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This course will define the interdisciplinary roles and responsibilities of professionals, paraprofessionals, and volunteers in all-hazards emergency planning, response, mitigation, and recovery. (3 credit hours)

DEM 5055—Disaster Planning and Evaluation

This course will address a critical component required of all emergency managers—that of developing and evaluating plans for disasters and community events on both large and small scales. The fundamental components of different types of plans, as well as required FEMA forms for planning and reporting, will be covered. Students will learn to prioritize planning efforts by assessing current strengths, needs, gaps, assets, and infrastructure capabilities, allowing them to integrate and coordinate efforts among government agencies and multi-jurisdictional efforts. Students will develop part of a plan as their final project.

Prerequisite: DEM 5050 (3 credit hours) DEM 6010—Practicum

This is a culminating capstone experience for all M.S. students. With faculty member approval, students will select a community-based project for a practicum in an

emergency preparedness site or facility. The student is expected to acquire skills and experience in the application of emergency preparedness. (3 credit hours)

Management and Leadership Cluster Core Courses

DEM 5010—Leadership and Organizational Behavior for Emergency Preparedness

The application of effective leadership techniques and behaviors that influence them are a valued skillset that emergency preparedness professionals use to mobilize human resources. Understanding and responding to organizational behavior is a challenge that emergency managers routinely face. This course provides students with an understanding of various leadership and organizational theories in the context of emergency preparedness. Students will examine and develop a range of skills in a number of areas including the use of 21st-century management theories and practice, group dynamics, leadership and influence, conflict management, and the dynamics of positional power and authority. Students will acquire these skills through experiential learning, observation, and practice while learning practical strategies for their application for personal and professional growth in the emergency preparedness discipline. (3 credit hours)

DEM 5020—Preparedness, Planning, Mitigation, and Continuity Management

This course provides the student with an understanding of the techniques for in-house or on-site planning as well as community planning. Planning will be addressed from its position in the overall philosophy of comprehensive emergency management. Regulatory requirements for planning will be covered. Sample plans will be developed.

DEM 5030—Executive Leadership and Administration

Topics covered in this course include program planning and management, financial planning and management, managing information, managing people and time, personality types, leadership styles, decision-making skills, team-building skills and group dynamics, community- building skills, intergovernmental relationships, negotiating skills, communications skills, emergency preparedness ethics, and professionalism. (3 credit hours)

DEM 5040—Security Management in a Global Society

This course will examine security challenges and responses that face a global society including airport, maritime, rail, and auto safety. This course will provide students with the opportunity to investigate security management in other countries in order to make a comparison to U.S. security management systems. (3 credit hours)

Threats, Hazards and Impacts Cluster Core Courses

DEM 5060—Environmental Hazards in Emergency Preparedness

This course will provide a basic understanding of the variety of environmental hazards that can be associated with a variety of disasters and emergencies. Topics to be addressed include types of hazardous materials, their storage and transportation, hazardous waste, and a variety of physical and mechanical environmental hazards. Basic standards and regulations will be examined. Students will learn how to develop in-house and on-site emergency response contingency plans. (3 credit hours)

DEM 5070—Risk Assessment and Mitigation

The student will review the key concepts, methods, and practices of modern risk management through a detailed exploration and evaluation of hazard identification, vulnerability assessment, and risk analysis. Legal and political risk factors will be addressed. (3 credit hours)

DEM 5080—Agroterrorism and Food System Disasters

This course will introduce the student to the dangers and impacts of terrorist attacks against agricultural or food industry targets. The student will learn about potential targets, detection systems, vulnerability assessment, planning, and recovery. (3 credit hours)

DEM 5090/CJI 6122/HCP 6102—Weapons of Mass Threat and Communicable Diseases

This course will provide students with an understanding of pandemic influenza and other communicable diseases. Students will also be introduced to potential chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive weapons and will learn the expectations of preparations and responses

to a pandemic or CBRNE event. Prerequisite: DEM 5050/ PUH 5112/CJI 6121 (3 credit hours)

General Electives

DEM 6120—Psychosocial Dimensions of Disaster

This course will focus on the psychological and behavioral health and psychological impacts of emergencies, disasters, and terrorism on survivors, responders, and communities. Topics will include identification and management of impacts and reactions, mental health systems and resources, Psychological First Aid (PFA), and considerations for vulnerable populations. (3 credit hours)

DEM 6130—Risk and Crisis Communication

Students will be exposed to the strategies and methodologies in the exchange of information among stakeholders about the nature, magnitude, significance, or control of a risk. The course will focus on helping students to build trust and explain complexities to individuals and groups when emergencies arise. (3 credit hours)

DEM 6150—Grant Writing for Emergency Preparedness

This course is an introduction to the skills needed to write a grant in the field of emergency preparedness. Each student will submit a grant as a culminating experience.

