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Disaster Management Online - Bachelor's, Master's, Doctor Ph.D. Degree.
Faculty of Business & Media via distance learning
Disaster Management via distance learning
This program of disaster management reviews the organization and management of resources and responsibilities for dealing with all humanitarian aspects of emergencies, in particular preparedness, response and recovery in order to lessen the impact of disasters. Disasters may be geophysical (e.g. earthquakes, landslides, tsunamis and volcanic activity), hydrological (e.g. avalanches and floods), climatological (e.g. extreme temperatures, drought and wildfires), meteorological (e.g. cyclones and storms/wave surges) and biological (e.g. disease epidemics and insect or animal plagues).
Academic Supervisor : Anna Sofie Helen Bolin
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Disaster Management Online via distance learning
Specialist, Bachelor's, Master's, Doctor - Disaster Management.
This module is applicable to Specialist, Expert, Bachelor's, Master's & Ph.D. (Doctor) Degree Programs. This academic program is designed at the postgraduate level (Master’s or Doctoral). This module may also be adapted to complete the course requirements of Specialist, Expert Diploma or Bachelor’s Degree. A further option is the enrollment into each of the courses listed within this specialization module. This module may be combined or completed with other modules from this faculty. For example: Conflict Resolution - Criminology - Cyber Security - Environmental Health - Fire Science - Geopolitics & Geostrategy - Meteorology - Military Strategy - Occupational Safety & Health - Security & Emergency Management - Security & Safety Studies .
Specialist - Expert Diploma - Disaster Management Online
Tuition Fee: 1.050 Euros (1.350 US$) ... 1.470 Euros (1.890 US$).
Specialist - Expert Diploma Online: 15 ... 21 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Disaster Management via distance learning = Academic credits - Select 5 courses for the online diploma of Specialist or 7 courses for the Expert Diploma from the total of courses from the specialization module.
Bachelor's Degree - Disaster Management Online
Tuition Fee: Min. 3.510 Euros (4.420 US$) ... Max. 6.800 Euros (8.700 US$).
Bachelor's Degree Online: 130 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Disaster Management via distance learning = Academic credits + 40 credits in General Education (may be transferred from previous education and professional experience) + Additional courses may be selected from other modules in the Faculty of Business & Media from Bircham International University if required. This selection must be approved by the Distance Learning University Education Board. For example: Security & Emergency Management.
Master's Degree - Disaster Management Online
Tuition Fee: Min. 4.680 Euros (6.120 US$) ... Max. 7.020 Euros (9.180 US$).
Master's Degree Online: 36 ... 54 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Disaster Management via distance learning = Academic credits + Additional courses may be selected from other modules in the Faculty of Business & Media from Bircham International University if required. This selection must be approved by the Distance Learning University Education Board. For example: Security & Emergency Management. + 13 Academic credits (Research methodology and final project or thesis. More info...).
Doctor Ph.D. Degree - Disaster Management Online
Tuition Fee: Min. 5.850 Euros (7.650 US$) ... Max. 9.360 Euros (12.240 US$).
Doctor Ph.D. Degree Online: 45 ... 72 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Disaster Management via distance learning = Academic credits + Additional courses may be selected from other modules in the Faculty of Business & Media from Bircham International University if required. This selection must be approved by the Distance Learning University Education Board. For example: Security & Emergency Management. + 18 Academic credits (Research methodology and final project or thesis. More info...).
Payment plans are available upon request up to 36 monthly installments. More info...
BIU adapts each Distance Learning Higher Education degree program to the needs of each student. More info...
Disaster Management Online
Courses list (each subject accounts for 3 academic credits):
1 BIU Earned Credit = 1 USA Semester Credit (15 hours of learning) = 2 ECTS Credits (30 hours of study).
You may study any subject as an independent online continuing education course. More info...
Drinking Water & Health
This course examines the principles and requirements of public water supply for the protection of public health. It covers topics related to the characterization of water quality and sources, water treatment, distribution systems, and health hazards, epidemiology, risk assessment, in addition to surveillance and regulatory needs to assure safe public water supplies.
