Crisis Management and Disaster Relief

About this subject

• What you'll learn

  On successful completion of this subject, you will be able to:

  1. Explain the concept of resilience as it applies to national security, preparedness planning, crisis response and emergency management
  2. Identify key threats to and vulnerabilities of critical national infrastructure
  3. Apply risk analysis models to a range of crisis response options available to government or business organisations
  4. Prioritise resilience planning tasks in accordance with business continuity principles appropriate to private and public sector organisations
  5. Critically evaluate coordination mechanisms between levels of government, across public and private organisations and among private sector organisations
  6. Employ emergency management principles to assess the applicability of coordination methods for different crisis scenarios.

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• About Macquarie University

Entry requirements

Prior study

You must have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject:

one of

• MAQ-PICX1011-New Security Challenges
• MAQ-PICX1014-International Security in the 20th Century

Equivalent subjects

You should not enrol in this subject if you have successfully completed any of the following subject(s) because they are considered academically equivalent:

• MAQ-PICX213 (Not currently available)

Others

Pre-requisite
50cp at 1000 level or above
NCCW (pre-2020 units)
PICT213, PICX213

Additional requirements

• Other requirements -

  Students who have an Academic Standing of Suspension or Exclusion under Macquarie University's Academic Progression Policy are not permitted to enrol in OUA units offered by Macquarie University. Students with an Academic Standing of Suspension or Exclusion who have enrolled in units through OUA will be withdrawn.

Study load

0.125 EFTSL

This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.

Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.

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