READ: About the Course and the assignments you will have to carry out

This course is only eight weeks long.  In this course, you will be required to hand in a final project which will be made up the completion of community research you will do during the first six weeks, and then you will pull it all together in the final week. 

Each week you will also encounter one discussion, a reading with a quiz or assignment on the reading, and a practical research and (writing) assignment. 

The practical research and writing assignment is very important.  It will be one piece to your overall final project and cumulative in nature.  So, you will start writing in Module 2 and continue writing pieces for the final project with each Module.  Therefore, the more work you put in through this process, the less work you will have to do at the end.  I will give you feedback and you will be able to rewrite  and re-submit each piece of  weekly writing if you feel you need to, so that it is ready for the your ffinal paper submission. 

You will spend the final week writing  your final installment of your paper related to community resilience.  

For the good of the class, you may find and send the class YouTube or other public source videos or articles on the topics we are studying and share the link so we can all see it and comment on it.  

 You will learn communication and community organizing skills as we progress through the course. 

We will also complete FEMA certificates during the course.  You will need to obtain a FEMA Student Identification Designation in order to take the embedded courses.  In case  you have not already done so, we will provide the website link.  You will be registering as a FEMA student, which will set up a permanent record of all the certificates you will earn over the two years you are in this Bachelor Degree Program.  These courses are embedded into some of our courses, and the certificates are the ones you will need to gain entry level jobs.  If you are hoping for supervisory level jobs or positions in Emergency Management or Public Safety/Homeland Security you can take any of the FEMA courses on your own to make you more employable, and make you eligible to take in person courses to deepen your understanding and knowledge.

Prof Puett