Welcome

Welcome to your course of study at Charles Sturt University. This Course Resource CD has been provided to you as a means of giving additional support to your studies in Emergency Management. The CD is provided to students undertaking studies in the Bachelor of Social Science (Emergency Management) and also the Master of Emergency Management courses. The CD provides you with a number of valuable resources. Some of these are actual resources on the CD, whereas some are links to online resources within the university and elsewhere. Included in the CD are resources relating to your development of professional practice and learning portfolios, electronic versions of Emergency Management Australia's Emergency Manual series publications, links to CSU Student Services' support programs and links to a range of Australian and international Emergency Management web sites and online resources.

This Course Resources CD is provided as a starting point for you to commence collecting your own Emergency Management resources during your studies. Actively collecting and maintaining a record of your own resources is an important study skill. Pragmatically this collection of your own resources in an organised way is important because some of the internet links on this CD may be out of date. This unfortunately is one of the drawbacks of providing web addresses. They are often out of date before you can use them. In these cases I would suggest you go to the organisation's main home page and then use their online search option to locate the particular sub-page from there. Alternately you can use one of the many online search engines, eg Google, Google Scholar (accessed through the CSU library website), Altavista, Mamma, Dogpile, Yahoo Search or MSN Search, to search out the required information.

We hope that the Course Resource CD provides you with some useful resources that benefit your studies with us. Should you have any comments or suggestions regarding the CD or ways in which we can enhance it, please don't hesitate to contact any of the Emergency Management staff. Your comments and suggestions are very welcome.

Good luck with your studies and we look forward to ongoing contact with you throughout your course of study.

About the Bachelor of Social Science (Emergency Management) course

The course was initially developed in 1988, by a team of Tasmanian Emergency Management professionals. The aim was to provide training to local government and emergency services’ managers in emergency management planning. 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 emergency operations management and emergency recovery management subjects to compliment the planning subjects originally provided. Following on from this, the course was then expanded into a part-time, distance education undergraduate degree course, which it is today.

The course comprises 20 subjects, 9 emergency management subjects (four of which are double subjects) and 11 additional subjects drawn from the fields of Psychology, Sociology, Management, Human Resource Management, Law and Philosophy. Three of the Emergency Management subjects are double subjects, i.e. equivalent to two normal subjects. The course has been designed to provide a theoretical foundation with practical application of the emergency management concepts, principles and structures contained within it. The course is currently offered over three teaching sessions per year (Autumn, Spring and Summer), which means that the course can be completed in four years. However, because of full fee paying issues and time constraints for many students over summer, it is proposed to make the Summer session an optional session with effect from 2009 and therefore the course will then become a standard six year part-time distance education degree course.

The course is split into three specific Emergency Management study areas: Emergency Management Planning, Emergency Operations Management and Emergency Recovery Management. The subjects linked to each of these areas are:

Emergency Management Planning

EMG100 - Introduction to Emergency Management

EMG101 - Emergency Management Planning 1 (Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment)

EMG102 - Emergency Management Planning 2 (Critical Decision Making)

EMG103 - Emergency Management Planning 3 (Emergency Management Plan)

EMG201 - Emergency Management Planning 4 (SOPs, Training Needs Analysis and Exercise Writing)

Emergency Operations Management

EMG206 - Emergency Operations Management 6 (Double subject focused on the analysis of the pre-impact and impact phases of an emergency event)

EMG208 - Emergency Operations Management 8 (Double subject focused on the analysis of the post-impact phase of an emergency event and the analysis and comparison of a hypothetical re-occurrence of the event today)

Emergency Recovery Management

EMG300 - Emergency Recovery Management 1 (Double subject focused on the concepts, principles and practices of recovery management, recovery needs and a community analysis)

EMG307 - Emergency Recovery Management 7 (Double subject focused on the analysis of a community's recovery needs and development of recovery management strategies for a specific community)

Here is an example of the current course progression. This may at times change and therefore once again you should check the online course information or contact the course coordinator to confirm subject progression.

Current course progression (2007)

In 1999 we commenced offering two of our undergraduate subjects, EMG100 and EMG102, as elective subjects to students undertaking the Pre-Hospital Care degree courses, and in 2002 year we commenced offering four of our subjects as electives within the Bachelor of Policing course.

Credit and RPL in the Bachelor of Social Sciences (Emergency Management)

We offer various credits to students who may have completed relevant undergraduate studies in allied fields, completed appropriate subjects within other programs or have undertaken work/ industry based training programs in areas allied to the course’s general content and direction of study. Examples of the type of previous study or training that may qualify for credit would be the attainment of a Certificate IV in Workplace Training and Assessment or a Certificate IV in Frontline Management from a TAFE or Registered Training Organisation, or an Associate Diploma in Emergency Management from another institution.

If you believe that you qualify for credit or that you are or will be undertaking studies or training concurrently with this course that might qualify for credit, please contact the Course Coordinator to discuss your situation and the options available.

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