This course builds on existing leadership and public service knowledge with the application of emergency management principles under the shared perspectives of social-medical outlooks. It analyzes current trends and issues within emergency management through a social-medical paradigm and their impact on the public service models and leadership outcomes, including leadership challenges, ineffective communication and processes, and emergency response software, and their impact on medical and social infrastructure,
Prerequisites: Only open to students admitted into the MA in Public Service Leadership (PSLD-MA)
Outcomes: Identify social and medical issues in EM practices; Apply the concepts of EM within a social-medical context; Describe EM social and medical organizations and structures and their relation to public service; Apply concepts of leadership to public service, EM, and other sectors.
Prerequisites: Only open to students admitted into the MA in Public Service Leadership (PSLD-MA)
Outcomes: Identify social and medical issues in EM practices; Apply the concepts of EM within a social-medical context; Describe EM social and medical organizations and structures and their relation to public service; Apply concepts of leadership to public service, EM, and other sectors.