of DC/AC Circuits.
3. Locate and select DC/AC devices using component specifications based on circuit requirements.
4. Construct series, parallel and combination circuits.
5. Select and demonstrate the use of appropriate test equipment to analyze circuit operation.
6. Using appropriate troubleshooting techniques evaluate circuit performance applying suitable repair methods.
7. Identify and demonstrate safe workplace practices.

ELC 133 Circuit Analysis II (4 Credit Hours)

ELC 135 Electrical Machines (3 Credit Hours)

ELC 213 Instrumentation (4 Credit Hours)

ELC 220 Photovoltaic Sys Tech (3 Credit Hours)

ELC 221 Adv PV Sys Designs (3 Credit Hours)

ELC 231 Electric Power Systems (4 Credit Hours)

ELN 131 Analog Electronics I (4 Credit Hours)

Competencies
Student Learning Outcomes
1. Identify and describe operation of semiconductor devices.
2. Analyze where and how analog components are used.
3. Locate and select analog devices using component specifications based on circuit requirements.
4. Construct operational circuits using analog devices.
5. Select and demonstrate the use of appropriate test equipment to analyze circuit operation.
6. Using appropriate troubleshooting techniques evaluate circuit performance applying suitable repair methods.
7. Identify and demonstrate safe workplace practices.

ELN 132 Analog Electronics II (4 Credit Hours)

ELN 133 Digital Electronics (4 Credit Hours)

Competencies
Student Learning Outcomes
1. Identify and describe the operation of digital electronic devices and circuits.
2. Analyze where and how digital electronics circuits are used.
3. Locate and select digital electronic devices using component specifications based on circuit requirements.
4. Construct operational circuits using digital devices.
5. Select and demonstrate the use of appropriate test equipment to analyze circuit operation.
6. Using appropriate troubleshooting techniques evaluate circuit performance applying suitable repair methods.
7. Identify and demonstrate safe workplace practices.

ELN 150 CAD for Electronics (2 Credit Hours)

ELN 229 Industrial Electronics (4 Credit Hours)

ELN 231 Industrial Controls (3 Credit Hours)

ELN 232 Intro to Microprocessors (4 Credit Hours)

ELN 237 Local Area Networks (3 Credit Hours)

ELN 260 Prog Logic Controllers (4 Credit Hours)

EMS 110 EMT (8 Credit Hours)

EMS 115 Defense Tactics for EMS (2 Credit Hours)

EMS 120 Advanced EMT (6 Credit Hours)

EMS 121 AEMT Clinical Practicum (2 Credit Hours)

EMS 122 EMS Clinical Practicum I (1 Credit Hour)

EMS 125 EMS Instructor Methodology (2 Credit Hours)

EMS 130 Pharmacology (4 Credit Hours)

EMS 131 Advanced Airway Management (2 Credit Hours)

EMS 140 Rescue Scene Management (2 Credit Hours)

EMS 150 Emergency Vehicles & EMS Comm (2 Credit Hours)

EMS 160 Cardiology I (2 Credit Hours)

EMS 220 Cardiology II (3 Credit Hours)

EMS 221 EMS Clinical Practicum II (2 Credit Hours)

EMS 231 EMS Clinical Pract III (3 Credit Hours)

EMS 235 EMS Management (2 Credit Hours)

EMS 240 Patients W/ Special Challenges (2 Credit Hours)

EMS 241 EMS Clinical Practicum IV (4 Credit Hours)

EMS 250 Medical Emergencies (4 Credit Hours)

EMS 260 Trauma Emergencies (2 Credit Hours)

EMS 270 Life Span Emergencies (3 Credit Hours)

EMS 280 EMS Bridging Course (3 Credit Hours)

EMS 285 EMS Capstone (2 Credit Hours)

EPT 120 Sociology of Disaster (3 Credit Hours)

EPT 124 EM Services Law & Ethics (3 Credit Hours)

EPT 130 Mitigation & Preparedness (3 Credit Hours)

EPT 140 Emergency Management (3 Credit Hours)

