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<br />PPOO-2 <br /> <br />FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY <br />EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE'S <br />HIGHER EDUCATION PROJECT <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />One of the goals of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is to encourage and support the <br />spread of hazards, disasters, and emergency management-related education in colleges and universities <br />across the United States. FEMA believes that in the future more and more emergency managers in <br />government as well as in business and industry will come to the job with a college education that includes a <br />degree in emergency management. <br /> <br />FEMA's Emergency Management Institute (EMI), in Emmitsburg, Mary land, which focuses on providing <br />skills-based training to existing emergency management personnel, has undertaken several projects with the <br />aim of promoting college-based emergency management education for future emergency managers. <br /> <br />The Emergency Management Institute developed its own outline of a potential emergency management <br />curriculum consisting of a series of classroom based, upper division (junior/senior), baccalaureate-level <br />courses. Each course is in the form of an Instructor Guide in sufficient detail to enable an informed <br />instructor to teach the course at the upper division level with a minimum of additional work outside of <br />becoming familiar with the recommended course materials. The courses currently available included: <br /> <br />Business and Industry Crisis Management <br />Emergency Management Principles and Application for Tourism, Hospitality and Travel <br />Management Industries <br />Individual and Community Disaster Education <br />Political and Policy Basis of Emergency Management <br />Principles and Practice of Hazard Mitigation <br />Public Administration and Emergency Management <br />Research and Analysis Methods in Emergency Management <br />Social Dimensions of Disaster <br />Sociology of Disaster <br />Technology and Emergency Management <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Courses under development include: <br /> <br />Building Disaster Resilient Communities <br />Disaster Response Operations and Management <br />Earthquake Ha~ard Management and Operations <br />Emergency Management for the Fire Community <br />Emergency Management Skills and Principles <br />Ha~ards, Disasters and Emergency Management - An Introduction <br />Living In a Hazardous Environment <br />Terrorism and Emergency Management (forthcoming) <br />Hazards Risk Assessment <br />Vulnerability Approach to Emergency Management <br /> <br />Each course is available for download at no cost from the Higher Education Project web site at: <br /> <br />www.fema.~ov/emiledu/hi2her.htm A Cd-rom containing all the Emergency <br /> <br />Management Bachelor Degree courses is available through the National Technical Information Service <br />(NTIS). For cost and ordering information visit NTIS's web site at www.ntls.l!ov or call 1-800-553- <br />NTIS. The order number is PB2000-500063. <br /> <br />--OVER-- <br /> <br />. <br />