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UEM 501: Introduction To Emergency Management

3 credits

Learn how the discipline of emergency management applies science and technology, planning, risk analysis, and management in dealing with dangerously large and complex events that have the potential to kill and injure large numbers of people, do extensive property damage, and destroy our economic and physical infrastructure.

Learning Goals

1. Examine and evaluate the discipline of comprehensive emergency management and the integrated emergency management system;2. Understand the application and implementation of science and technology into the four phases of emergency management;3. Define, analyze and apply research findings to a crisis and multi-organizational emergency management strategies;4. Organize a spectrum of organizations into the functioning of an emergency operations center and apply necessary functions to the emergency organizational network.

Sections Offered: Fall 2026