PADM 3610 - Personnel Management for the Fire Service (3):  Personnel practices and management procedures; manpower planning, labor relations recruitment, selection, testing, performance appraisals, classification, motivation, politics, and management.

PADM 3611 - Disaster and Fire Defense Planning (3): Concepts and principles of community risk assessment, regional and cooperative procedures and plans; relationship of structural, climatic and topographical variables to group fires, conflagrations, and natural disasters; pre- and post-occurrence factors; communications, planning, organizing, coordination, command and logistics.

PADM 3612 - Fire Prevention Organization and Management (3): Examines and evaluates techniques, procedures, programs and agencies involved with fire prevention; public and private fire prevention functions, licenses, permits, zoning, legal aspects, inspection, investigations, planning, arson, and incendiary analysis.

PADM 3613 - Advanced Fire Administration (3): Overview of organization and management in modern fire service; management of equipment and personnel, fire department functions, planning, resource development, labor relations.

PADM 3614 - Political and Legal Foundation of Fire Protection (3): Legal basis for police power of government related to public safety; legal limitations and responsibility; liability of fire prevention organization and personnel; review of judicial decisions.

PADM 3615 - The Community and The Fire Threat (3): Sociological, economic and political characteristics of communities and their influence on fire problems; how to study community profiles and structures with consideration of economic, geographic, and sociological variables of fire threat; examination of functional basis of community, diverse social roles of community agencies; study of fire services as complex organizations in community.