Core: Complete all courses (18 credits)

SOC 723: Social Theory
SOC 700: Qualitative Methods
SOC 701: Quantitative Methods
EMGT 720: Emergency Management Theory
EMGT 730: Advanced Research Methods
EMGT 614: Spatial Analysis in Emergency Management

Disaster Phases: Complete at least two courses from two of the following four Disaster Stages and one course from each of the remaining two Disaster Stages (18 credits). Courses should be taken in the order listed. Courses taken at the undergraduate level (400) cannot be retaken at the graduate level (600).

Preparedness

1. EMGT 611: Community Disaster Preparedness
2. EMGT 712: Hazards Risk Assessment Theory and Practice
3. GEOG 656: Geographic Information Systems

Mitigation

1. EMGT 613: Building Disaster Resilient Communities
2. EMGT 721: Hazard Mitigation Theory and Practice
3. POLS 653: Environmental Policy and Politics

Response

1. EMGT 631: Disaster Response Operations and Leadership
2. EMGT 732: Disaster Response Theory and Practice
3. COMM 785: Advanced Crisis Communication

Recovery

1. EMGT 683: Holistic Disaster Recovery
2. EMGT 782: Damage Recovery Theory and Practice
3. ECS 760: Environmental Impact Assessment

Disaster Area Studies - Social and Behavioral Sciences: Select three courses from each area (18 credits). Courses taken at the undergraduate level (400) cannot be retaken at the graduate level (600).

Social Structure, Social Institutions, and Social Processes
EMGT 681: Disaster Analysis
SOC 605: Community Development
SOC 626: Sociology of Medicine
SOC 641: Sociology of Death
SOC 631: Environmental Sociology

Social and Cultural Context of Disasters
SOC 610: Social Inequality
SOC 643: International Disasters
SOC 645: Special Populations & Disasters
ANTH 658: Indians of the Great Plains
ANTH 661: Germans from Russia
ANTH 662: Cultural Ecology

Disaster Area Studies - The Public and Private Sector: Select one course (3 credits)

EMGT 661: Business Continuity & Crisis Management
EMGT 663: Voluntary Agency Disaster Services
COMM 683: Organizational Communication I
BUSN 630: Legal and Social Environment of Business

Practicum: (9 credits)
EMGT 795: Emergency Management Practicum

Electives: (9 credits)
Courses may include didactic courses, seminars, independent study and/or field research.

Thesis (6 credits)

Dissertation (15 credits)

TOTAL = 96 credits