FFP 2840 - Disaster Recovery Operations

College of Public Safety Administration

Credit(s): 3
Contact Hours: 47
Effective Term Fall 2021 (595)

Course Description

This course provides the student specialized knowledge and skills necessary to develop programs and activities associated with providing disaster recovery assistance and mitigation actions that will reduce losses from future disasters.

Learning Outcomes and Objectives

  1. The student will demonstrate how to effectively manage a comprehensive emergency management program by:
    1. listing emergency planning concepts necessary to develop an integrated, generic, comprehensive hazard mitigation program.
    2. analyzing recovery operations history, philosophy, strategy, programs and consequences.
    3. describing fundamental issues and concerns of mitigation programs during short and long term operations.
    4. describing comprehensive emergency management systems.
  2. The student will demonstrate how to develop community-wide participation in planning, coordination and management functions designed to improve emergency management capabilities and command and control operations during recovery operations at major and catastrophic disasters by:
    1. describing recovery operations in communities and mitigation factors related to geography and locations.
    2. listing concepts of recovery planning.
    3. listing the activities that should happen in each phase of a disaster.
    4. listing skills necessary to develop programs that will reduce losses from future disasters during recovery operations and other extreme events caused by natural and manmade hazards.
  3. The student will understand short and long term recovery concepts into all areas of the community, using an all hazard approach by:
    1. describing plans for recovery operation for special populations and the general public after disasters.
    2. listing fundamental issues and concerns of long and short term recovery operations.
    3. describing recovery operations history, philosophy, strategy, programs, and consequences.

Criteria Performance Standard

Upon successful completion of the course the student will, with a minimum 70% accuracy, demonstrate mastery of each of the above objectives through classroom measures developed by individual course instructors.

History of Changes

DBT 11/21/95 Effective Session 19952 Changed from FFP 2996 per SCNS notification 3/22/96. Effective Session 19962. We asked that this become EAM2012 SCNS rejected the EAM prefix,course reverts to FFP 2480 Effective e 19982. 3 year review 2000. Online 20002. College name chg 20011. #chg eff 20021/Field Rev. 3 Year Review 2004. 3 Year Review 2008. C&I Approval: 11/19/1996, BOT Approval: 12/17/1996, Effective Term: Fall 2008 (400). C&I Approval: , BOT Approval: , Effective Term: Spring 2021 (585).
C&I Approval: , BOT Approval: , Effective Term: Fall 2021 (595)

Related Programs

  1. Emergency Administration and Management (EAM-CT) (625) (Active)
  2. Homeland Security and Emergency Management (EAM-AS) (640) (Active)
  3. Public Safety Administration (PSA-TR) (670) (Active)