The Institute for Rural Emergency Management
Business Continuity Area
Learning Objectives:
- Identify and prioritize critical business functions and processes, their priorities, and interdependencies;
- Assess organizational risk including threat, vulnerabilities and consequences;
- Analyze impacts to critical business functions and processes resulting from disruptions and disaster scenarios and identify techniques that can be effectively deployed to quantify and qualify such impacts;
- Design, develop, implement and exercise business continuity plans;
- Identify the three phases of a crisis and describe strategies for reducing the impact.
- Gain a broad strategic perspective of the Critical Infrastructure Protection efforts of the United States and the Department of Homeland Security.
- Explore quantitative metrics derived from economic interchange and business relationships.
Business Continuity Area, B.S. Degree |
Semester Hours |
| Major Requirements | 36 |
| CDM 3000 Crisis & Disaster Management | 3 |
| CDM 3400 Community Mitigation and Recovery | 3 |
| CDM 4200 Disaster Management Technology | 3 |
| CDM 4400 Research Issues in Crisis and Disaster Mgmt | 3 |
| CDM 4800 Integrated Emergency Management | 3 |
| CDM 4900 Technology Application Studies | 3 |
| CDM 4910 Field Exercise Projects | 3 |
| CDM 4990 Practicum in Crisis & Disaster Mgmt | 3-6 |
| CDM 4715 Business Continuity Planning | 3 |
| CDM 4735 Critical Infrastructure | 3 |
| CDM 4745 Crisis Management | 3 |
| Departmentally approved technical electives | 3 |
| General Education Requirements | 48 |
| Free Electives | 36 |
| Minimum Total | 120 |
BUSINESS CONTINUITY CERTIFICATE - 12 Semester Hours Total
CDM |
3000 |
Intro to Crisis & Disaster Management |
3 |
CDM |
4715 |
Business Continuity Planning |
3 |
CDM |
4735 |
Critical Infrastructure |
3 |
CDM |
4745 |
Crisis Management |
3 |