(3 credit hours)

DEM 6160—Leadership Topics in Disaster and Emergency Preparedness

This is a didactic course in a specific area of interest in emergency preparedness and disaster management. Each leadership topic course will have a different DEM course number. (3 credit hours)

DEM 6170—Elective Practicum

With faculty member approval, students will be allowed to select an additional community-based project for a practicum in an emergency preparedness facility. The facility and the area of focus for the project will be different from those selected for the required practicum. The student is expected to become familiar with a different area of emergency preparedness and develop additional skills from those developed in the required practicum in their chosen track. (1–3 credit hours)

DEM 6180—Exercise Design

Exercise design is much like scripting a play to make sure all of the players perform the correct actions and make the right decisions at the appropriate time. In this course, students will learn what comprises the various types of exercises (tabletop, functional, and full-scale) and explore the design process following a step-by-step process (needs assessment, scope, statement of purpose, objectives, narrative scenario, major and detailed event schedule, and expected actions) utilizing a building block

complexity and execution, allowing for appropriate training and preparation to occur in the community conducting the exercise. At the completion of the course, students will have developed an individual, tabletop exercise with all the requisite components. Additionally, students will incorporate various evaluation methods to facilitate the development of viable after action reports and improvement plans.

Maritime Safety and

Security Concentration Electives

DEM 6210—Introduction to Maritime Safety and Security

This course offers basic shipboard safety awareness, covering topics such as personal safety techniques and use of firefighting and other onboard equipment to protect one’s self, the crew, and a vessel at sea. (3 credit hours)

DEM 6220—Maritime Safety and Security Leadership

A ship’s officers are responsible for the safety of their crew. This course will introduce the student to concepts such as crew leadership, target identification, the decision- making risk matrix, and safety drilling. Students will learn to develop a vessel safety plan. Prerequisite: DEM 6210

(3 credit hours)

DEM 6230—Maritime Security for the Cruise Line and Yachting Industries

This course will address the safety issues specific to the cruise and yachting industries. Topics will include keeping threats away from the vessel and protecting passengers’ lives and well-being. Prerequisite: DEM 6210

(3 credit hours)

DEM 6240—Concepts in Shipboard Safety Management

In this course, students will learn how to address safety issues such as medical emergencies, oil spills, fires, and collisions while underway or at dockside. Students will also learn to develop a contingency plan for a vessel, taking into consideration such things as geographical area of operation, environmental conditions, and the proximity or suitability of both onshore and offshore facilities.

(3 credit hours)

DEM 6250—History of Maritime Disasters

This course will provide a historical understanding of the development of the maritime industry and will include topics such as piracy, commerce, naval warfare, and improvement in naval architecture. (3 credit hours)

DEM 6260—Maritime Environmental Responsibilities

This course introduces environmental politics and policy and examines the process through which environmental policy is generated. This course will also examine the

stress placed on the marine environment by global growth, economic development, and modernization.

(3 credit hours)

Cybersecurity Concentration Electives

(Note: This concentration will be facilitated in partnership with NSU’s College of Engineering and Computing.)

