10 courses with the subject HEM, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
HEM 601Clinical Foundations for Health Emergency Management3
This course provides an introduction to the study of emergency management, its history, and current functions in the public and private sectors. Key theories, concepts, and ethical considerations are introduced. It illustrates the need for integrated, collaborative operations; the grounding in data and analysis; and the focus on prevention and continuous improvement.
HEM 616Health Emergency Management Operations and Quality3
Introduces operations frameworks in the United States such as the Incident Management System (ICS), the National Interagency Incident Management System (NIMS), and the National Response Plan (NRP). Other frameworks used by NGOs, the military, and international organizations are compared. The need for organization, pre-planning, and coordination is integrated with the need to expand structures and adapts plans when handling complex incidents and large, pre-planned events.
HEM 619Health Emergency Systems and Environmental3
This course builds a conceptually sound basis for identifying potential causes of emergency events, estimating their probability and severity, evaluating community vulnerability, systematically identifying mitigation strategies, and selecting from among options. Methods for studying new or rare threats for which there are scant data are included. The essential links between sustainable development and effective hazard mitigation are stressed.
HEM 634Public Health Hazards Planning and Response3
The major areas of focus in this course are infectious disease outbreaks, food-or water-borne illnesses, and incidents involving the intentional release of hazardous agents. Management strategies are reviewed, including surveillance and detection of agents or affected individuals, prevention of exposure to agents of concern, capacity and resource planning, collaboration with the medical and public health communities, and actions in multiple casualty/fatality events. Case studies are stressed.
This course provides an overview of the motivations, tools, and impacts of terrorist activities. Intentional actions by individuals or groups are examined in the context of case studies. The role of social, political, physical, legal, in information-based strategies is examined. Special emphasis is placed on critical infrastructure mitigation planning.
HEM 646Building Sustainable Coalitions for Health Emergency Management3
This course examines the types of coalitions needed to integrate all community components in emergency management. It reviews tools for creating interagency agreements and public-private partnerships that may include businesses, non-governmental organizations, non-profit institutions, volunteers, and community members. Course components model the interpersonal and communication skills needed to establish respectful, collaborative, and sustainable relationships.
This course addresses issues in communication that arise in all phases of emergency management and among all constituencies. Coordination of communication during operations includes considerations about interoperability and coordination of cooperating agencies under ICS. Media communication guidelines are included. Introduces concepts and theories of risk perception and communication that can guide more effective public communication and education programs.
Under the supervision of a faculty advisor approved by the Department Chair, the student produces a research paper in acceptable written format and defends it in a presentation to a review panel. Master of Science in Industrial Organizational Psychology (online) The Master of Science in Industrial/Organizational Psychology (I/O Psychology) blends coursework from the fields of counseling psychology and business. The degree offers practical and research-based learning that prepares students to apply the principles of psychology to organizational and leadership challenges. The I/O Psychology program offers flexibility in designing a unique course of study for each graduate student.
This graduate seminar project challenges the student to apply all aspects of their skills and abilities to solve, or present recommendations towards improving a documented deficient or outdated healthcare emergency management process. The Dean and Department Chair must approve this project
