This Degree is intended for: High school graduates longing to be specialized in the fire field and be a professional in this type of work.

Degree Description:

This program was designed to meet the growing needs of the Arab labor market for fire and emergency response personnel applying the international standards of fire fighter and safety personnel. This training program contains the basic skills such as English, mathematics, Arabic language, Islamic culture, using the computer applications and operating systems, also special skills in firefighting operations, chemistry of fire, hazardous materials (Awareness, Operations), fire fighter I skills, vehicle accident and confined space rescue, fire protection systems, building construction pre-fire planning duties, driver operator pumper, firefighting hydraulics science, fire inspector, technical investigator in fire accidents, firefighter II skills, fire training methods, fire services instructor, fire management, finally graduation task. The estimated time to complete the program of studying is 1776 hours, in addition to 360 of cooperative training hours.

Required Core Courses:

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 S/N CODE TITLE Credits Hours PREREQUISITE
1 ENGL101 General English Language 4
2 ISL101 Islamic culture -1 2
3 MAT121 Mathematics -1 3
4 PHY 101 General Physics 3
5 COM101 Introduction to Computer 3
6 ENGL177 Specialized English Language-1 4 ENGL101
7 MATH222 Mathematics -2 2 MAT121
8 RAB101 Arabic Language 2
9 COM102 Advanced Computer Applications 3 COM101
10 ENGL277 Specialized English Language-2 (Fire Terminology) 3 ENGL177
11 ISL102 Islamic culture -2 2 ISL101
12 ETH101 Professional Ethics and Communications Skills 2
SUB TOTAL CREDIT HOURS 33
Specialized Course Requirements
 S/N CODE TITLE CREDITS PREREQUISITE
1 EXT131 Fire Chemistry 2
2 EXT132 Hazardous Materials /Awareness 2
3 SAFE104 Vocational and industrial safety 3
4 EXT134 Firefighter Skills-I 2 EXT132
5 EXT136 Fire protection systems 3
6 EXT135 Car Accidents Rescue 3
7 EXT137 Plans of constructing buildings 3
8 EXT241 hazardous materials (operations) 4 EXT132
9 EXT242 Firefighting Vehicles Operator (Driver/Operator Pumper) 3 EXT134
10 EXT243 hydraulics Firefighting (Fire hydraulics) 3 MATH222
11 EXT244 Designing by Computer (Computer designs) 3 COM102
12 EXT245 Fire protection Inspector (Fire Inspector I) 4 EXT137
13 EXT246 Accidents Technical Investigator (Fire Investigator) 3 EXT134
14 EXT247 Firefighter Skills-II 4 EXT134
15 EXT248 Training methods 2 EXT245
16 EXT249 Firefighting Service Instructor (Fire Service Instructor I) 3 EXT247
17 EXT250 Firefighting Management (Fire Administration) 3
18 EXT251 Graduation Project 2
19 EXT299 Co-operative Training (Internship) 4
SUB TOTAL CREDIT HOURS 56
TOTAL CREDIT FOR A.A.S DEGREE 89

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