Course Syllabus

O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs

V275 Intro to Emergency Management

Instructor: David G. Henry, Instructor

Class Meeting: M/W 8:05PM - 9:20PM A201

Office Hours: By Appointment

Course Description: This course provides an overview of the principles and practices of emergency

management at the local, state, national and international level. The course reviews intergovernmental relationships important to the preparation for, response to, recovery from and mitigation of disasters and their risks for communities. The course provides an overview of US emergency management through a survey of its history and evolution of policy and best practices. The course will use experiential-based assignments (e.g. memos) and examination, in concert with a case study approach to explore primary sources and trends in emergency management. Students may discover a career in emergency management from this course.

Learning Outcomes: 

• Understand the history of emergency management and the implications of disasters upon policy making;

• Gain knowledge of the basic policy, doctrine and best practices of emergency management as discipline with its own body of knowledge;

• Apply knowledge to case-studies and scenarios; and

• Understand personal and social implications of emergency management policy choices.

Textbook: 

• Bullock, Haddow, Coppola  (Ed.). (2024). Introduction to Emergency Management (8th Eds.). Butterworth-Heinemann ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0443237018