Course

Credit Type:
Course
ACE ID:
NEMI-0257
Version:
3
Organization's ID:
E0684
Location:
Classroom-based
Length:
4 days
Minimum Passing Score:
75
ACE Credit Recommendation Period:
Credit Recommendation & Competencies
Level Credits (SH) Subject
Lower-Division Baccalaureate 2 Emergency Management
Description

Objective:

The course objective is to help cohort members reshape and reconsider essential questions, better comprehend current challenges, and consider effective evidence-based strategies and policies to professionalize the emergency management field and equip future leaders to foster more resilient communities. The specific competencies addressed in this course are scientific models and simulations; geography and disasters; sociocultural considerations; and, emerging technology. In addition, work on the capstone project will continue and project teams will brief the cohort on their progress.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Validate the effectiveness of communicating the outcomes of decisions based on scientific models and simulations that influence policy and practical processes in risk and vulnerability reduction
  • Generate arguments for how seeking and testing patterns, relationships, and connections between social, built, and physical environments impacts changes in disaster risk evaluation
  • Conduct and interpret research on how sociocultural determinants affect the integration of disaster risk reduction goals and adaptive capacity building
  • Evaluate human factors in utilizing technical systems and technology partners to augment existing practices or produce new ones given the challenging operating environment
  • Illustrate understanding of course competencies by briefing a comprehensive update of capstone project topics and progress to course management team and other cohort members
  • Deliberate and debate executive level issues in emergency management, policy and doctrine changes, and updates on current events

General Topics:

  • Decision-making models
  • Simulations
  • Geography
  • Disasters
  • Hazards
  • GIS
  • Human experience
  • Human behaviors
  • Society and culture
  • Technology
  • Capstone projects
  • Briefings
Instruction & Assessment

Instructional Strategies:

  • Classroom Exercise
  • Discussion
  • Lectures

Methods of Assessment:

  • Performance Rubrics (Checklists)
  • Presentations
Supplemental Materials
Equivalencies

Other offerings from National Disaster and Emergency Management University (NDEMU)