HSEC 306 Homeland Security II - Response to Critical Incidents

This course identifies, examines, and integrates the diverse emergency and crisis management, disaster recovery, and continuity of operation issues.  Basic crisis management, contingency planning, disaster recovery, business continuity, and emergency management skills and knowledge elements will be identified, discussed, developed, and demonstrated how they are applied into practice.  This course focuses on the evolution of U.S. disaster policy and the corresponding practice of emergency and crisis management.  It presents comprehensive emergency management fundamentals, examines major policy issues, differentiates definitions of disasters, and discusses commonly held myths about disasters. 

Credits

3

Offered

Spring