Identify threats, assess risk, and organize the implementation of interagency, integrated emergency preparedness solutions to enhance resilience of the nation.
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Degree ProgramsThe Integrated Emergency Management program builds national resilience capacities through courses on standard practices, procedures and technologies to collect information, conduct risk assessment, and develop effective plans for emergency management, response, leadership, relief, and recovery. Through a combination of lectures, discussions, simulation exercises, and applied real-world scenarios, students learn team organisation, professional ethics, interagency operations, and resilience through the core principles of contemporary relevance, integration, cooperation, multi-agency coordination, and interoperability. Graduates are leaders who contribute to the safety, security, defence, emergency preparedness, and crisis management (SSDEC) for resilience of the nation.
The program prepares graduates as leaders who are able to manage a multidisciplinary team in the application of standard, ethical, practices, procedures, and technologies to identify threats, assess risk, and implement organisational, interagency, integrated emergency management solutions to enhance resilience of the nation.
PEO1. Have relevant technological skills, knowledge, and abilities for employment as a manager in the SSDEC sector.
PEO2. Work, lead, and communicate effectively in a team to achieve common goals.
PEO3. Apply standards, ethical practices, procedures, and technologies to collect information, conduct risk assessment, and develop effective programs.
PEO4. Implement organisational, interagency solutions to strengthen the SSDEC community and build national resilience capacities.
PEO5. Expand knowledge and capabilities through continuing education, certification, and other lifelong learning opportunities.
PEO6. Fulfil civic duties and responsibilities through local, national, or global service.
PLO1. Effectively communicate SSDEC matters using oral, written, and presentation methods.
PLO2. Critically evaluate the legal, social, and ethical implications related to SSDEC management.
PLO3. Apply analytical and critical thinking skills to resolve complex situations and problems related to SSDEC.
PLO4. Apply science, mathematics, and information technology for SSDEC data collection, analysis, and problem resolution.
PLO5. Research contemporary SSDEC issues, emergent threats, challenges, and the broader context related to international response.
PLO6. Demonstrate leadership and teamwork skills necessary to support multi-agency cooperation.
PLO7. Apply techniques, skills, and SSDEC based standards necessary for professional practice.
PLO8. Demonstrate responsibility for self-improvement and recognize the need for life-long learning.
PLO9. Design innovative organisational systems and programs to enhance resilience in real-world examples and scenarios.
PLO10. Apply processes and methodologies for risk assessment and management.
PLO11. Discuss areas of emergency management responsibility within the IEM/BCM cycle.
PLO12. Evaluate the roles, responsibilities and relationships between the private sector, public sector, and the non-governmental organisations for national and international emergency management.
PLO13. Demonstrate knowledge of the principles of emergency management, concepts, competencies, terminologies and frameworks applied in the UAE and internationally.
60cr Associate / Diploma Qualification
| Semester 1 | Semester 2 | ||||
| Code | Name | Crdt | Code | Name | Crdt |
| GP2210 | Intro to Concepts of IEM | 3 | GP2220 | Intro to Emergency Response | 3 |
| SEC100 | Introduction to SSDEC management | 3 | GP2140 | Intro to Leadership and Mgt Emrg | 3 |
| GE1180 | Statistics | 3 | General Education | 3 | |
| General Education | 3 | General Education | 3 | ||
| General Education | 3 | Elective | 3 | ||
| Semester 3 | Semester 4 | ||||
| Code | Name | Crdt | Code | Name | Crdt |
| GP1230 | Introduction to Strategic Risk Mgt | 3 | IEM316 | Relief and Recovery | 3 |
| GP3230 | Strategic Planning | 3 | SEC290 | Innovative Prj in SSDEC Mgt | 3 |
| General Education | 3 | Elective | 3 | ||
| Elective | 3 | Elective | 3 | ||
| Elective | 3 | Elective | 3 | ||
120cr Bachelor of Science Qualification
| Semester 5 | Semester 6 | ||||
| Code | Name | Crdt | Code | Name | Crdt |
| GP3140 | Tactical Emergency Management | 3 | GP3210 | Validating and Auditing Plans | 3 |
| IEM216 | Creating Emergency Mgt Plans | 3 | GP4120 | Adv Research and Study Skills | 3 |
| General Education | 3 | General Education | 3 | ||
| General Education | 3 | General Education | 3 | ||
| Elective | 3 | Elective | 3 | ||
| Semester 7 | Semester 8 | ||||
| Code | Name | Crdt | Code | Name | Crdt |
| GP3220 | Workplace Secondment | 3 | SEC490 | Project in SSDEC Management | 3 |
| IEM417 | Comparative Approaches to IEM | 3 | GP3130 | ECC and Information Management | 3 |
| General Education | 3 | General Education | 3 | ||
| Elective | 3 | Elective | 3 | ||
| Elective | 3 | Elective | 3 | ||
