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2022-2023 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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HSPS 212 - Introduction to Mitigation
PREREQUISITES: HSPS 101 - Introduction to Homeland Security , HSPS 111 - Principles of Emergency Management .
PROGRAM: Homeland Security/Public Safety
CREDIT HOURS MIN: 3
LECTURE HOURS MIN: 3
DATE OF LAST REVISION: Fall, 2014
Students and practitioners will gain a comprehensive overview of hazard mitigation. Students will study various Federal Emergency Management Agency guidance documents and sample plans. This course will consist of considerable internet research on the student’s part. A major component of the course is researching and writing a hazard mitigation plan.
MAJOR COURSE LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Upon successful completion of this course the student will be expected to:
- Understand mitigation planning
- Identify hazards and estimate losses
- Identify mitigation actions and implementation strategies
- Implement the hazard mitigation plan
- Utilize benefit-cost review in mitigation planning
- Integrate historic property and cultural resource considerations into hazard mitigation planning
- Integrate man made hazards into mitigation planning
- Understand multi-jurisdictional mitigation planning
- Understand multi-hazard mitigation planning
- Develop and write a hazard mitigation plan
COURSE CONTENT: Topical areas of study include -
- Emergency management
- Stakeholders
- Principal hazards in the United States
- Disaster recovery
- Hazards
- Vulnerability and risk analysis
- Local, state and federal mitigation efforts
Course Addendum - Syllabus (Click to expand)
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