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CSS491: Emergency, Riot and Disaster Control Management

CSS491: Emergency, Riot and Disaster Control Management is a 3- credit unit course. It is a compulsory course for all postgraduate students in the field of Criminology and Security Studies of the University. The course is also recommended for any other student(s) particularly those in the school of Arts and Social Sciences, who may have interest in the study and survey of security theory and practice.

What Will You Learn?

This course deals with the analysis and assessment of various disasters, disasters prone areas, and their management and prevention where possible will be expected to identify these disasters and develop diagnostic frameworks through which they can proffer solutions towards hazard mitigation and effective disaster management.

Core
Teacher Of Course
Information Of Course
Duration Time
1 Semester
Level
400 Level
Includes

At the end of the course, students should be able to:

  • Assess and identify disasters prone areas in the country

a. Assessment method

b. The five-step risk process

c. Matching the response to the threat

  • Measuring Risk
  • Implement disaster avoidance strategies

a. Avoiding disasters by taking effective

b. preventive actions

c. Creating contingency plans for unavoidable threats

  • Organize team structures for use in an emergency
  • Create a recovery plan from the response to a disaster
  • Identify appropriate strategies to recover the infrastructures/
  • Respond to recovery scenarios
  • Organize and manage recovery teams
  • Test and maintain an effective recovery plan in a rapidly changing technology environment