Program Overview

Disaster Management (PBDDM)

Program Overview

Start your career in disaster and emergency management with our specialized program. It's perfect for anyone with a bachelor's degree who wants to make a difference.

Program Details

• Location: New Westminster
• Duration: 2 years
• Credits: 60 credits

Is this program right for you?

Serve in a dynamic and growing field. If you have a bachelor's degree and are interested in pursuing a career in the fields of disaster and emergency management, this program is for you.

Program Strengths

• Learn from experienced instructors who are experts in their field.
• Study at a dynamic campus where we train public safety professionals every day.
• Get the personalized attention you need to help you succeed in the program.

What you will learn?

Subjects

• Emergency and disaster management contexts and skills
• Leadership, management, and organizational awareness
• Systems thinking and business practices
• Communication and information management

Through active engagement with challenges and problems drawn from real-world practice, graduates will:

• Gain a foundation in the core concepts, issues, trends, and practices that inform emergency and disaster management in Canadian and international contexts;
• Analyze and apply the appropriate communications tools to interact effectively with multiple stakeholders in complex, stressful, and ambiguous situations; and
• Manage all components of an emergency program, such as planning, prevention, mitigation, response, and recovery.

Program Requirements

• Students must successfully complete all 60 credits (20 courses) of the program at a rate of five courses per semester.

Program Format

• All courses in the program are offered at JIBC's New Westminster campus.

Tuition & Fees

Additional Fees

• All full-time international students will be automatically charged for the following services.
  • ~$198.00: Temporary medical insurance provided by Guard.Me (charged in the first term only)
  • ~$61.98: Student Union fees (charged every term)
  • ~273.00: Student Union Health and Dental Plan (charged once a year until graduation)

Admission Requirements

• To be eligible for this program, students are required:
  • To provide proof of completion of an undergraduate Bachelor’s Degree from a recognized post-secondary institution in Canada or an equivalent credential from a recognized institution outside of Canada.
  • Meet JIBC’s English language proficiency requirements if their undergraduate studies were completed in a language other than English.
  • To provide a coloured copy of the applicant's passport identification page.

Courses

Term 1: Contexts in Disaster Management

• ESMS-1300 Foundations of Emergency Management: Planning and Preparation
• CRES-1851 Introduction to Conflict Analysis and Resolution
• ETHS-1100 Applied Ethics
• SOCI-1100 Reconciling Colonial Practices
• ESMS-2400 Introduction to Risk Management

Term 2: Behind the Scenes

• ESMS-2300 Foundations of Emergency Management: Response and Recovery
• ESMS-2310 Human Behaviour and Social Constructs of Disasters
• INTL-3410 Introduction to Intelligence Analysis
• ESMS-3360 Exercise Program Management
• ESMS-4220 Ethical Issues in Public Safety

Term 3: Resiliency and Continuity

• ESMS-3330 Technology Applications in Security & Emergency Management Environments
• ESMS-3340 Business Continuity Management **
• ESMS-3500 Crisis Communications and Management **
• ESMS-2450 Critical Infrastructure Protection Systems
• ESMS-4310 Resilience and Recovery

Term 4: Management in Complex Environments

• ESMS-4300 Current Trends in Security and Disaster Management
• ESMS-4250 Policy Development and Implementation
• ESMS-3420 Safety and Security Management for Major Events
• ESMS-4420 Planning for Terrorism, CBRNE and Major Health Crises
• ESMS-4900 Research Project