2020-2021 Catalog [PREVIOUS CATALOG YEAR]
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EMA 102 - Emergency Planning
Description: Purpose and scope of emergency planning including an overview of the plan in practice, specialized planning, reconstruction planning, emergency management training, and regulatory requirements.
Credits: 3
Lecture: 3
Course Content:
- Aims, purpose and scope of emergency planning
- Making and using maps
- Analytical techniques
- The emergency response plan and its activation
- The emergency plan in practice
- Specialized planning
- Reconstruction planning
- Training
- Regulatory requirements
Learning Outcomes:
- Identify short-and long-term planning requirements. (1,5-7,9)
- Discuss choices of methodology. (3,8)
- Utilize cartographic techniques. (2,3)
- Identify the importance of modeling, risk analysis, loss estimation, resource analysis, general and organizational systems analysis, field exercises, and the use of information technology. (1,2,5,6,8)
- Explain the process of planning, dissemination, testing and revision of the plan and integration of plans in theory and practice. (4,5,8)
- Identify management styles, alert procedures, warnings, and evacuation. (1,2,4,5)
- Explain the need for search and rescue, communications, transportation, engineering, shelter, emergency food programs, and the care of vulnerable and secure groups. (1,3-5,9)
- Describe the planning and need for integration of various elements of emergencies including: medical and psychiatric needs, veterinary plans, plans for schools, crowds, industries and tourism, as well as the special requirements of libraries and archives, mass media, fine art and architecture. (1,2,5,6,8,9)
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