Program Outcomes and Student Achievement

Program Outcomes

Fire Science AAS

Program Mission: To provide students with the necessary skills, knowledge and abilities to enter the fire service or to increase skills, knowledge and abilities for those already employed as a firefighter.

Upon successful completion of the program, students will be able to:

Use terminology, concepts, principles, and theories of the disciplines and professions that comprise fire protection agencies.
Demonstrate safe, standards-based, basic and essential firefighter skills.
Analyze and apply measures to safely resolve problems in areas of fire suppression, hazardous materials, rescue situations, fire prevention, and disaster management.
Evaluate various fire behavior components in the structure and wildland fire environment.
Model the principles of teamwork, professional conduct, ethics, and leadership as they relate to management, respect, relating to others, and unity of effort in the fire service.

Female fire science student smiling in firefighter bibs in front of a fire truck

COCC's Fire Science program measures student achievement of program outcomes by students successfully passing each program requirement course. Within each course students are given a course summative exam, simulation and scenario exercises, lab skills, in addition to weekly in class participation and homework.

COCC's Institutional Effectiveness department tracks course completions for each program within the college. Interested parties can find more information on COCC's Institutional Effectiveness webpage.