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2022-2023 Academic Catalog 
    
2022-2023 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Emergency Response Management, B.S.


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As our world becomes increasingly more volatile, the demand for emergency response management professionals continues to grow. Professionals in this field work to protect life and property and to ensure the most complete disaster recovery possible. Our program in Emergency Response Management prepares students for careers in the public sector in a variety of agencies in local, state or federal government, as well as nonprofit and private organizations involved in emergency planning, mitigation, response, recovery and prevention.

Student Learning Outcomes

  1. Graduates will be able to identify and define areas of emergency management responsibility including mitigation opportunities, planning, training, warning, evacuation, sheltering, damage assessment, debris removal, donation management, volunteer management, public information, federal assistance programs and recovery programs.
  2. Graduates will be able to apply emergency management processes and methodologies including hazard identification, threat analysis and vulnerability assessment.
  3. Graduates will be able to explain effective approaches to prevention, planning, mitigation, response and recovery.
  4. Graduates will be able to explain the techniques for information gathering and sharing, intelligence analysis, preparation for mass disasters, preemption of terrorism and the employment of an Incident Command System under the National Incident Management System.
  5. Graduates will be able to identify and implement basic financial concepts and tools to include budgeting and management of grant applications.

General Education Core


***Please note, if courses are duplicated between general education and the major, approved electives increase by the number of credits duplicated.***

How to Communicate


Choose one course (at least 3 credits) from each building block:

How to Analyze


Choose one course (at least 3 credits) from each building block:

Qualitative Analysis


Total Credits Required: 9


How to Lead


Choose one course (at least 3 credits) from each building block:

Lead Self


Lead Others


Lead Globally


Total Credits Required: 9


Global Issues Problem Solving Seminar


Total Credits Required: 3


Total Credits Required: 30


Total Credits Required: 60


Approved Electives: 30 Credits


Preparatory Core 1


Total Credits Required: 120


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