EM 357 Risk Communication (5 credits)

2. Identify stakeholders representing the whole community and their specific communication requirements

3. Apply proper risk communication theories to a selected audience and hazard

4. Demonstrate knowledge of appropriate emergency risk communication

5. Evaluate the implementation of risk communication methods in a given scenario.

Degree Outcomes
Program Outcomes:

· Design programs that use current principles, processes, procedures, decisions, and activities to engage the whole community and increase their capabilities throughout all disaster phases and mission areas.

· Apply effective multi-modal communication, critical thinking, and decision-making skills to emergency management environments.

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.

Intercultural Engagement

Graduates demonstrate self-efficacy in intercultural engagement to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion through reflections and expressions of cultural humility, empathy, and social and civic engagement and action. Further, graduates examine how identities/positionalities such as races, social classes, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, and cultures impact perceptions, actions, and the distribution of power and privilege in communities, systems, and institutions.

Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50

Potential Methods
A. Participation in Class Activities
B. Discussion Board
C. Exams and Quizzes
D. Individual Assignments
E. Individual Projects/Research Paper
F. Written paper