MOS 6801 - Emergency Management

Description

Focuses on the evolution of emergency management and the role of the federal government over the last 110 years. Students investigate Hurricane Katrina to identify the breakdown of response efforts that resulted in the reconstruction of federal policies and procedures. Finally, students study major disasters since Hurricane Katrina to assess present and future government response capabilities to a major disaster.

Outcomes

1. Analyze disasters and the evolution of emergency management from 1900 to present time.
2. Examine the collaboration between multiple emergency management stakeholders in response to a focusing event.
3. Assess emergency management capabilities with regard to major disasters that have occurred since the Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act of 2006.
4. Investigate major disasters that contributed to changes in federal government policy and procedures for emergency management.

PreRequisites

None

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