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Learn to become an effective leader in your industry by studying UniSQ’s Bachelor of Business (Emergent Leadership). Our graduates are prepared for the lifelong learning and growth mindset essential for forging a career as trusted leaders. At UniSQ you will build your professional identity and develop confident skills in ethical decision making, teamwork, complex problem solving, negotiation and influence, and person-centred communication, whilst gaining practical experience while working on case studies and a final-year group project together with industry partners.

If your long-term goal is leadership, start here with this online business degree. With this specialisation you’ll gain skills to manage teams and solve problems. Learn about resilience. Prepare to adapt. Become a balanced manager with a global mindset.

Bachelor of Business (Emergent Leadership)

Emergency Management Policy and Governance

Introduction to Emergency Management

Introduction to Environment & Climate Emergency

This subject examines the application of general management principles to the particular context of emergency management where normal challenges are further complicated by system failures, inadequate information, complex multi-agency and whole of community approaches and a challenging political and social environment.The subject will examine the management principles through the cycle of emergency management involving the prevention and mitigation phase, preparedness phase, response phase, and recovery phase. It will also explore specific management issues that are central to effective emergency management practice including the impact of socio-technical systems design and human factors.This subject is an intermediate (level 2) emergency management subject focused on emergency management in disasters. This subject will present a range of examples upon which to reflect, in order to critically analyse the cycle of emergency management.

Emergency Management Cycle

This subject examines policy and governance in emergency management. Students will examine policy and governance frameworks and structures from a local, state, national and international perspective. The subject will explore the policy and governance processes, structures and frameworks that span the public, private and not-for-profit sectors using a series of case studies that have real-world applicability.This subject is an introductory (level 1) emergency management subject focused on understanding policy and governance in the context of emergency management.

Emergency management is when our communities, the public sector (government agencies), the private sector (businesses) and the not-for-profit sector (charities) work together to strengthen society’s capacity to withstand, plan for, respond to and recover from disasters. This subject will provide you with an introductory knowledge on the broader concepts of emergency management. In this subject, you will explore local, national, and international case studies of emergency management in numerous contexts that are applicable and transferable to any discipline.This an introductory subject (level 1) to emergency management. Consequently, the assessment tasks allow you to explore a topic in the context of emergency management that is relevant to your interests and has real world applicability regardless of your specific area of study. Therefore, if you have a passion for enhancing society’s disaster resilience to natural hazards (e.g. bushfires, floods, cyclones, tsunamis, etc.) and man-made disasters (e.g. humanitarian crises, acts of terrorism, environmental incidents, etc.) then this subject is for you.

This subject was previously known as Topics in Sustainability.This subject enables students to understand, reflect and investigate some of the main sustainability problems (e.g. urbanisation, consumptions, greenhouse gas emissions) that the world faces now and in the future, including the relationships between these issues, and to research and put into professional practice the newly developed knowledge and skill.Please Note: If it’s your first time studying a Curtin University subject you’ll need to complete their compulsory ‘Academic Integrity Program’. It only takes two hours to complete online, and provides you with vital information about studying with Curtin University. The Academic Integrity Program is compulsory, so if it’s not completed your subject grades will be withheld.Find out more about the <a href="https://www.curtin.edu.au/students/essentials/rights/academic-integrity/aip/" target="_blank">Academic Integrity module</a>.

Tally up the greatest sustainability issues facing the world today. Predict what problems may arise in the future. Gain a theoretical perspective on topics such as population, climate and food production. Formulate your own policy solutions.

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