Academic Supervisor: Monish Gunawardana
Hygiene & Safety
This course introduces the principles of industrial and community hygiene and safety. It examines the anticipation, recognition, evaluation, and control of hazards to health and safety. It covers control methods and hygiene sampling equipment. Also, it helps developing skills in occupational health and safety hazard recognition in a variety of cases.
Academic Supervisor: Monish Gunawardana
Security & Safety Studies
This course studies the complex and rapidly changing field of security and safety. It assesses risks and threats considering the environment, continuous technological advancements, and new needs concerning enterprise security, risk management, occupational safety, and the protection of citizens.
Academic Supervisor: Monish Gunawardana
Food Preservation
This course examines the fundamental principles of food preservation namely, freezing and thawing, thermal processing and canning, fermentation, and dehydration. It investigates the major causes of food microbial and chemical degradation and how to preserve its nutritional value. It also highlights topics on food safety and consumer appeal.
Academic Supervisor: Boris Wydoff
Food Policy & Safety
This course examines all aspects of food safety and policy namely consumer perception of nutritional risk and the regulatory and legal issues of labeling, sanitation, and biotechnology. It addresses the role of public health in monitoring and assessing nutrition, the access to food, safe food supply, and national nutrition policy.
Academic Supervisor: Jorge Poveda Arias
Infectious Diseases
This course explores the methods used in epidemiology and their application to the critical appraisal of clinical, epidemiological, and health administration for evidence-based management of health care organizations, improvement of delivery of health services, and for creating health policies. An emphasis will be placed on understanding the relationships between the host, the parasite, and the environment in infectious disease investigations.
Academic Supervisor: Jose W. Rodriguez
Security Risk Analysis
This course provides an in-depth examination of risk analysis, security threats, countermeasures, the security planning process, security audits, and associated analytical tools. Managers require an understanding of the nature of the hazards, risks, losses and the incident management measures to be consequently implemented.
Academic Supervisor: Venceslau Cassul
Health Program Planning
This course presents a systems approach to the planning of effective health services to meet the needs of communities. Plans include effective and culturally appropriate implementation strategies, managing planning process, work plans, stakeholders, negotiation, and working with groups.
Academic Supervisor: Monish Gunawardana
Evacuation & Risk Management
This course considers the emergency risk management process, communication and consultation principles, exploring risk, facilitation, public speaking, working with groups, working with communities, and continuous improvement. Evacuation management is a complex process involving crucial decision making, various phases, and a multiplicity of management issues to enable the implementation of evacuation as an intervention strategy.
Academic Supervisor: Anna Sofie Helen Bolin
Crisis Recovery Center
This course examines the coordinated process of supporting disaster-affected communities in the reconstruction of physical infrastructure and restoration of emotional, social, economic, and physical well-being. Emergency coordination centers provide a focus for the management of information, resources, and the strategic coordination of activities to meet community and organizational needs in emergency events.
Academic Supervisor: Anna Sofie Helen Bolin
Crisis Counseling
This course provides knowledge and training in crisis counseling, with emphasis on psychological crisis assessment techniques and crisis intervention strategies. Various types of crises are reviewed: emergencies, overdose, relapse, violence, suicide, abuse, anxiety, and phobias.
Academic Supervisor: Catherine Wanjiru Gachutha
Crisis & Emergency Management
This course provides practical measures for the development of an alertness, response, and recovery capability during crisis and/or emergency. It considers environmental and infrastructure factors that influence operations, managing resources, working with operational information, operational leadership, planning for response, recovery, and emergency coordination center operations. This course has been designed around two themes: effective emergency management and personal effectiveness.
Academic Supervisor: Anna Sofie Helen Bolin
Disaster Management
This course of disaster management shows how to deal with the human, material, economic or environmental impacts act before, during and after disasters strike, often providing assistance in some of the world’s most hostile environments. Disaster managers seek to save lives and reduce human suffering, protect and restore livelihoods, and reduce the risks faced by communities affected by disaster and the collateral conflicts generated.
