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| Semester: | Fall 2020 |
| Number: | 0616-680-045 |
| Instructor: | Nicholas Cagliuso |
| Note: | Online, Asynchronous |
| Location: | Online |
| Credits: | 3 |
| Course Meets: | September 14 - December 14 |
| Notes: |
Core Curriculum Course |
| Course Materials: | View Text Books |
| Description: |
Emergency Management research has become an essential tool for the modern day disaster manager. Accordingly, students in this course will acquire the skills and knowledge to evaluate, assess and synthesize data employing current research methods, allowing them to employ an evidence-based strategy to disaster decision making. |
| Learning Goals: |
• Understand, discriminate and summarize the processes of scientific discovery and theory development;• Recognize the processes of logic, reasoning, causation, evidence and theories in scientific inquiry;• Debate the connection between inquiry, theory, and knowledge application;• Understand, compare and identify the various forms of conceptual framework for conducting scholarly inquiry;• Analyze concepts, theories, and the logic of arguments in disaster research;• Create, design and present credible quantitative methods and survey in disaster research;• Describe the construction, use and verification of theories, models and conceptual frameworks in systems of human inquiry;• Assess, discriminate and analyze the concepts, theories, and logic of the arguments in published scholarly research;• Accept the ethical, social and political aspects of the production of scholarly knowledge *The learning goals displayed here are those for one section of this course as offered in a recent semester, and are provided for the purpose of information only. The exact learning goals for each course section in a specific semester will be stated on the syllabus distributed at the start of the semester, and may differ in wording and emphasis from those shown here. |
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