EM 320 History and Evolution of Emergency Management (5 credits)
Prerequisite Current enrollment in the Bachelor of Applied Science in Emergency Management program.
Course Description
This course will use a review of historical disaster incidents to show how these events have influenced politics, science, economics, and other social structures, as well as how these social changes have driven the evolution of emergency management.
Course Content
Historical disasters
Current disasters in historical context
Data-Driven Risk Reduction & Resiliency Proposals
Policy Drivers: data vs. beliefs
Root-cause analysis
Abilities and limitations of emergency managers
Applying data to research
Student Outcomes
- Identify how specific disaster incidents have influenced social structures.
- Analyze how those social structures have driven the evolution of disaster policy.
- Evaluate current high-risk disaster areas with repetitive disaster damages.
- Create proposals that take advantage of this connection to drive disaster risk reduction policies and behaviors in high-risk areas.
Degree Outcomes
Program Outcomes:
· 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.
Core Abilities Outcomes
Information Literacy
Graduates will be critical users, creators, and disseminators of information by examining how information is created, valued, and influenced by power and privilege.
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.
Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50
Potential Methods
Discussion Boards
Multimedia projects
Group projects
Written project
Quizzes
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