CJ 3305 - Crisis Management

3 Credit Hour(s)

This course provides an overview of methods used to identify, plan for, mitigate, respond, and recover from a variety of events. The structure of the federal and state level crisis management and functions are considered along with the emergency support functions relied upon. Emphasis is placed on the roles and responsibilities of leadership during a crisis along with the framework of national, regional, and local response. The ability to understand and evaluate the phases of a crisis, continuity of government, and the private sector during incidents is also examined. Case studies, exercises, and discussions will be used to encourage critical review of the philosophy and principles of crisis management. This course addresses development of risk matrices, identification of threat and risk, crisis theory, stress management and the probability of crisis event occurrence.