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Emergency and Disaster Management

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Small logo The Emergency and Disaster Management program prepares students to deal with the exigencies of a modern natural or technological disaster. The degree requirements can all be completed via an interdisciplinary curriculum offered in a totally online/distance learning setting. Students who enter the program are exposed to solid professional practices, blended with the type of broadly-based theoretical knowledge that will take them past their initial career opportunities and serve them well as they advance in stature and position in the emergency management field over the course of their careers.

Graduates are ready to enter or advance to positions within agencies as varied as the Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency, American Red Cross (National, Regional and local chapters), Environmental Protection Agency, state and local emergency management agencies, business continuity organizations, Federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies, fire administration, and public health agencies, etc.

 

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Dr. Michael J. O'Connor Jr.
Associate Professor of Emergency and Disaster Management
SUNY Canton
115 Payson Hall
34 Cornell Drive
Canton, New York 13617
315-379-3948 oconnorm@canton.edu

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Canton, NY 13617
Phone: 315.386.7123
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Emergency and Disaster Management - B.Tech.

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  • Receive advanced education and training in emergency and disaster management
  • Learn to develop emergency and disaster community planning designs
  • Learn coordination and cooperation measures in the event of multi-agency response to emergencies and disasters
  • Learn to respond to community and special population needs in the event of emergencies and disasters
  • Learn to design emergency and disaster training exercises.

Career Opportunities:

  • Criminal justice agencies
  • Firefighting agencies
  • Emergency medical agencies
  • Medical and hospital agencies
  • City, county and state emergency and disaster response agencies
  • Private corporations and businesses
  • Regionally established emergency and disaster response agencies
  • Federal emergency and disaster response agencies

Admission Requirements:

  • Refer to the table of high school course prerequisites for admission.
  • First-year students must successfully complete the Math A Regents exam plus an additional year of defined math.
  • Students must have a high school average of at least 80.
  • Transfer admission is open to students who have completed a semester or more of study at an accredited institution of higher education. Students must have a minimum cumulative grade point average of 2.0.

Program Requirements (Curriculum 1864):

Semester I Credits

CITA 110 Intro. to Information Technology 3
ENGL 101 Expository Writing 3
MATH 111 Survey of Math 3 OR
MATH 121 College Algebra 4
PSYC 101 Introductory Psychology 3
  American History(GER4) 3
TOTAL CREDITS 15-16

Semester II Credits

MATH 141 Statistics 3
POLS 101 Intro. Gov't and Politics OR
POLS 105 Nat'l Gov't and Politics 3
Foreign Language (GER 9) 3
Arts Elective (GER 8) 3
General Elective 3
TOTAL CREDITS 15

Semester III Credits

EADM 201 Fundamentals of EADM 3
EADM 205 Risk & Hazard Impact Studies 3
SOCI 101 Introduction to Sociology 3
Other World Civil Elect (GER 6) 3
  General Elective 3
TOTAL CREDITS 15

Semester IV Credits

EADM 220 Disaster Mgmt and Preparedness 3
EADM 222 Communities: Preparedness Defense 3
  Humanities Elective (GER 7) 3
  Science Elective (GER 2) 3 - 4
  Western Civil Elect (GER 5) 3
TOTAL CREDITS 15 - 16

Semester V Credits

ACCT 315 Public Budgeting & Fiscal Mgm 3
BSAD 301 Principles of Management 3
BSAD 319 Professional Ethics 3
BSAD 375 Leadership & Decision Making 3
  U/L Liberal Arts 3
TOTAL CREDITS 15

Semester VI Credits

BSDA 310 Human Resource Management 3
BSAD 340 Management Communications 3
EADM 307 Legal Issues in E & D 3
  U/L General Elective 3
  U/L Liberal Arts 3
  U/LCore Elective 3
TOTAL CREDITS 18

Semester VII Credits

CITA 400 Quantitative Approach to Mgmt 3
EADM 400 Incident Command: System Coord & Assessment 3
EADM 430 Virtual Disaster: Training Exercise I 3
  U/L Core Elective 3
  General Elective 3
TOTAL CREDITS 15

Semester VIII Credits

EADM 435 Virtual Disaster: Training Exec. II 6
EADM 440 Internship in EADM OR
EADM 485 Senior Project OR
  Additional EADM electives 9
TOTAL CREDITS 15

Core Upper Level Electives:
BSAD 400, CITA 350, ECON 315, HSMB 301, JUST 306, JUST 315.

* Fulfills writing intensive requirement.
U/L=Upper Level Courses (300/400)
GER=General Education Requirement
NOTE:Emergency and Disaster Management program meets all ten General Education Requirements.

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