EM 330 Risk Assessment and Preparedness (5 credits)
Prerequisite Current enrollment in the Bachelor of Applied Science in Emergency Management program.
Course Description
This course builds fundamental skills in risk identification, analysis, and evaluation within the context of emergency management and enables the creation of appropriate preparedness measures.
Course Content
1. Risk Assessment Theory
2. Organizational Roles/Whole Community
3. Risk Assessment Standards, Methods, and Tools
4. Risk Assessment’s role in preparedness systems
5. Global efforts for Disaster Risk Assessment and Reduction
6. Applying risk assessment tools to improve emergency management programs.
Student Outcomes
1. Articulate the impact of threats and hazards in the risk assessment process.
2. Develop hazard analyses and vulnerability assessments for organizations using various risk assessment standards, processes, and tools.
3. Produce a gap analysis for organizational/community resiliency.
4. Create an emergency management preparedness program informed by risk assessment analysis data and supported by national and international standards.
Degree Outcomes
Program Outcomes:
- Evaluate disaster risk in communities and organizations using current scientific, geographic, sociocultural, and technological knowledge, systems, and equipment.
- 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.
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
Participation in Class Activities
Discussion Board
Exams and Quizzes
Individual Assignments
Individual Projects/Research Paper Written Paper
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