Academic Supervisor: Anna Sofie Helen Bolin
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Disaster Management Online via distance learning
Recommended Professional References.
Joining the proper association is the best way to become an updated professional.
Bircham International University graduates may join many professional associations. Membership requirements for each association may vary depending on the degree program, specialization and graduate resume en each occasion. BIU can not guarantee membership in all instances. BIU does not intermediate in these procedures. Bircham International University provides a list of available memberships and professional references from each faculty where some BIU graduates may belong. Contact directly the ones you select. More info...
ABPRRD - Associação Brasileira de Redução de Risco e Desastres
AFPCN - Association Française pour la Prévention des Catastrophes Naturelles
AHEPP - Association of Healthcare Emergency Preparedness Professionals
AIMCSE - Asociación Internacional de Miembros de Cuerpos de Seguridad y Emergencias
AISPC - Asociación Internacional de Seguridad y Protección Civil
BEMA - Black Emergency Managers Association
CATNAT - Association Francophone Internationale des Catastrophes Naturelles
CTIF - International Association of Fire and Rescue Service
DERA - Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Response Association
DMICS - Disaster Management Infrastructure and Control Society
EENA - European Emergency Number Association
GNDR - Global Network of Civil Society Organisations for Disaster Reduction
IAEM - International Association of Emergency Managers
IECAH - Instituto de Estudios sobre Conflictos y Acción Humanitaria
IFRC - International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
NEMA - National Emergency Management Association
USFRA - U.S. First Responders Association
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Admission requirements - Disaster Management
Specialist - Expert Diploma, Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree, Doctor Ph.D. Degree.
For official admission status at Bircham distance education university; you need to send in a filled out, dated, and signed official Application for Admission. You may download this application form from the website or request it by email or mail. Please send this application and enclosed documents to our address. You may also submit this application and attached documents by email in a PDF Format. More info...
Bircham International University issues an admission certificate after receiving your complete application for admission. This document will show the amount of credits transferred and validated from previous education and experience, and the amount of credits required to complete the distance learning degree program's major. Bircham University can not perform this evaluation without the complete application for admission. More info...
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METHOD OF INSTRUCTION: Distance Learning Higher Education
This distance learning education program is completed by a traditional correspondence instruction method. Once you sign up for the course, Bircham International University will send you (to your mailing address) the suggested textbooks. After reading the book, you will be asked to write a 20 to 35 pages report that reflect your understanding of the book. This report is equivalent to the exam and can be submitted by email or mail. Bircham International University will evaluate your written work. If passed, BIU will issue the corresponding diploma. For more instructions about BIU pedagogy, tutoring, and evaluation, please read our distance learning education study guide. More info...
Students enrolling into this distance education program should be aware that:
1. Location: Bircham International University needs a functional geographical location to ship the book and materials for successful completion of this program of study.
2. Communication: Email, courier, phone are key communication instruments with Bircham University that play an important role in the progress and support of this program of study.
3. Capacity: Any impediment, physical or psychological, to read a book and write a report must be communicated to Bircham International University prior to enrollment into this distance learning program.
4. Technology: No specific technology is required to complete this distance education program.
5. Language: Book reading and report writing in other language than English must be requested (and approved by BIU) prior to enrollment in any distance learning program.
6. Discrimination: There is no discrimination with respect to race, color, gender, beliefs or religion.
7. Age: Check the admission requirements for each distance education degree program. More info...
Duration - Disaster Management Online via distance learning
For a program of 21 credits, the estimated time for completion is 21 weeks. For 45 credits, the estimated time for completion will be 45 weeks, and so on. Calculations are approximate. The length of each distance learning degree program is calculated based on an average of 15 hours of learning per week. It also depends on the number of validated credits from previous knowledge and the level of commitment to the studies. More info...
All information related to the distance learning degree programs is in English, although you may, upon request and approval, submit the required assignments in other languages.
Recognition - Disaster Management Online via distance learning
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Faculty of Business & Media via distance learning
Disaster Management Online
Specialist - Expert Diploma, Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree, Doctor Ph.D. Degree.
