Emergency Management Minor

Interdisciplinary Studies Office

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.

A. The Minor

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

B. Core (9 hours)

1. EMGT 3100 Seminar on Emergency Management (3) or PADM 3611    Disaster Planning/Control (3)

2. ESCI 4251 Environmental Hazards (3) or ESCI 4220, Geol/Hazards/Earthquakes (3)

3. Capstone Experience: 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.

EMGT 4000 Internship (3) or ESCI 4621 Investigations in Geography (3) or CJUS 4190 Terrorism: Social and Legal Perspectives.

C. Electives (9 hours)

Select at least one course (3 hours) from each of the following groups not taken to fulfill the core requirements:

1. Physical: ESCI 4251, Environmental Hazards; ESCI 4220 Geol/Hazards/Earthquakes; ESCI 4551 Urban Planning Studio; ARCH 4551 Site and Environmental Planning

2. Human (Social/Cultural/Legal/Political): CJUS 4190 Terrorism: Social and Legal Perspectives; ANTH 4510 Health, Culture, Environmental Justice; PADM 3601 Introduction to Public Administration; PADM 4221 Issues in Urban Administration; SOCI 3701 Individual and Society; SOCI 3401 Social Inequality; ANTH 4510 Health/Culture/Environmental Justice or ANTH 4220 Cultural Perspectives/Environment; COMM 3002 Theories/Human Communication; COMM 3322 Theories of Persuasion

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