EM 121 Planning for Tribal Emergency Management (3 credits)
Prerequisite EM 102 or EM 105 or instructor permission.
Course Description
Introduction to fundamental concepts, systems, and processes that guide and support effective emergency management planning in Indian Country, including the history and rationale behind planning.
Course Content
Introduction to Tribal Emergency Management Planning
Federal Policies, Plans, and Processes that Influence Tribal Emergency Management
Tribal Mitigation Plans
Tribal COOP/COG Plans
Tribal Response Plans
Tribal Recovery Plans
Special Considerations in Tribal Emergency Management Planning
Student Outcomes
-
Define the role of plans and planning within the emergency management profession, and the concepts and principles that guide the planning process.
-
Identify federal policies, plans, and processes that influence tribal emergency management and planning, including the historical/political relationships between government and tribal communities.
-
Outline the purpose and primary components of foundational emergency management plans that are important in tribal emergency management programs (mitigation, COOP/COG, response, and recovery).
-
Describe the special considerations including vulnerable populations and community values that must be incorporated in plan development.
Degree 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. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
Program Outcomes:
Demonstrate the ability to organize Tribal assets for effective disaster planning, mitigation, response, and recovery.
Lecture Contact Hours 30
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 30
Potential Methods
Participation in Class Activities
Discussion Board
Exams and Quizzes
Individual Projects
Written Paper
Add to Portfolio (opens a new window)
|
