EMHS 102 - Disaster Mitigation and Preparedness

Credits: 3

Description
This course is designed to introduce students to the process and practice of emergency planning. The course covers a range of strategies and skills that planners require to achieve a successful planning process for dealing with disasters in future time, and those that must be considered when planning for implementing the emergency plan at the time of disaster impact.

Student Learning Outcomes

Describe coordination of inter-agency emergency response to disasters.
Describe the benefits of operational continuity plans.
Create an evacuation plan for a given geographical area.
Evaluate the components of an effective evacuation plan.
Appraise the vulnerability of community sectors during and following a disaster incident.

Prerequisite: None
Corequisite: None

Graded: Letter Grade