EPT 150 Incident Management (3 Credit Hours)

EPT 210 Response & Recovery (3 Credit Hours)

EPT 220 Terrorism and Emer. Mgt. (3 Credit Hours)

EPT 275 Emergency OPS Center Mgt (3 Credit Hours)

EGR 111 Engineer Comp and Careers (3 Credit Hours)

EGR 115 Intro to Technology (3 Credit Hours)

EGR 150 Intro to Engineering (2 Credit Hours)

EGR 220 Engineering Statics (3 Credit Hours)

EGR 250 Statics/Strength of Materials (5 Credit Hours)

EGR 285 Design Project (2 Credit Hours)

ENG 111 Writing and Inquiry (3 Credit Hours)

Competencies
Student Learning Outcomes
1. Demonstrate writing as a recursive process.
2. Demonstrate writing and inquiry in context using different rhetorical strategies to reflect, analyze, explain, and persuade in a variety of genres and formats.
3. Students will reflect upon and explain their writing strategies.
4. Demonstrate the critical use and examination of printed, digital, and visual materials.
5. Locate, evaluate, and incorporate relevant sources with proper documentation.
6. Compose texts incorporating rhetorically effective and conventional use of language.
7. Collaborate actively in a writing community.
This course has been identified as a Universal General Education Transfer Component (UGETC) course under the North Carolina Comprehensive Articulation Agreement.

ENG 112 Writing/Research in the Disc (3 Credit Hours)

ENG 114 Professional Research & Reporting (3 Credit Hours)

ENG 231 American Literature I (3 Credit Hours)

Competencies
Student Learning Outcomes
1. Describe, analyze, interpret and evaluate features of literary texts in several genres, applying appropriate literary and cultural terms.
2. Critically analyze and interpret American literature from its beginnings to 1865 within historical and cultural contexts.
3. Write critical essays about American literature that integrate primary and secondary sources using MLA documentation and standard academic written conventions.
This course has been identified as a Universal General Education Transfer Component (UGETC) course under the North Carolina Comprehensive Articulation Agreement.

ENG 232 American Literature II (3 Credit Hours)

Competencies
1. Describe, analyze, interpret, and evaluate features of literary texts in several genres, applying appropriate literary and cultural terms.
2. Critically analyze and interpret American literature from 1865 to the present within historical and cultural contexts.
3. Write critical essays about American literature that integrate primary and secondary sources using MLA documentation and standard academic written conventions.
This course has been identified as a Universal General Education Transfer Component (UGETC) course under the North Carolina Comprehensive Articulation Agreement.

ENG 241 British Literature I (3 Credit Hours)

ENG 242 British Literature II (3 Credit Hours)

FIP 120 Intro to Fire Protection (3 Credit Hours)

Competencies
Student Learning Outcomes
1. Illustrate and explain the history and culture of the fire service.
2. Discuss and describe the scope, purpose, and organizational structure of fire and emergency services.
3. Identify protection and emergency-service careers in both the public and private sector.
4. Describe the importance of wellness and fitness as it relates to emergency services.
5. Identify the primary responsibilities of fire prevention personnel including: code enforcement, public information, and public and private fire protection systems.

FIP 124 Fire Prevention & Public Ed (3 Credit Hours)

Competencies
Student Learning Outcomes
1. Describe the relationship of fire prevention as it relates to the community.
2. Demonstrate an educational program for delivery to a defined audience.
3. Demonstrate the ability to gather research about fire deaths in the United States and knowledge of how fire prevention impacts this data.
4. Describe inspection practices and procedures.
5. Define the laws, rules, regulations, and codes and identify those relevant to fire prevention of the authority having jurisdictions.

FIP 128 Detection & Investigation (3 Credit Hours)

Competencies
Student Learning Outcomes
1. Identify key case law decisions that have affected fire investigations.
2. Describe proper evidence collection.
3. Describe proper courtroom procedures
4. Explain the basic elements of fire dynamics and how they affect cause determination.
5. Present evidence and findings from an arson scene to a defined audience.

