2024-2025 Pierce College Catalog 
    
    Aug 01, 2024  
2024-2025 Pierce College Catalog
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EM 240 Emergency Management Work-Based Learning (4 credits)



Prerequisite EM 249 with at least a 2.0 grade and department approval

Course Description
Provides students practical experience in emergency management. Students learn to work within time constraints and are exposed to appropriate workplace behaviors, while applying core skills they have learned in the program.

Course Content
A. On-the-job training 
B. Agency organizational environment/culture 
C. Problem solving techniques for the workplace 
D. Working with people from diverse backgrounds

Student Outcomes
  1. Obtain emergency management work experience through paid employment or volunteering.  
  2. Set workplace learning objectives.
  3. Meet workplace learning objectives. 


Degree Outcomes
Program Outcomes:   

  • Use modern workplace technology to complete individual and group projects, demonstrating leadership and followership skills. 

  • Demonstrate professional ethics, including the values of integrity, respect, and cultural awareness. 

Core Abilities Outcomes:    

Effective Communication 

Graduates will be able to craft and exchange ideas and information in a variety of situations, in response to audience, context, purpose, and motivation. 

Global Citizenship 

Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable and equitable systems. 

Lecture Contact Hours 10
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 90
Total Contact Hours 100

Potential Methods
Self Evaluation
Supervisory Evaluation
Journaling



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