Emergency Management Minor

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The interdisciplinary Emergency Management Minor is designed for students with a diversity of backgrounds and interest in applying that background to emergency management, community resilience to disaster, environmental hazards mitigation, emergency management response, and business continuity/disaster recovery, and will address the following critical knowledge:

the physical and social dimensions of disasters through combining knowledge from various physical, social, and applied disciplines;
the intersection of public policy to disaster risk, response, and mitigation;
the intersection of the private, nonprofit, and governmental sectors and how this effects emergency preparedness, mitigation, and recovery;
sustainable development, planning for and response to extreme events and change in our physical and human landscapes; and
communication dynamics and persuasive communication.

Requirements

The Minor

18 semester hours, 9 hours from the core and 9 hours from the list of approved electives.

Core (9 hours)

EMGT 3100 - Seminar in Emergency Management** Credit Hours: (3) (ESCI 3100 /PADM 3100 )

Select One from:

ESCI 4251 - Environmental Hazards Credit Hours: (3)
ESCI 3131 - Severe Weather Credit Hours: (3)
CJUS 4190 - Terrorism Soc/Legl Prsp ** Credit Hours: (3)
ANTH 4223 - Refugees and Humanitarianism Credit Hours: (3)

Capstone Experience:

A pre-approved internship experience related specifically to emergency management policy, procedures, planning, etc. Alternatively, the student could complete a research seminar/project on a relevant and pre-approved emergency management topic. Select one from:

EMGT 4000 - Internship** Credit Hours: (3)
ESCI 4621 - Investigations In GEOG Credit Hours: (1-3)
CJUS 4100 - Ind Dir Studies Credit Hours: (1-6)

Electives (9 hours)

Three courses (9 hours), none of which have been used to fulfill the core requirements, from among the following groups with no more than two courses (6 hours) from the same group:

Physical Management:

ESCI 4251 - Environmental Hazards Credit Hours: (3)
ESCI 3131 - Severe Weather Credit Hours: (3)
ESCI 4551 - Urban Planning Studio Credit Hours: (3)
ANTH 3500 - Anth of Global Health ** Credit Hours: (3)
ARCH 4451 - Site/Environmental Planning Credit Hours: (3)

Human (Social/Cultural/Legal/Political):

CJUS 4190 - Terrorism Soc/Legl Prsp ** Credit Hours: (3)
PADM 3601 - Public Admin** Credit Hours: (3)
PADM 4221 - Issues/Urban Admin Credit Hours: (3)
SOCI 3701 - Individual and Society ** Credit Hours: (3)
SOCI 3401 - Social Inequality ** Credit Hours: (3)
COMM 3322 - Persuasion and Influence Credit Hours: (3)
ANTH 4415 - Anthropology Human Rights Credit Hours: (3)
ANTH 4418 - Anthropology of Organizations Credit Hours: (3)

Note

With approval from the Emergency Management advisor, special topics courses related to emergency management topics may be substituted to fulfill requirements for the minor.