Emergency Management and Resilience Planning

Fall: July 15

Spring: Nov 15

Summer: April 15

Become an Emergency Management Leader

Local, state, federal, and international agencies, public and nonprofit organizations in healthcare, manufacturing, infrastructure, and hazardous materials industries – all seek qualified individuals with emergency management credentials EMRP coursework offers interdisciplinary leadership training in:

• Communications Management

• Continuity Planning

• Crisis Management

• Emergency Operations Management

• Hazard Vulnerability Analysis

• Information Systems

• Organizational Crisis Response

• Risk Management

• Strategic Planning

The EMRP program is ideal for working professionals in both the public and private sectors Instructors are all leading emergency management practitioners in fields including disaster management and recovery, corporate business continuity planning, and public health There is also a global network of UIC EMRP alumni.

The EMRP certificate courses fulfill the training contact hour requirements for the AEM/CEM certification, and earned coursework may be applied toward a master’s degree at UIC’s School of Public Health.

See reverse side for program requirements and course descriptions.

Emergency Management and Resilience Planning

CERTIFICATE and COURSES

Required Courses (8 semester hours)

HPA 407. Fundamentals of Emergency Management and Resilience Planning. 4 hours.

Aims to provide a foundational body of knowledge on the ideas that can help homeland security professionals think and act critically and strategically.

HPA 408. Decision Support Systems for Emergency Management and Resilience Planning. 4 hours.

Focuses on decision support systems to facilitate the analysis and identification of optimum remedial risk management alternatives and resilience planning from a public health, quantitative and environmental risk management perspective

Select 2 courses from the list below for a total of 8 semester hours

HPA 466. Critical Infrastructure Protection and Allocation of Assets Planning. 4 hours.

Aims to cover complex intergovernmental and public-private sector critical infrastructure protection frameworks; vulnerability/risk analysis and management techniques; assets (resources) allocation planning tools; and crisis management.

HPA 497. Integrative Project in Emergency Management. 4 hours. Independent investigation that draws upon the professional experience and knowledge synthesis of the student. Students investigate a topic/problem in their field and write an article.

HPA 569. Risk Visualization Management Techniques in Homeland Security Sciences. 4 hours. Focuses on the examination of risk visualization techniques applied for managing and mitigating natural hazards, environmental, and homeland security threats.

HPA 575. Strategic Planning for Disaster Resilience. 4 hours.

Focuses on formulating disaster resilience strategic plans for entities in the private and public sectors.

HPA 576. Disaster Response and Recovery Operations. 4 hours. Focuses on the frameworks and methods for designing, developing, implementing, and evaluating programs and costeffective plans for disaster response and recovery operations in the public and private sectors.

HPA 593. Social Vulnerability Analysis. 4 hours.

Study of advanced level social vulnerability analysis techniques and their application for the protection of communities.