Course description for 2026/27
Emergency Preparedness and Crises Management
HEL5022
Course description for 2026/27

Emergency Preparedness and Crises Management

HEL5022
The course aims to give students knowledge about emergency preparedness and crisis management within their field, and in collaboration with different professionals and institutions. Through participation in a full-scale exercise, students will get the opportunity to practice their professional roles in crisis management as well as develop skills in analyzing sources of information, roles, responsibilities and collaboration.

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.
No tuition fees. Semester fees and cost of course literature apply.
Theory course, elective.

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.

A survey will be sent to all students at the end of the course.

Compound assessment:

Compulsory participation (OD). Approved/not approved

Written assessment (OP), individual. Passed/failed

Generating an answer using ChatGPT or similar artificial intelligence and submitting it wholly or partially as one's own answer, is considered cheating.