Bachelor's Capstone in Emergency Management

Catalog description

This course is designed as the culminating experience of the bachelor's degree program in emergency management. This course consists of a series of assignments that integrate concepts from the emergency management curricula. The assignments are designed to test application and critical thinking skills as you work through fact-based scenarios and analyze issues affecting contemporary practice. This course provides a synthesis of emergency and disaster management concepts and perspectives related to evaluating ethical, social, civic, cultural, and political issues having a direct impact on the discipline of emergency management and disaster planning services. The course evaluates the current and historical quantitative and qualitative research methods that are used to drive the application of emergency management related tasks, while also evaluating the use of technology to inform and influence operational, strategic, and tactical emergency management and disaster planning decisions. You will analyze social, cultural, behavioral, and economic characteristics influencing global emergency management and disaster planning along with learning how to develop a comprehensive program for operational, strategic, and tactical emergency management decisions and disaster management planning. You will examine the issues that deal with the social as well as individual psychological effects of emergency management and disaster planning and response.