Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Resilience

Catalog description

This course provides students instruction and practical strategies to develop the core competencies of basic emergency preparedness. Natural hazards, technological hazards, and man-made threats will be examined through the lens of everyday emergencies and disasters. Emphasis is placed on community preparedness by addressing hazard and threat awareness, prevention, response, recovery and mitigation. Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer