POL300/MPA 508  Emergency Management
Dr. Rick Ghere
OFFICE HOURS: mw 9:45-10:45;  thur 10-11
course requirements      course texts      course description and goals     course paper

   Dates

                    Monday                                                                            Wednesday

 January 7-9

 


Introduction

Overview of Emergency Management
   Haddow&Bullock Ch. 1
January 14-16

 

Disasters
   Haddow&Bullock Ch. 2
   Cooper&Block Ch. 1

Emergency Manager
   FEMA, Emergency Manager: An Orientation
     on the Position Unit 1
   NPR, "'Citizen Kane' Oscar Fails to Sell
      at Auction" [listen to audio]
 

January 21-23

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Emergency Manager
   FEMA, Emergency Manager: An Orientation
     on the Position Unit 2
  

 

January 28-30

 

 FEMA: Historical
   Cooper&Block Ch. 3

Emergency Manager/HSA Stress Test
  FEMA, Emergency Manager: An Orientation
     on the Position Unit 7
   Kettl Ch. 1
 
 February 4-6

 

Homeland Security as Coordination
   Kettl Ch. 2
   FEMA, NIMS Self-Study
 

Reshaping the Bureaucracy
   Kettl Ch. 3
   Cooper&Block Ch. 4
 February 11-13

 

Montgomery County Emergency Management
Location: Rybold Bldg.
117 South Main St, Suite 721
Dayton, OH 45422

Reshaping the Bureaucracy
    Williams, Strengthening Homeland
Security pp. 6-44
Williams Presentation at Texas A&M
 February 18-20

 

Federalism, Political Culture, Localism
   Kettl Ch. 4
   Cooper&Block Ch. 2
 

Federalism, Political Culture, Localism
    Cooper&Block Ch. 12
 February 25-27

 

Guest Speaker: Steve Jez
Disease Outbreak Preparation
pandemic slide presentation
Fowler, "Are States Ready for the Flu?" State News. Jan 05
"." CDC

Traditional EM Phases: Mitigation
   FEMA, Emergency Manager: An Orientation
     on the Position Unit 3
   Haddow&Bullock 75-83

March 3-5

 
Midterm Examination
Preparation--class does not meet

Traditional EM Phases: Response
   FEMA, Emergency Manager: An Orientation
     on the Position Unit 5
   Haddow&Bullock 75-83
MIDTERM EXAM DUE!!-[major late penalty]
 March 10-12

 

 Guidance for Course Paper
Have Preliminary Paper
Research Completed

Brownsville TX and the Great Wall:
A postmodern interpretation
recommended reading ug's/required for grad. students:
Garrett, "The Rise and Transformation of the Department of Homeland Security and the Border Fence.."

March 24-26

 


Spring Break

Traditional EM Phases: Recovery
     FEMA, Emergency Manager: An Orientation
           on the Position Unit 6
     Haddow&Bullock 155-160; 169-171
CAN Presentation

March 31-April 2

 

 


Ohio Emergency Management Agency
Guest Speaker:
Nancy Dragani, Director
OEMA
Sheets, "State Emergency Management and Homeland Security." Book of the States. 2005
"Great Dayton Flood"

The Political Costs of Balancing Risk
   Cooper&Block Ch.11and Kettl Ch. 5

April 7-9

 

Where is Leadership?
   Waugh "The Political Costs of Failure in the
    Katrina and Rita Disasters"

           Stander Symposium--no class

for those interested:
Moynihan.  "Blinkered by Formalism..."
 

April 14-16

 

HSA, Security, and Liberty
   Kettl Ch. 6
   Haddow&Bullock Ch. 9
Guest Speakers: Emergency Management at UD

Disaster Capitalism (a critique)
   Klein "Disaster Capitalism" Harpers Oct. 2007
   on e-reserve under POL 300 password=em1
COURSE PAPER DUE!!-[major late penalty]
Attach File:   hillmegl@notes.udayton.edu

April 21-23

 

Conclusions: HSA Stress Test
   Kettl Ch. 7
   Cooper&Block Ch. 13
 

Future of Emergency Management
   Haddow&Bullock Ch. 10