|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Course Criteria
Add courses to your favorites to save, share, and find your best transfer school.
-
0.00 Credits
This class will provide fundamental information relating to the history of the fi re service including formation, organization and operation of a fi re prevention bureau. The course will include the recognition of hazards, their corrections and the relationship of prevention measures to built-in fi re protection systems. Students will utilize given formulas to determine adequate water supplies for required fi re fl ows and property preplans. Codes and standards will be discussed and used to help understand their relations to the behavior of fi re. Topics of fi re behavior will include combustion, chemistry, fl ames, transmission, burning, and ignition. The latter part of the course will touch on explosions including detonation, defl agration, vapor clouds, and BLEVE's. Prerequisite: None STCW: None
-
0.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to disaster recovery planning and concepts of business continuity; recovery of information and communication systems; existing and evolving organizations and their initiatives to improve disaster recovery. Topics covered are public/private partnerships in community reconstruction and recovery; logistics, and reestablishing communications. Methods of integrating medical, public health, and psychological processes into consequence management programs will be developed. Prerequisite: EM-4111 STCW: None
-
0.00 Credits
Investigate the nature of hazard, risk and crisis. Examines current theories as well as successful strategies for risk and crisis communication. The nature of hazard, risk, crisis. There will be a review of the anatomy of effective communication; audience analysis; problem-solving process; compliance-seeking; consensus-building and confl ict management. Other topics include current sociological and psychological models for communication; overcoming communication barriers; the history of risk communication (CERCLA and the NPL, SARA and mandated public participation in environmental remediation, current successful strategies of risk communication) and the history of crisis communication (FEMA mitigation, preparedness, and response and recovery (MPRR)). The communication approaches and logistics (proactive and reactive) in emergency and disaster; sociological and psychological perceptions of crises-public, managers, workers; and public participation in MPRR will also be covered. Prerequisite: EM-3121, EM-2212 STCW: None
-
0.00 Credits
This course covers the role of information and information technology in crisis and response management, by determining disaster and crisis information requirements: information technologies as applied to a crisis, disaster, and emergency management will be developed by means of case studies and practical applications modeled on simulators. Prerequisite: EM-2212, SM-2244, MS0913 STCW: None
-
0.00 Credits
In this course, students will use techniques developed in previous courses to participate in an exercise involving an emergency management scenario. This course will also include guest speakers presenting current topics in emergency management in a seminar format and the preparation of a signifi cant research paper on an emergency management topic approved by the instructor. Prerequisite: Senior academic status STCW: None
-
6.00 Credits
The co-op experience requires a student to work approximately eight weeks, typically during January and February, in industry for academic credit. The student will be exposed to "real life" experiences throughthese co-ops. He/she will gain fi rsthand knowledge of practices and technology presently being used today by the facilities professional. The co-op requires a technical report to be submitted at the conclusion of the experience. Also required is an evaluation of the supervisor. Students may participate in more than three co-ops, if their schedule permits. Emergency Management/Homeland Security students are encouraged to participate during the summer months in co-ops for extra academic credit and experience. Prerequisite: None STCW: None
-
0.00 Credits
Organizational issues lie at the core of operational effectiveness in emergency management. Management of individuals, teams, and organizations in the environment of government strata and public exigency requires a keen understanding of the principles of leadership, vision, and motivation under stressful circumstances. Students will study leadership, group dynamics, motivation, power, ethics, and organizational structure and change, recognizing that the effective emergency manager needs both knowledge and skills in organizational behavior. This course provides, in executive format, extensive and intense instruction in organizational behavior in the post-9/11, post-Katrina world. Prerequisite: Graduate status STCW: None
-
0.00 Credits
In this course, students will begin with a review of the role of law in emergency management, the history of law and emergency management, the recent legislation that has changed the approach to emergency management in the U.S., specifi cally all-hazards approach to emergency management utilizing a national incident management system. Next, students will explore the specifi c bases and nature of governmental authority to prepare and respond to, recovery from, and mitigate the different hazards and disasters. As part of this examination, students will address the effects of government authority on the rights of individuals and their property. Students will further analyze the legal limits and liabilities that stem from the exercise of governmental authority, as well the liability issues faced by the private sector in disaster situations. Included in the course is a review of Constitutional powers and limits, the U.S. legal system, and the authorities and limits on administrative agencies which all relate to emergency management. Case studies will include topics in: emergency management and protection of the environment, emergency management and protection of the public health, and the regulatory programs for federal disaster assistance. Prerequisite: Graduate Status STCW: None
-
0.00 Credits
This course develops an understanding of the key information resources required for emergency managers. Students will consider issues associated with managing the use of information technology and its impact upon improving organizational emergency management effectiveness, specifi cally addressing available hazardous materials, natural and technological hazards models and geographic information systems (GIS) software. Students will explore the concepts of GIS using MARPLOT and ArcGIS. Subsequent to the GIS introduction the student will be exposed to applications such as the CAMEO system, which uses MARPLOT as a base, and HAZUS, HPAC, and CATS, each of which uses ArcGIS as a base. Students will also venture into some analysis of large tables using EXCEL. Power Point Presentations, delivered for each concept, which can be used as a reference for laboratories and homework assignments. Prerequisite: Graduate status STCW: None
-
0.00 Credits
The overall goal of this course is to contribute to the reduction of the growing toll of disasters in the United States (deaths and injuries, property loss, environmental degradation, etc.) by providing an understanding of a process that provides a framework that may be applied at all levels of communities and governments. This hazards risk management process can be used to identify, analyze, consider, implement and monitor a wide range of measures that can contribute to the public well-being. The hazards risk management process, as described and applied in this course, provides a general philosophy, description, and use of specifi c tools and methods that can be utilized to manage the risk associated with the hazards facing a community. Prerequisite: Graduate status STCW: None
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Privacy Statement
|
Terms of Use
|
Institutional Membership Information
|
About AcademyOne
Copyright 2006 - 2024 AcademyOne, Inc.
|
|
|