Most students in the University of Cincinnati Fire Science Department take coures in a distance format, turning in assignments via email and taking final exams in their home communities. But some prefer a face-to-face format for certain subjects. For those, the department offers residency courses.

A mini-residency is one course taught for four or five days. Residencies are collections of courses, say Statistics, a Humanities class and a fire core class, taught simultaneously at a convenient location.

UC's fire science students live across the eastern United States and beyond, so a convenient location can be Florida in the winter, campus in July, and suburbs of Detroit and Columbus in between.

SPRING RESIDENCY is tentatively planned for March 21-25. Stay tuned for details and confirmation of the dates.