Bachelor of Emergency Management (Honours)

Communications can make or break an emergency response and have life and death consequences. Students will learn the methods, concepts, and strategies of designing a communication plan that mitigates the risk of misunderstandings or a total loss of communication during a disaster.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
• Pre-Requisites: EMRG71000
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Being able to collate and put together an easily understood risk profile is essential in emergency management. Learn how to construct Hazard Impact Risk Assessments (HIRA) and Business Impact Assessments (BIA) that outline the hierarchy of risks to your community or organization that provides a guide for building and enhancing emergency management programs.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
• Pre-Requisites: EMRG71030
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Emergencies and disasters can cause major disruptions to the normal function of society and can present emergency managers with challenging situations where they will be presented with multiple ethical dilemmas. This course will explore the complex ethical questions and dilemmas that are often present when disaster strikes and the approaches to making the best possible decision in these circumstances.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
• Pre-Requisites: EMRG71000
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Students will build an in depth understanding of the various ministries, departments, and agencies that make up the public and government bodies of emergency management in a Canadian context and comparatively with international bodies and other countries. This course will look at the various roles, capabilities, and responsibilities of these bodies, as well as the relationships and operational dynamics of multi-public agency responses at all levels of public office.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
• Pre-Requisites: LAW71140
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Disaster can leave a lasting and transformative impact on the affected communities, but disasters do not affect everyone in a community the same way. Access to resources, location of homes, and connection to a community all influence the impacts of disaster on an individual or social group. Learn about how disaster impacts the various facets of a community and the determinants that heavily influence who is most vulnerable, how the most vulnerable get into hazardous situations, and the successful strategies being employed to reduce these population's exposure.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
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• Hours: 14
• Credits: 1
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This course will provide an in-depth analysis of man-made and technical disasters. Crowd disasters, industrial, transportation, and utility failures and accidents all are the products of people and societies. Students will learn about the causes of these emergencies, and the strategies and methods of mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery through analysis of a wide variety of case studies.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
• Pre-Requisites: EMRG71010 AND EMRG72020
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merging high consequence infectious diseases are a constant threat to communities either locally as an endemic, epidemic, or globally as a pandemic. Public Health and other healthcare agencies are often the primary entities charged with preparing for and leading the response to these major public health crises. Learn about the strategies for surveillance, biocontainment, and broader operational responses for outbreak and full pandemic management from a variety of perspectives in the healthcare sector.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
• Pre-Requisites: EMRG72020 AND ETHS72010
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Nature possesses an array of hazards that pose a threat to communities such as hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and floods. Learn about these meteorological and geological hazards, their potential impacts, and how emergency managers manage these hazards through all four phases of emergency management.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
• Pre-Requisites: EMRG71010 AND EMRG72020
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This is a community-based placement focusing on the development and integration of professional practice skills through active learning, community involvement, and exploration. The placement will involve opportunities for supervised community involvement for mutual gain of both the student and the host organization. The course includes a seminar which will support and extend the placement through an emphasis on self-awareness; organizational acuity and organizational behaviour; the application of knowledge and skills; and professional meaning making. The course will also provide an opportunity for students to reflect on their placements in the context of organizational structures, roles, and accountabilities; service delivery models; and individual services and service systems. Students will continue the development of a reflective learning portfolio.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
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• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
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The first co-op work term will provide students with college-approved work experience to support communities and businesses to mitigate, repair, respond, recover from emergency situations. Students will be provided an opportunity to: build skills (physical and procedural skills including accuracy, precision, and efficiency); assist in the acquisition of knowledge in and application of knowledge gained in the academic setting (concepts and terminology in a discipline or field of study); develop critical, creative, and dialogical thinking (improved thinking and reasoning processes); cultivate problem solving and decision-making abilities (mental strategies for finding solutions and making choices); explore attitudes, feelings, and perspectives (awareness of attitudes, biases, and other perspectives, ability to collaborate); practice professional judgment (sound judgment and appropriate professional action in complex, context-dependent situations); and reflect on experience (self-discovery and personal growth from real-world experience).

• Hours: 420
• Credits: 14
• Pre-Requisites: OHS71320
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Recovery from disaster is a long and challenging process. Achieving a sustainable and effective recovery that not only sees a return of normal functions and operations, but also makes communities and entities more resilient to future disasters is a difficult achievement. Learn about how recovery efforts can fail and how effective recovery programs are developed and put into action and how they are successfully sustained.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
• Pre-Requisites: EMRG72040 AND PLAN73000
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Having the right people deployed to the right areas and leading them through a dynamic emergency response is a challenging task. Students will learn optimized team construction, crisis leadership theory and skill sets along with gaining an advanced understanding of managing emergency operation centers and other command settings.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
• Pre-Requisites: EMRG71000 AND EMRG72030
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International government, militaries, and non-governmental organizations play a major role in international humanitarian and disaster relief. This course offers a broad perspective of the role of these organizations in the disaster cycle, and particularly disaster relief and where these organizations may fall within a national response framework. This course will focus on both International Agency and NGO activity in the context of disaster, including supporting mitigation efforts, humanitarian assistance, transnational human rights, and the positive outcomes of their involvement as well as their consequences.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
• Pre-Requisites: EMRG73030 AND EMRG74000
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This course will challenge students to develop, implement and test a practical emergency plan or procedure that integrates the technical knowledge and skills learned in previous and the current semesters. Key elements such as critical thinking, research, problem solving, the use of appropriate tools, communications, and project management skills are emphasized as a comprehensive, complex project is selected, researched, documented, designed, and implemented across the semester. Complete formal testing and release and presentation of the emergency plan will take place in the second part of the course. Students will be encouraged to consider applied research applications, entrepreneurial project ideas, or alternatively, work with an industry partner on authentic industry-driven projects.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
• Pre-Requisites: EMRG74030
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