Crisis Management and Disaster Relief

About this subject

• What you'll learn

  Upon fulfilling the requirements of this subject, students will have the skills and knowledge 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

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-National Resilience: Crisis Response and Emergency Management (no longer available)

Others

Note: Level 2 subjects normally assume an introductory level of prior knowledge in this area, e.g. from studying related Level 1 subjects or other relevant experience.

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 Students with an Academic Standing of Suspension or Exclusion who have enrolled in units through OUA will be withdrawn.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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