EM 360 Leadership in Emergency Management (5 credits)

1. Describe basic leadership styles and the effective use of each style given individual capabilities and situations. 

2. Analyze leadership theories and describe how to apply them to motivate yourself and others. 

3. Assess complex relationships between organizations with competing interests. 

4. Describe a change management model using data sets and metrics that support the process for planning, communicating, and implementing change. 

5. Demonstrate how effective leadership impacts an organization’s ability to coordinate across jurisdictions, agencies, public, non-profit, and private sectors to enhance the ability to prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from, and mitigate all hazards using the Whole Community approach. 
    

1. 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.
2. Analyze organizations using the systems theory of management to define outcomes, identify risk, and create performance measures in emergency management settings.
3. Critique historical and modern sociocultural constructs that have led to disparities in equity, diversity, and inclusion within the EM profession and delivery of EM programs to the whole community.
4. Apply effective multi-modal communication, critical thinking, and decision-making skills to emergency management environments.

Core Abilities Outcomes

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.

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
Exams and Quizzes
Individual Assignments
Individual Projects/Research Paper
Written paper