Course

Course Summary
Credit Type:
Course
ACE ID:
NEMI-0191
Organization's ID:
ELK0102
Organization:
National Emergency Training Center (EMI)
Location:
Classroom-based
Length:
3 days (24 hours)
Dates Offered:
Credit Recommendation & Competencies
Level Credits (SH) Subject
Lower-Division Baccalaureate 1 basic sciences
Description

Objective:

The course objective is to understand how scientific principles can be used before, during, and after a disaster, including a basic understanding of scientific terminology as it applies to Emergency Management.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Describe how scientific understanding can help with managing disaster related risks
  • Indicate how climatological principles and processes influence natural hazards, including severe storms, tornadoes, and hurricanes
  • Indicate the scientific basis chemical hazards and their impact on society
  • Indicate the scientific basis for explosives and their impact on society
  • Recognize the role of and sources of information about emerging science and technology hazards in disaster planning
  • Indicate the scientific basis for explosive, radiological, and nuclear hazards and their impact on society
  • Indicate how earth science principles and processes influence volcanic eruptions
  • Indicate how biological principles and processes influence health emergencies and bioterrorism and their impact on society
  • Recognize basic chemical principles and processes, potential hazards related to flammable, oxidizing, toxic, and corrosive materials, and their impact on society
  • Indicate the relationship between science and our understanding of disasters
  • Indicate how climatological principles and processes influence natural hazards, including nor’easters, winter storms, extreme temperatures, wildfires, and droughts
  • Indicate how earth science principles and processes influence floods
  • Indicate how scientific understanding can improve emergency preparedness
  • Indicate how climatological principles and processes influence ground failures
  • Describe the impact of human-induced/technological hazards and disaster risk management
  • Indicate the scientific basis for radiation hazards and their impact on society

General Topics:

  • Science supports risk
  • Risk and how it applies to emergency management
  • Validity and credibility of science
  • Scales of Weather
  • Factors Affecting Weather
  • Climate Factors
  • Long Term Trends
  • Bomb Cyclone
  • Extreme Temperature Predictions
  • Wildfires
  • Flood Types
  • Geology/Earth Basics
Instruction & Assessment

Instructional Strategies:

  • Audio Visual Materials
  • Case Studies
  • Classroom Exercise
  • Discussion
  • Learner Presentations
  • Lectures
  • Practical Exercises

Methods of Assessment:

  • Examinations

Minimum Passing Score:

75%
Supplemental Materials