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Program Outcomes

Program Contact

Sarah Miller
Associate Professor of Emergency Management
 SMiller@pierce.ctc.edu
 253-912-3693

Lower Division Degrees and Certificates

  1. Explain how the foundational doctrines for the field of emergency management shape modern emergency management program specialties.
  2. Apply emergency management program guidance, processes, and protocols to emergency management initiatives that prepare individuals, communities, and organizations for disaster.
  3. Use modern workplace technology to complete individual and group projects, demonstrating leadership and followership skills.
  4. Apply planning methodologies that incorporate risk analysis, research skills, stakeholder engagement, and professional communications.
  5. Demonstrate professional ethics, including the values of integrity, respect, and cultural awareness.
  6. Describe the technical application of emergency management program functions.
  7. Describe how social determinants affect people’s experiences regarding program equity, diversity, and inclusion in disaster preparedness and the mission areas of response, recovery, mitigation, prevention, and protection. 

  1. Explain how the foundational doctrines for the field of emergency management shape modern emergency management program specialties.
  2. Apply emergency management program guidance, processes, and protocols to emergency management initiatives that prepare individuals, communities, and organizations for disaster.
  3. Apply planning methodologies that incorporate risk analysis, research skills, stakeholder engagement, and professional communications.
  4. Describe the technical application of emergency management program functions.

  1. Demonstrate knowledge of the phases of disaster and the mission areas of emergency management and how they affect a Tribal emergency management program. 
  2. Identify relevant stakeholders in Tribal emergency management in order to accurately understand their needs and communicate with them. 
  3. Explain political and legal processes and how they influence Tribal emergency management policy. 
  4. Demonstrate the ability to organize Tribal assets for effective disaster planning, mitigation, response, and recovery. 
  5. Demonstrate methods to preserve cultural heritage and apply traditional knowledge to the Tribal emergency management environment. 

  1. Implement the policies, laws, and processes required of healthcare emergency management. 
  2. Design a hospital emergency exercise program that follows current standards and best practices.
  3. Collaborate with non-healthcare emergency management programs before, during, and after a disaster.

Upper Division Degrees and Certificates

  1. Evaluate disaster risk in communities and organizations using current scientific, geographic, sociocultural, and technological knowledge, systems, and equipment.
  2. Design programs that use current principles, processes, procedures, decisions, and activities to engage the whole community and increase their capabilities throughout all disaster phases and mission areas.
  3. Analyze organizations using the systems theory of management to define outcomes, identify risk, and create performance measures in emergency management settings.
  4. Critique historical and modern sociocultural constructs that have led to disparities in equity, diversity, and inclusion within the EM profession and delivery of EM programs to the whole community.
  5. Apply effective multi-modal communication, critical thinking, and decision-making skills to emergency management environments.
  6. Analyze the ethical and legal issues that impact the profession and practice of emergency management.
  7. Construct a comprehensive capstone project or internship that synthesizes program knowledge into a “real world” application.

  1. Communicate and interpret hazards and risks.
  2. Apply disaster risk management theory to practice.
  3. Compare and contrast risk management processes and outcomes.

Fundamental Areas of Knowledge and Core Abilities Outcomes

General Education at Pierce College prepares graduates to live and work in a dynamically changing world by emphasizing whole student development through fundamental areas of knowledge and the college five core abilities.