Crisis Management
Join our course to master the skills needed to co-create complex international humanitarian aid infrastructure and response within interprofessional teams. Learn to analyze, enhance, and evaluate evidence-based operations in both natural and manmade crises. Develop your expertise in crisis leadership and management through cutting-edge research and practical application.
Sosiaaliala, Hyvinvointi ja terveysala
Lähiopiskelu
Toteutusaika: 10.02.2025 - 31.05.2025
3 paikkaa jäljellä
Ilmoittautuminen: 18.12.2024 - 02.02.2025
75,00 €
Tutkinto, johon opinto kuuluu Laureassa: Complementary competence, master’s studies in English (CYJ2), Generic studies
Koulutuksen laajuus: 5 opintopistettä
Pääasiallinen opetuskieli: englanti
Koulutuksen taso: YAMK
Sijainti: Laurea Tikkurila
Ilmoittautumistilanne: 2 / 5
Tietoa koulutuksesta
The course covers the following topics:
- response to natural and manmade hazards
- roles and responsibilities of different actors in natural and manmade disasters
- situational awareness in crisis and disaster settings
- lessons learned and continuous improvement in crisis and disaster management
During this course you will learn to
- co-create complex international humanitarian aid infrastructure and response in interprofessional teams
- analyse operations on evidence-base in natural and manmade crises
- enhance implementation of evidence-based operations in natural and manmade crises
- evaluate operations on evidence-base in natural and manmade crises
- research and develop crisis leadership and management
- This course includes learning within lectures, learning assignments, pre-learning, flipped learning, discussions, workshops, being opponent for fellow students and seminar.
- During Spring 2025 all learning activities will take place in Laurea Tikkurila campus.
- There is no hybrid teaching in this course and no online teaching.
- The course is completed partly independently following a schedule for returning assignments by a given deadline.
- A Canvas learning environment is used to support the course.
- The course includes working in pairs or groups.
- You will receive individual feedback for assignments from the teacher, and working life or peer feedback may also be utilised.
The course has teaching at the Tikkurila campus. Please be present at the first meeting.
Pre-assignment deadline for submission in Canvas learning platform by 9.3.2025 This is compulsory in order to join the course, assignments submitted after deadline will not be approved.
Below is the course schedule. Please note that the schedule is subject to change.
- 15.03.2025 09.00 – 12.00
- 11.04.2025 09.00 – 16.30
- 16.05.2025 09.00 – 16.30
The course is worth 5 credits, which corresponds to 135 hours of student work.
- Kapucu, N. Özerdem, A. Sadiq, A-B. (2023) Managing emergencies and crises: Global perspectives. Second edition. Jones & Bartlett Learning. – Books available at Laurea Tikkurila library.
- Coppola, D. P. Introduction to International Disaster Management, Elsevier Science & Technology, 2015. ProQuest Ebook Central.
- Integrating Disaster Science and Management : Global Case Studies in Mitigation and Recovery, edited by Pijush S., et al., Elsevier, 2018. ProQuest Ebook Central.
- Disasters and Crisis management. Journal No 3, 2021. JOURNAL21_03.pdf (reliefweb.int)
- Vasickova, Veronika. (2020). Crisis Management Process – A Literature Review and a Conceptual Integration. Acta Oeconomica Pragensia. 27. 61-77. 10.18267/j.aop.628. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341809953_Crisis_Management_Process_-_A_Literature_Review_and_a_Conceptual_Integration
- Wolbers, Jeroen, Sanneke, Kuipers, and Boin, Arjen. “ A systematic review of 20 years of crisis and disaster research: Trends and progress.” Risks Hazards Crisis Public Policy. 2021; 12: 374– 392. https://doi.org/10.1002/rhc3.12234
The course will be graded 1-5 or fail.
You need to have basic knowledge from crisis preparedness and prevention prior to this course. Therefore, Completion of Crisis preparedness and prevention course prior to this course is a strong recommendation. This is the second course of the Crisis-management series courses, in order to attend the next courses Crisis leadership & communication, you should attend this course first.
To participate in the course, you must have completed a lower university degree from a university of applied sciences, a university, or another equivalent institution.
Familiarize yourself with the cancellation process and the cancellation policy.