Emergency Management/Homeland Security

This course will examine the common patterns that make up the disaster lifecycle across a spectrum of historical and current events. Vulnerability, hazards, risk, technology, human behavior, and community will be explored to identify how they contribute to or mitigate the impact of disaster on societies. Ethical considerations will be explored that influence all phases of the disaster lifecycle.

This course examines the issues and concepts of terrorism, weapons of mass destruction and organized crime relative to the development and establishment of Homeland Security.

This course will focus on the development and implementation of a physical security program and deterrents to terrorism utilizing a hazards analysis and vulnerability process.

This course provides a broad overview of the causes and "first responder" treatment of psychological trauma in both human caused and natural disasters.

This course will examine the Federal Government response to terrorism since the 9/11 terrorist attacks and how that response affects protecting the Homeland and the ethics of balancing security and civil liberty.

This course presents an overview of background and history of hazards, disasters and Emergency Management in the United States. It covers the birth of disaster response and identifies some of the early disasters that helped found the fundamentals of Emergency Management.

The course examines issues and concepts that make up the field of International and Domestic Terrorism. It will examine anti-terrorism and counter terrorism measures that are utilized and evolving to deal with this complex problem.

This course will discuss underlying risk assessment and analysis theory, and explore the key steps and actions that can be taken to manage risk inclusive of: studying and understanding the community or entity at risk.

This course will develop students comprehension of the systems utilized to prepare for, respond to, mitigate and recover from emergencies of all types and complexities. The course will cover the Incident Command System (ICS), National Incident Management System(NIMS) and Emergency Operations Center (EOC) functions in the modern emergency services.

This course will focus on the analysis of disaster events across a broad spectrum of causation, mitigation, response and recovery and their impacts on involved communities.