Academic Emergency Management and Related Courses
Political and Policy Basis of EM
Documents below are in MS Word or Adobe PDF format.
- Table of Contents
- Course Syllabus
- Appendix A - Student Survey
- Session 1 – Course Orientation
- Session 2 – Political and Policy System in Brief
- Session 3 – U.S. Hazards and Disasters in the era of Homeland Security
- Session 4 – Emergency Managers and the Fundamentals of Emergency Management
- Session 5 - Executive Policy and Political Issues
- Session 6 - Legislative Political Issues and Disaster
- Session 7 - Disaster Laws
- Session 8 – Disaster Budgeting
- Quiz 1 - Sessions 1-8
- Session 9 – The Federal Organization and Policy
- Session 10 – State and Local Political and Organizational Issues
- Session 11 - Intergovernmental Relations
- Session 12 – Civil Military Relations in Emergency Management
- Session 13 – The Public, Interest Groups, and Disasters
- Session 14 – Non-Profit Volunteer Organizations
- Session 15 – The News Media
- Quiz 2 - Sessions 9-15
- Session 16 – Geosciences Policy: Earthquakes, Other Seismic Disasters
- Session 17 – Policy Science: Floods
- Session 18 – Policy Science: Tornadoes and Severe Storms
- Session 19 – Policy Science: Hurricanes and Tropical Storms
- Session 20 - Terrorism and Emergency Management
- Session 21 – The American Fire Community
- Session 22 - Nuclear Power and Hazardous Materials Disaster
- Quiz 3 - Sessions 16-22
- Session 23 - Special Topics: 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund vs. Conventional Disaster Relief Furnished to Victims of Hurricane Katrina
- Session 24 - Special Topics: Political Theories and Emergency Management
- Quiz 4 - Sessions 23-24
