EM 240 - Emergency Management Work-Based Learning

1.0-5.0 Credits
Provides students “real world experiences” inemergency management. Students learn to work within time constraints and are exposed to appropriate workplace behaviors. Students will have opportunities to refine the core skills they have learned from the courses or curriculum. Previously EMERG 291.
Prerequisite EM 249 with a minimum grade of 2.0.
Course-level Learning Objectives (CLOs)
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

Obtain emergency management work experience through volunteering, job shadowing, interning, and/or agreeing to be evaluated by a current supervisor.
Set workplace learning objectives, develop a plan for accomplishing those objectives, document the learning process, and assess their success in reaching objectives.
Write a career path plan communicating where they want to be in their careers five years in the future and the steps they will take to make it happen.

Course Typically Offered
Full Year