DSC - Domestic Security
Prerequisite: *ASC2560. This course will prepare students to participate in unmanned vehicle system operations within a disaster management context through the integration of emergency management theoretical frameworks and technical skill applications with an emphasis on preparedness, mitigation, and response mission-areas.
This course emphasizes to students the multi-faceted communications necessary between local, state, federal agencies, and the media to minimize and prepare for hazards, disasters, and terrorist activity. Issues of public policy/administration, law, criminal justice and the social/behavioral impacts of communication protocols and methodologies will be considered throughout the course. It introduces students to the fundamental concepts, principles, and practices of communications relations in a risk environment as well as effective leadership in an emergency management setting.