Information and Decision Sciences

IDS 524: Strategic Emergency Management and Continuity Planning

Credit hours 3
Catalog description Introduction to frameworks and methods for designing, developing, implementing, and evaluating for emergency management and business continuity strategies in the public and private sectors.
Key topics
  • Basic Principles of strategic planning
  • Establishing a planning team and stakeholder assessment for emergencies
  • Methods of threat assessment-event characterization
  • Methods of threat assessment?victim characterization
  • Vulnerability assessment
  • Internal capability assessment-physical resources
  • Internal capability assessment-personnel and training
  • Developing mission, objective and goals of the emergency or continuity plan
  • EMCP components - Prevention
  • EMCP components - Response
  • EMCP components -Surveillance and mitigation
  • EMCP components - Recovery
  • Budgetary and resource analysis of EMCP
  • Computer assisted EMCP development
  • Critique of student projects
Prerequisites for this course None
Course(s) for which this is a prerequisite None
Required course for Students in EMCP
Elective course for None
Frequency of offering Fall and Spring
Recent offerings, instructors, syllabi  
Planned offerings Fall 2007 (Syllabus coming soon)
Cross-listings  
Comments In addition to the lecture students must take a computer lab.