EMH 490 - Emergency Planning Project

3 Credits

This course is the culmination of the EMH program and is divided into two phases. Students will assume the role of an emergency management or homeland security administrator. Working with the instructor, the student will choose a crisis or disaster scenario, such as a large scale weather event that is due to hit your jurisdiction; the receipt of credible intelligence that a terrorist attack is imminent within your jurisdiction; or that a pandemic health crisis is migrating toward your jurisdiction. As an administrator, you have been tasked by the executive of your organization to prepare plans to mitigate, prepare for, respond to and recover from the specific incident. Communication and collaboration with stakeholders have been identified as a key objective. Phase I involves the student researching the issue, developing plans and alternative plans, and preparing to request funding to implement the plans. Phase II involves the student preparing a formal presentation to be delivered to the organization's executive level management team in which the student must demonstrate a mastery of the issue and present a well-reasoned and defensible implementation of the plans for their assigned scenario.
Prerequisites: EMH 101, EMH 201, EMH 301.