Emergency and Disaster Communi

3 Credits · Level: Graduate

During a natural disaster, mass terror, or another catastrophic event, effective communication is key to ensuring stakeholders get the most accurate information quickly and efficiently and to guide crisis response. This said, the heightened reaction times and immediacy to resolve such events can create barriers between activated teams, especially emergency disaster management technicians and communication professionals. Through these interdisciplinary, team-taught course students will develop the necessary skills to craft, execute, and facilitate messaging during high-stress and high-impact events that affect human life. Students can expect to gain leadership skills that will strengthen and streamline communication between key emergency players, practice role playing emergency scenarios, draft critical documents, and work with the media to ensure both speed and accuracy. This will provide the opportunity for students to understand traditional gaps in the crisis communication management and provide them the techniques to minimize these crisis management inhibiting challenges.