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Dec 21, 2024
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2020-2021 Catalog [PREVIOUS CATALOG YEAR]
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EMA 210 - Disaster Mitigation and Business Continuity
Description: Foresight and management to reduce losses due to disasters and catastrophic events. Bridging the gap between field response, research, planning, and management as well as disaster survival and avoidance by containing an event. Emphasis on the establishment and maintenance of a successful business continuity program.
Credits: 3
Lecture: 3
Course Content:
- Case studies
- Emergency management principles
- Crisis management
- Senior management
- Communications
- Recovery
- Government and the private sector
- Rules, regulations, and standards
- Future of emergency management
- Bridging the gap in disaster mitigation and business continuity
Learning Outcomes:
- Analyze case studies. (1)
- Identify project initiation and risk assessment measures. (2-4)
- Analyze business impact and continuity strategies along with emergency response team-training measures, supplies, and equipment needs. (2,3,6,9)
- Identify the need for a crisis management team. (2-4,7,8)
- Describe basic concepts for the senior manager. (3-5,8-10)
- Identify the steps of communicating and supporting a disaster avoidance program. (3-5,7)
- Ascertain the anatomy of crisis and the countermeasures needed in today's business world. (3,7,8)
- Discuss the requirements for recovery and the processes necessary to fulfill recovery efforts. (2,3,6,9)
- Articulate various rules of engagement for government and the private sector. (7,8)
- Identify rules, regulations, and standards applicable to disaster mitigation. (3,4,7,8)
- Evaluate measures for bridging the gap in disaster mitigation and business continuity. (3,7-10)
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