Emergency Preparedness and Crises Management
The course can be taken as a single course. Admission criteria: Bachelor’s degree.
If there are more applicants than study places, eligible applications are ranked according to the time of application.
After completing the course, the student must have obtained:
Knowledge
The student
- has thorough knowledge about emergency preparedness and crisis management within their field.
Skills
The student:
- can analyze and deal critically with various sources of information about emergency preparedness and crisis management within their field
- can analyze professional roles, responsibilities and interdisciplinary collaboration in emergency preparedness and crises management
Competence
The student:
- can communicate about academic issues and analyses of emergency preparedness within their field.
The course will be organised with one digital session followed by a one week in-person study visit at Nord University. After the visit the students will hand in an individual written assignment. The course work will be a combination of individual studying and group work.
In the week at Nord University the students will take part in seminars, study visits and a full-scale Preparedness Exercise.
Compound assessment:
Compulsory participation (OD). Approved/not approved
Written assessment (OP), individual. Passed/failed