FIP 132 Building Construction (3 Credit Hours)

Competencies
Student Learning Outcomes
1. Describe building construction as it relates to fire fighter safety, building codes, fire prevention, code enforcement, firefighting strategy and tactics.
2. Analyze the hazards and tactical considerations associated with given types of building construction.
3. Explain the correlation of loads and stresses that are placed on buildings during fires and fire suppression activities.
4. Identify the indicators of potential structural failure as they relate to firefighter safety.
5. Classify major types of building construction according to materials and methods used.

FIP 136 Inspections & Codes (3 Credit Hours)

Competencies
Student Learning Outcomes
1. Describe the relationship of fire and building codes as they relate to a community.
2. Define the elements of a fire inspection program including application and the interpretation of codes, standards, and recommended practices.
3. Demonstrate an understanding of the code adoption process and the basis for each jurisdiction to enact such codes and regulations.
4. Demonstrate the ability to conduct a fire code compliance inspection and produce a written report.
5. Review a building drawing and identify fire systems.

FIP 140 Industrial Fire Protection (3 Credit Hours)

Competencies
Student Learning Outcomes
1. Describe applicable health and safety standards as they relate to industrial fire protection.
2. Develop a loss prevention program.
3. Demonstrate knowledge of regulations and agencies that impact fire protection in industrial facilities.
4. Demonstrate the ability to develop and evaluate a plan for an industrial building.
5. Demonstrate knowledge of an organization and use of a fire brigade.

FIP 146 Fire Protection Systems (4 Credit Hours)

Competencies
Student Learning Outcomes
1. Identify the various types of automatic extinguishing systems.
2. Describe the proper procedure to maintain an extinguishing system.
3. Determine the design requirements for sprinklers and standpipes in a designated building.
4. Demonstrate a working knowledge of various sprinklers and alarm systems.
5. Define the proper application and maintenance of various sprinklers and alarm systems.

FIP 152 Fire Protection Law (3 Credit Hours)

Competencies
Student Learning Outcomes
1. Define and describe the different types of laws within various levels of government.
2. Explain the purpose of national codes and standards.
3. Define and describe liability and negligence as it applies to fire and emergency services.
4. Discuss applicable court decisions influencing emergency services.
5. Explain current and emerging legal issues affecting emergency service delivery.

FIP 220 Fire Fighting Strategies (3 Credit Hours)

Competencies
Student Learning Outcomes
1. Identify and define the main functions within the National Incident Management System (NIMS) and how they interrelate during an incident.
2. Explain how pre-incident plan information is gathered using pre-formatted forms and methods for storing and retrieving pre-plan information.
3. Compare construction methods in terms of structural stability, fire extension, and fuel contribution
4. Describe the 16 Firefighter Life Safety Initiatives and apply them to fire department operations.
5. Describe and compare offensive, defensive, and transitional fire attack methods for appropriate conditions and scenarios.

FIP 221 Adv Fire Fighting Strat (3 Credit Hours)

Competencies
Student Learning Outcomes
1. Describe the relationship between the fire department, local/state government, and the federal government in large scale and extended duration incidents requiring state and federal assistance or involvement.
2. Explain strategic goals and tactical objectives for multi-family, commercial, and industrial/manufacturing fire incidents involving multiple agencies.
3. Discuss operational considerations for special situations and occupancies including hotels, high rise structures, health care facilities, and public assembly/school buildings.
4. Identify operational considerations for hazardous materials and terrorism incidents, and identify roles and responsibilities of responders from various agencies.

FIP 224 Fire Instructor I & II (4 Credit Hours)

Competencies
Student Learning Outcomes
1. Describe the skills and abilities needed to train others in the fire service.
2. Develop a lesson plan for a selected topic.
3. Demonstrate an educational program for delivery to a defined audience.
4. Identify safety considerations in various fire safety training scenarios and make appropriate provisions for a safe learning environment.
5. Demonstrate utilization of different types of media in an educational environment.

