EM 480 Community Disaster Recovery & Resilience (5 credits)
Prerequisite Current enrollment in the Bachelor of Applied Science in Emergency Management program.
Course Description
This course will introduce students to the recovery mission area and the concept of community and organizational resiliency. Students will synthesize new information on these topics while building on concepts and skills from previous courses.
Course Content
A. Recovery, Resiliency, & Mitigation (Phases/Timeline, Workgroup)
B. FEMA Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources (CIKR), Lifelines, Data Sources/GIS
C. National Disaster Recovery Framework (NDRF), Recovery Support Functions (RSFs), & Federal Interagency Operational Plans (FIOPs)
D. Resiliency Guidance Documents
E. Social Capital
F. Economics & Creative Destruction
G. Intersection with other Planning Initiatives (Economic Development, Smart Growth, and comprehensive Planning
H. Politics of Recovery
I. Funding Initiatives (Grants, Public/Private Partnerships)
J. Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice
Student Outcomes
1. Analyze the recovery mission area, the concept of disaster resiliency, and the guidance documents and models that inform it.
2. Evaluate how economics and development are impacted by disasters.
3. Analyze how social factors impact disaster recovery and resilience.
4. Create a disaster recovery or resilience plan for a community or organization.
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.
· Analyze organizations using the systems theory of management to define outcomes, identify risk, and create performance measures in emergency management settings.
Core Abilities Outcome
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
Asynchronous lectures
Discussion Boards
Quizzes/exams
Group project
Individual writing project
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