EM 105 Introduction to Tribal Emergency Management (5 credits)

1. Identify the essential elements of an effective Tribal Emergency Management program.
2. Identify the various roles and responsibilities of Emergency Management Professionals.
3. Describe the laws and policies that effectuate Tribal Emergency Management.
4. Describe Hazard Mitigation requirements and Techniques.
5. Describe the Disaster Declaration Process as applicable to federally recognized Native American Tribes.

1. Demonstrate knowledge of the phases of disaster and the mission areas of emergency management and how they affect a Tribal emergency management program. 
2. Identify relevant stakeholders in Tribal emergency management in order to accurately understand their needs and communicate with them. 
3. Explain political and legal processes and how they influence Tribal emergency management policy. 
4. Demonstrate the ability to organize Tribal assets for effective disaster planning, mitigation, response, and recovery. 

Core Abilities Outcomes

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.