FIP 226 Fire Officer I & II (4 Credit Hours)

Competencies
Student Learning Outcomes
1. Describe the roles and responsibilities of an officer in the fire service.
2. Develop a budget.
3. Demonstrate knowledge of supervisory and management skills within the fire service.
4. Demonstrate the ability to apply organizational guidelines and policies for given incident and non-incident situations.
5. Explain the importance of leading and motivating individuals and others as a company or unit.

FIP 228 Local Govt Finance (3 Credit Hours)

Competencies
Student Learning Outcomes
1. Define the types of budgets and typical usage for each type.
2. Define and describe the different types of revenue fire departments receive including the advantages and disadvantages of each.
3. Develop and present a budget for a capital outlay.
4. Prepare a budget and written justification for the budget for presentation.
5. Define basic finance and budgeting principles in relation to governmental agencies.

FIP 230 Chem of Hazardous Mat I (5 Credit Hours)

Competencies
Student Learning Outcomes
1. Describe the relationship between the elements listed in the periodical table and fire.
2. Develop a response plan for a hazardous materials incident.
3. Demonstrate knowledge of the chemical behavior of hazardous materials.
4. Describe how NFPA standard 1072 affects operations at an incident.

FIP 232 Hydraulics & Water Dist (3 Credit Hours)

Competencies
Student Learning Outcomes
1. Describe flow of water through various appliances.
2. Describe pumping system.
3. Demonstrate the ability to perform hydraulic calculations.
4. Demonstrate knowledge of a water distribution system.

FIP 240 Fire Service Supervision (3 Credit Hours)

Competencies
Student Learning Outcomes
1. Describe the importance and necessity of supervisory skills and practices within the fire protection and emergency services.
2. Develop disciplinary action plan.
3. Demonstrate the process for dealing with a grievance.
4. Demonstrate an understanding of the roles and responsibilities of effective fire service supervision.
5. Administer an employee performance evaluation.

FIP 252 Apparatus Spec & Purch (3 Credit Hours)

Competencies
Student Learning Outcomes
1. Develop an apparatus specification sheet.
2. Demonstrate knowledge of bidding processes for capital expenditures.
3. Demonstrate knowledge of the budgeting process as it relates to capital outlays.
4. Discuss why safety must be a primary consideration in the design of the apparatus and equipment.
5. Develop a proposal to stakeholders for approval of apparatus purchase.

FIP 256 Munic Public Relations (3 Credit Hours)

Competencies
Student Learning Outcomes
1. Describe the relationship between the media and the fire service.
2. Develop a press release for a specified incident.
3. Demonstrate knowledge of the public information officer’s responsibilities.
4. Demonstrate the ability to manage a press conference.
5. Discuss the use and management of social media in fire and emergency service organizations.

FIP 276 Managing Fire Services (3 Credit Hours)

Competencies
Student Learning Outcomes
1. Define the standards of efficiency and optimization.
2. Define the framework of management and planning in the fire service.
3. Develop management policies and plans for fire prevention and investigation practices.
4. Explain the concepts of human resource management of public organizations.
5. Explain how modern fire services function as all-hazards organizations.

FRE 111 Elementary French I (3 Credit Hours)

FRE 112 Elementary French II (3 Credit Hours)

FRE 211 Intermediate French I (3 Credit Hours)

GEL 111 Geology (4 Credit Hours)

Competencies
1. Explain fundamental geologic concepts including earth structure, plate tectonics, rocks and minerals, rock cycle, crustal deformation, surficial processes, earth resources and geohazards.
2. Apply the basic methods of scientific inquiry in the context of geology.
3. Recognize and quantify the operation of Earth system processes over geologic and human timescales and over local, regional and global spatial scales.
4. Manipulate, interpret and construct visualizations of geologic data using maps, graphs, and contemporary technology.
5. Demonstrate an appreciation for the societal relevance of geology and the impact of humans on the earth system.
This course has been identified as a Universal General Education Transfer Component (UGETC) course under the North Carolina Comprehensive Articulation Agreement.

HEA 110 Personal Health/Wellness (3 Credit Hours)