Emergency Management and Homeland Security (EMHS)

Provides a research based and practitioner overview of how people perceive and react to extreme events before, during, and after disasters. (Formerly 2235:105)

Prerequisite: Acceptance into the Police Academy. Corequisites: EMHS 202, EMHS 203, EMHS 204 and EMHS 205. Overview of the administration and legal issues of becoming an Ohio Peace Officer. (Formerly 2235:201)

Prerequisite: Acceptance into the Police Academy. Corequisites: EMHS 201, EMHS 203, EMHS 204 and EMHS 205. Overview of human relations, civil disorders, investigation, and homeland security involved in becoming an Ohio Peace Officer. (Formerly 2235:202)

Prerequisite: Acceptance into the Police Academy. Corequisites: EMHS 201, EMHS 202, EMHS 204 and EMHS 205. Overview of motor vehicle offenses, traffic crash investigation, speed measuring and sobriety testing required to pass the Ohio Peace Officer Training program. (Formerly 2235:203)

Prerequisite: Acceptance into the Police Academy. Corequisites: EMHS 201, EMHS 202, EMHS 203 and EMHS 205. Classroom and practical skills training in firearms, patrol, and driving to satisfy all state requirements for the Ohio Peace Officer Training Program. (Formerly 2235:204)

Prerequisite: Acceptance into the Police Academy. Corequisites: EMHS 201, EMHS 202, EMHS 203 and EMHS 204. Classroom and skills in defense tactics, physical fitness and First Aid/CPR/AED & WMD Awareness to satisfy requirements to become an Ohio Peace Officer. (Formerly 2235:205)

Introduction to the field of health and safety as related to business and industrial operations. Emphasis is placed on hazard/risk analysis and the regulatory environment. (Formerly 2235:210)

Introduction to the legal system and to the laws and regulations dealing with water, air, land, noise and other sources of pollution. (Formerly 2235:220)

Prerequisite: EMHS 220 and permission. Designed to provide students the opportunity to apply common regulatory reporting mechanisms in a practical manner utilizing a variety of software programs recognized in the environmental field. (Formerly 2235:221)

Prerequisites: EMHS 105. Basic concepts of aquatic and atmospheric systems and the processes which pollute them. Emphasis on control and monitoring of cultural, industrial, and agricultural pollution sources. Laboratory. (Formerly 2235:230)

Corequisite: EMHS 230. Field experience with a wide range of environmental sampling techniques and equipment. (Formerly 2235:232)

Examines how contemporary culture perpetuates myths of natural and technological disasters. Students deconstruct and analyze reality from the myths in various types of media. (Formerly 2235:285)

An overview of emergency management and homeland security history, theory, terms, concepts, organization, and roles. Emphasizes natural and technological hazards, and risk assessment processes. (Formerly 2235:305)

Introduction to scientific method and processes, research ethics, and qualitative and quantitative methods. Use of research for appropriate decision making. (Formerly 2235:340)

Prerequisite: EMHS 305. Legal requirement, planning formats, and response procedures are presented. Special focus community risk assessment: hazard analysis, vulnerability assessment, and community response capability assessment. (Formerly 2235:350)

Corequisite: EMHS 305. Examines terrorism from historical, international, transnational, and domestic perspectives. Includes political and religious terrorism along with emergency management considerations. (Formerly 2235:360)

Prerequisite: EMHS 305. Examines disaster prevention and risk reduction. Focuses on such concepts as sustainability, resiliency, non-structural and structural mitigation and various sectors' responsibilities. (Formerly 2235:365)

Prerequisite: EMHS 305. Provides foundations for disaster relief and recovery planning, stages of recovery, resources used, and formation of public/private partnerships for recovery action and resource allocation. (Formerly 2235:367)

Prepares students for career entry into Emergency Management and Homeland Security areas. Professionalism, resume building, interview techniques, and resource sites will be examined. (Formerly 2235:368)

Overview of hazards theory, the science of hazard development, and various hazard types. Emphasis on emergency management and homeland security perspectives in regard to various hazard management related topics. (Formerly 2235:370)

This course introduces students to the role and operation of the intelligence community within the homeland security framework: History, mission, structure, capabilities, and methods. (Formerly 2235:384)

This course presents leadership research from an interdisciplinary perspective. Content is drawn the fields of business, training, simulation, organizational theory, government, and others. This course covers early leadership theory, horizontal theories, crisis training models and approaches, and crisis cognitive processing strategies. Students will examine the overall system of building better crisis leaders. (Formerly 2235:401)

Prerequisite: EMHS 305. Provides an overview of the various types of technology utilized in disasters, emergency management and homeland security. Topics include communications, watches, warnings, and operational challenges. (Formerly 2235:406)

Overview of meteorological variables and weather data useful to EM including meteorological instruments, forecasts, model, radar and satellite imagery, thunderstorms, tornadoes, winter storms and hurricanes. (Formerly 2235:407)

Prerequisite: EMHS 305. Analysis of citizen actions regarding major disasters including perspectives of individuals and emergency managers using case studies, theories, and social problems. (Formerly 2235:420)

Prerequisite: EMHS 305. Examines emergency management and homeland security business components in the private and public sectors. Emphasizes business continuity plans along with case studies in hazards and disasters. (Formerly 2235:425)

Discussion of relevant issues impacting the field of emergency management and homeland security by analyzing various case studies. (Formerly 2235:430)

Prerequisite: EMHS 305. Discussion and analysis of cyber issues impacting the public, private, and nonprofit sectors of emergency management and homeland security. (Formerly 2235:435)

Prerequisite or Corequisite: EMHS 495. Ties together relevant concepts in emergency management and homeland security to help prepare graduates for professional careers integrating theory and applications. (Formerly 2235:480)

Prerequisites: Senior standing in the Cyber Forensics program and placement by an advisor. This is the senior capstone course for the Cyber Forensics degree. This course is a culminating experience class in which issues in cyber forensics will be examined, applied, and analyzed into the broader application of societal contexts and issues. (Formerly 2235:485)

Prerequisites: EMHS 305 and EMHS 350. A variety of course topics on current subjects related to emergency management and disaster preparedness. May be repeated for up to 12 credits. (Formerly 2235:490)

Prerequisites: Junior or greater standing in the Cyber Forensics program and placement by an advisor. This course provides the student with an experience in digital technology in the workplace. Each student is required to meet with an instructor to discuss and examine the workplace experience. (Formerly 2235:493)

Prerequisite: 30 hours in program and permission from program director. Supervised work experience in emergency management and/or homeland security to increase student understanding by applying program education to an applied work experience. (Formerly 2235:495)

Prerequisites: EMHS 305 and EMHS 350. Selected topics, special areas of study in emergency management, disaster preparedness under the supervision of a faculty member with whom specific arrangements have been made. (Formerly 2235:497)