EM 470 Emergency Management Capstone (5 credits)

1. Articulate an emergency management problem based on a real-life scenario.
2. Design one or more solutions to an emergency management problem integrating all applicable program knowledge.
3. Identify a preferred solution to an emergency management problem, based on time and available resources.
4. Apply project management skills to implement the preferred solution.
5. Integrate principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion into the chosen solution.
6. Present final solution both orally and in writing.

Core Abilities:

Critical, Creative and Reflective Thinking

Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.

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
Participation in Class Activities
Discussion Board
Individual Assignments
Individual Projects/Research
Group Projects/Research
Written Plans and Reports
Oral presentations