DEM 6310—Introduction to Cybersecurity

This course introduces students to the wide range of modern communications technologies. Use of these technologies by government and business entities for intelligence gathering, their limitations, and their vulnerabilities are presented to students. An overview of the history of computer hacking is covered. Additionally, a brief overview of law and policy concerning cyber communications are discussed, beginning with the National Security Act of 1947. (3 credit hours)

DEM 6320—Information Security and Protection

This course prepares students to assess the security needs of computer and network systems, recommend safeguard solutions, and manage the implementation and maintenance of security devices, systems, and procedures. Reviews of past hacking, criminal, and terrorist (state and nonstate) attacks on information networks are a component of this course. (3 credit hours)

DEM 6330—Cybersecurity and Constitutional Issues

This course discusses telecommunications law and policy as it applies to the rapidly evolving technologies and capabilities of the Internet, telecommunications, satellites, and imagery systems available for commercial and government exploitation. The legal implications of a global Internet, recourses available to law enforcement, treaties, etc. are reviewed from an international perspective— including processes by which international cooperation is gained to deal with cyber threats. (3 credit hours)

DEM 6340—Cyber Vulnerability

Students discuss at length the reliability and vulnerability of computer-based technologies, biometrics, and security technologies. Included are case analyses of external (hacking) and internal (man-in-the-middle) attacks on government and private communications systems.

(3 credit hours)

DEM 6350—Data Mining

This is a course in statistics particularly geared to pattern analysis, information continuity, and data recovery. Inferential and descriptive techniques for decision analysis are included. This course uses a variety of data bases associated with business, census, terrorism, and crime statistics from which students conduct research projects. Personal computers with fundamental software programs such as Excel, SPSS, or SAS are necessary for students to complete this course. (3 credit hours)

Criminal Justice Concentration Electives

(Note: This concentration will be facilitated in partnership with NSU’s College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences.)

DEM 6423/CJI 6123—Interagency Disaster Communication

This course will examine concepts and principles of communication among the many agencies involved in disaster response and recovery. Topics such as the principles and organizational structure of the Incident Command System (ICS) and the National Incident Management System (NIMS) will be explored. Additional topics will include the principles of successful communication, the application of communication principles to all phases of the disaster cycle, mutual aid agreements, memoranda of understanding/agreement, the use of social media in disaster communications, and the role of the public information officer (PIO). Students will develop a communications annex plan as part of the course. (3 credit hours)

DEM 6424/CJI 6124—Community Disaster Preparedness

This course will emphasize “disaster-resistant communities” and will provide information on preparing and developing partnerships within the community. Regardless of the nature of the incident, intentional or unintentional, emergency services personnel may be charged with enforcing public health orders, securing contaminated areas or health facilities, providing protection and support for the transportation and dispensing of assets from the national stockpiles, and controlling civil unrest. Resources may be overwhelmed and the ability to respond will depend on preparation and partnerships within the community.

(3 credit hours)

DEM 6404/HCP 6104—Community Planning, Response, and Recovery for Families and Children

This course is designed to address interdisciplinary roles in preparation and post-disaster community health among families and children. The course will focus on the impact of a disaster on health and family, dissemination of health information, and guides to family emergency planning. Topics will include best practice methods and evaluations of the impact of disaster on health and family, dissemination of health information, guides to family emergency planning, and avenues for public health and safety disciplines to interface with health management organizations. (3 credit hours)

DEM 6410/HCP 6103—Emergency Preparedness Public Policy and Law

This course will address relevant state and federal statutes that affect emergency preparedness. Students will explore the legal implications of mitigation and preparedness efforts and will also become familiar with legal resources

DEM 6440—Conflict Management in Times of Crisis

This course addresses one of the core competencies required of leaders in times of disasters and emergencies— namely, conflict management. Conflict is inevitable in times of crisis, and this course addresses conflict styles, conflict management techniques, communication skills that contribute to effective conflict resolution, and how to bring a strategic approach to managing conflict to support disaster response and recovery. (3 credit hours)

Public Health Concentration Electives

(Note: This concentration will be facilitated in partnership with the Public Health Program at NSU’s Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine)

DEM 6500—Epidemiology of Disasters

This course will examine the fundamentals of epidemiology, including basic concepts in epidemiology concerning the distribution and determinants of disease frequency in human populations and their investigation. Using a case-based approach, students will use the basic principles and methods of epidemiological investigation to assess the short-term and long-term effects of disasters and to predict consequences of future disasters. This course will address topic areas including basic demography, measures of disease frequency, disease screening and surveillance, descriptive and analytical study design, and sources of error in investigations. (3 credit hours)

DEM 6510—Public Health Issues in Disaster and Emergency Preparedness

This course will explore the pervasive views about public health in the emergency and disaster prevention, response, and recovery environment. The course will emphasize the importance of the integration of public health in the development of effective emergency response contingencies for disasters. (3 credit hours)

