EM 310 Emergency Management Program Administration (5 credits)
Prerequisite Current enrollment in the Bachelor of Applied Science in Emergency Management program.
Course Description
The course provides an overview of program administration for emergency management. Students will create and administer complex individual and team-based emergency management projects common in the public, private, and non-profit sectors.
Course Content
Holistic Program Components for Emergency Management
Leveraging Human Motivation and Group Dynamics to Achieve Emergency Management Program Goals
Using Public Education/Outreach Programs to Increase Disaster Preparedness & Resiliency
Using Quality Assurance Documents to Implement Change
Creating Highly Structured Emergency Management Project Documents
Using Inclusive Whole Community Practices to Define and Broaden a Project’s Community of Interest
Best Practices and Tools for Program Communication
Student Outcomes
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Apply common emergency management administrative practices to create proposals, budgets, and project documents for public, non-profit, and private sector lines of effort.
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Research communities to ensure Whole Community representation and ongoing engagement, particularly with historically underserved populations.
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Demonstrate leadership, followership, and essential communications skills in emergency management.
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Demonstrate use of tools, applications, and complex platforms, including artificial intelligence (AI), to accomplish emergency management program goals.
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.
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.
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.
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
Witten project
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