Emergency Disaster MGMT

3 Credits · Level: Graduate

This course examines current and proposed concepts, strategies and practices for responding to and recovering from severe disasters that befall the United States. In doing so, the course will answer the vexing question as to why the United States, having experienced such a wide variety of disaster and terrorism events throughout its history, still today seems prepared for some, but woefully underprepared for others. Students will review and assess the theory, strategies, tools, and techniques of response and recovery against a wide variety of natural, technological and terrorist events from the federal, state, local, private, and non-profit sector perspectives. The course will also examine the impacts severe disasters have on the economy, populations, and institutions. Both successes and failures in response and recovery will be examined, with the goal of providing the student a set of concepts and techniques for analyzing and understanding this important subject matter, its impacts on the nation, and on the individuals that reside in it.