Courses
Emergency Management
Emergency Management Courses within the School are:
Emergency Management has been taught at CSU since 1995. It was brought into the University from Tasmania, where it was initially developed in 1988, by a team of Tasmanian emergency management professionals to provide training in emergency management planning to local government and emergency services managers. Initially the course was a one year three subject course, based solely around emergency management planning. It was then developed further into a three-year part-time associate diploma course presented face to face, with the inclusion of operations management and recovery management components to compliment the planning subjects originally provided. Following on from this, the course was then expanded into a six-year, part-time, distance education undergraduate degree course, which it is today. In 2000 the Master of Emergency Management course was offered for the first time. Both programs have the distinction of being the first fully distance education courses of their type offered in the world.
The courses cover the study of emergency management planning, emergency operations management, emergency recovery management and general emergency risk management. Studies within the course rely heavily on practical application by students of the skills and knowledge learnt. In this way, not only the student and university benefit from the successful results of the studies conducted, but the emergency management industry also benefits.
The courses contain a core of subjects which enhance the knowledge and professional capacities of people involved in occupations related to the operations and administration within the emergency management industry. The course develops their intellectual capacity to stand back and analyse the processes through which emergency management is administered and practiced. The core emergency management subjects are supplemented in the undergraduate program by a range of subjects including sociology, psychology and management.