Program Overview
Integrated Emergency Management Program
Overview
The Integrated Emergency Management program is designed to prepare graduates as leaders who can manage a multidisciplinary team in the application of standard, ethical practices, procedures, and technologies to identify threats, assess risk, and implement organizational, interagency, integrated emergency management solutions to enhance resilience of the nation.
Mission
The program's mission is to prepare graduates as leaders who are able to manage a multidisciplinary team in the application of standard, ethical practices, procedures, and technologies to identify threats, assess risk, and implement organizational, interagency, integrated emergency management solutions to enhance resilience of the nation.
Description
The Integrated Emergency Management program builds national resilience capacities through courses on standard practices, procedures, and technologies to collect information, conduct risk assessment, and develop effective plans for emergency management, response, leadership, relief, and recovery. Through a combination of lectures, discussion, simulation exercises, and applied real-world scenarios, students learn team organization, professional ethics, interagency operations, and resilience through the core principles of contemporary relevance, integration, cooperation, multi-agency coordination, and interoperability.
Educational Objectives
- Have relevant technological skills, knowledge, and abilities for employment as a manager in the SSDEC sector.
- Work, lead, and communicate effectively in a team to achieve common goals.
- Apply standards, ethical practices, procedures, and technologies to collect information, conduct risk assessment, and develop effective programs.
- Implement organizational, interagency solutions to strengthen the SSDEC community and build national resilience capacities.
- Expand knowledge and capabilities through continuing education, certification, and other lifelong learning opportunities.
- Fulfill civic duties and responsibilities through local, national, or global service.
Learning Outcomes
- Develop knowledge of principles, theory, and frameworks applicable to solving problems related to organizational integrated emergency management.
- Apply research methodologies and techniques to identify the broader role that organizational integrated emergency management plays in the resilience of the nation and society as a whole.
- Analyze the organizational, legal, social, and ethical problems relevant to organizational integrated emergency management and formulate resilience-based solutions.
- Communicate effectively through written and oral methods comprehensive risk management practices as the basis for developing integrated emergency management programs.
- Work independently in a collaborative setting to generate innovative solutions for complex crisis situations within integrated emergency management contexts.
- Take responsibility for self-improvement to foster a life-long learning culture.
- Apply integrated emergency management knowledge, skills, and abilities including the ability to synthesize different or conflicting ideas to formulate effective data-driven outcomes.
Program Structure
The program offers three levels of study: Diploma, Higher Diploma, and Bachelor of Science.
- Diploma: 2 years, 60 credits
- Higher Diploma: 3 years, 90 credits
- Bachelor of Science: 4 years, 120 credits
Courses
The program includes a range of courses, including:
- General Education courses, such as Management Fundamentals, Introduction to Academic Studies, and English.
- Core courses, such as Introduction to IEM, Introduction to Risk Management, and Creating Emergency Management Plans.
- Elective courses, such as Awareness and Training Program Development, Comparative Approaches to BCM, and Public Health Emergency Management.
Study Plan
The study plan outlines the ideal full-time study schedule, with 5 courses per semester. The plan includes:
- Semester 1: Introduction to IEM, Introduction to Academic Studies, General Education Mathematics, English 2, and Emotional Intelligence and Personal Resilience.
- Semester 2: Introduction to Risk Management, Islamic Studies, Introduction to BCM, Emirates Studies, and Ethical Studies.
- Semester 3: Introduction to Crisis Leadership/SSDEC Planning, Introduction to Geographic Information Systems, Creating Emergency Management Plans, Introduction to Emergency Response, and Arabic Studies.
- Semester 4: English 3, Fundamentals of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and elective courses.
- Semester 5: Disaster Relief and Recovery, Management Fundamentals, Environment, Health and Safety, Tactical Emergency Management, and elective courses.
- Semester 6: Resilience Program Design and Evaluation, Working with the Public and Media in Emergencies, Strategic IEM, Introduction to Research Methods, and elective courses.
- Semester 7: Systems and Technology, Emergency Operation Center Management, Workplace Secondment/Internship, and elective courses.
- Semester 8: Comparative Approaches to IEM, Project in SSDEC Management, and elective courses.
Entry Requirements
Students must meet Rabdan Academy's general admissions requirements.
Faculty Members
The program is taught by a team of experienced faculty members, including:
- Dr. Carlos Samuel, Assistant Professor
- Dr. Elarbi Elkaroui, Assistant Professor
- Dr. Glenn Fiel Fernandez, Associate Professor
- Kyoo-Man Ha, Assistant Professor
- Dr. Stern Mwakalimi Kita, Assistant Professor
- Dr. Khairilmizal Bin Samsudin, Assistant Professor