DEM 6141 Social Vulnerability: Implications in the Disaster Cycle

This course will identify the at-risk and vulnerable populations and discuss how each of these groups is affected in times of disaster. In addition, the course will address the special needs and emergency response efforts that must be considered for each of these groups. (3 credit hours)

PUH 5201—Foundations of Public Health

This course provides an introduction to the history, concepts, values, principles, and practice of public health. The course suggests the sense of purpose that unites the myriad occupations and tasks in public health practice and provides an orientation to each of the five traditional core disciplines of public health practice. (3 credit hours)

PUH 5301—Biostatistics

techniques commonly used in public health research. At course completion, students will be able to apply basic inferential methods in research endeavors and improve their abilities to understand the data analysis of health- related research articles. (3 credit hours)

PUH 5314—Global Health

This courses addresses global health problems and trends translated to the needs and demands of populations, as well as the socioeconomic and political impact on health delivery. The role of international health agencies will also be addressed. (3 credit hours)

Environmental Hazards Concentration Electives DEM 5060—Environmental Hazards in

Emergency Preparedness

This course will provide a basic understanding of the variety of environmental hazards that can be associated with a variety of disasters and emergencies. Topics to be addressed include types of hazardous materials, their storage and transportation, hazardous waste, and a variety of physical and mechanical environmental hazards. Basic standards and regulations will be examined. Students will learn how to develop in-house and on-site emergency response contingency plans. (3 credit hours)

DEM 5080—Agroterrorism and Food System Disasters

This course will introduce the student to the dangers and impacts of terrorist attacks against agricultural or food industry targets. The student will learn about potential targets, detection systems, vulnerability assessment, planning, and recovery. (3 credit hours)

PUH 5201—Foundations of Public Health

This course provides an introduction to the history, concepts, values, principles, and practice of public health. The course suggests the sense of purpose that unites the myriad occupations and tasks in public health practice and provides an orientation to each of the five traditional core disciplines of public health practice. (3 credit hours)

DEM 6260—Maritime Environmental Responsibilities

This course introduces environmental politics and policy and examines the process through which environmental policy is generated. This course will also examine the stress placed on the marine environment by global growth, economic development, and modernization.

(3 credit hours)

DEM 6710—Weather and Disaster and Emergency Preparedness

This course will include basic meteorological principles, methodologies, and terms as well as introduce the student to a variety of weather-related resources and

surveillance systems used in planning for disasters. The basic meteorological processes causing disasters such as hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, droughts, blizzards, and heat waves will be discussed. Students will learn how meteorology and understanding the science of weather can be used in disaster risk reduction. (3 credit hours)

PUH 5220—Environmental and Occupational Health

This course investigates environmental and occupational factors that contribute to the development of health problems in industrialized and developing countries. It includes such topics as toxic substances, pests and pesticides, food quality, air and water pollution, solid and hazardous waste disposal, occupational hazards, and injury prevention. (3 credit hours)

Fire Administration Concentration Electives DEM 5030—Executive Leadership

and Administration

Topics covered in the course include program planning and management, financial planning and management, managing information, managing people and time, personality types, leadership styles, decision-making skills, team-building skills, intergovernmental relationships, negotiating skills, communication skills, emergency preparedness ethics, and professionalism. (3 credit hours)

DEM 6610—Fire Service Operations

This course will explore the role of the fire department as a part of the emergency services and response community, as well as the greater community, during a disaster. The concept of risk-based decision-making for a more effective response during disasters or multiple casualty incidents will be addressed. Incident priorities, strategies, and tactics as they relate to preparedness, planning, and incident management, as well as de-escalation of the response, will also be discussed. (3 credit hours)

DEM 6423/CJI 6123—Interagency Disaster Communication

This course will examine concepts and principles of communication among the many agencies involved in disaster response and recovery. Topics such as the principles and organizational structure of the Incident Command System (ICS) and the National Incident Management System (NIMS) will be explored. Additional topics will include the principles of successful communication, the application of communication principles to all phases of the disaster cycle, mutual aid agreements, memoranda of understanding/agreement, the use of social media in disaster

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