Current active course description (last updated 2019/20)
Preparedness and Emergency Management
LED5001
Current active course description (last updated 2019/20)
Preparedness and Emergency Management
LED5001
This course emphasizes the roles and responsibilities of managers in preparing for crises response operations. The students learn about operational patterns within emergency response action and leadership skills to ensure good coordination, communication and control within emergency response at both tactical, operational and strategic level. In this course, we elaborate on special challenges related to joint and complex operations, including a focus on emergency response in different contexts. This course is connected to training and exercises in NORDLAB and participation in Exercise Nord, the full-scale exercise arranged yearly by Nord University.
Knowledge:
- Advanced knowledge about central theories within preparedness and management in emergency response
- Advanced nowledge about team organizing and management systems for emergency preparedness actors
- Specific knowledge about the different managerial roles, responsibilities and mechanisms for coordination, communication and control in emergency response
- Knowledge of challenges of complexity related to different operational environments with a range of actors involved, such as large-scale incidents, maritime operations and operations in polar regions
Skills:
- Be able to collaborate with different types of emergency preparedness actors, both civil and military, volunteers and professional
- Be able to recognize different roles in emergency preparedness organizations and analyze different mechanisms for coordination
- Be able to analyze challenges related to task-force management in different environments
- Develop the capabilities for improvisation under uncertainty
General competences:
- Be able to acquire research-based knowledge of management at strategic, operational and tactical level in emergency preparedness organizations
- Be able to learn through evaluation of past events or exercises aiming at better organization and management of an emergency organization
- Be able to discuss the courses academic topics based on experience from own practice
Costs for semester registration and course litterature apply.
Mandatory
Lectures, work in groups, self-study and exercises in simulator lab.
Evaluation using mid-term and final surveys. Students are also encouraged to participate in the central quality surveys.
English language