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Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Vincent Hurley
Yves-Heng Lim
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Credit points |
Credit points
10
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
50cp at 1000 level or above
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
This unit explores the concept of national resilience. It identifies the role of government in preparing for, managing and recovering from a broad range of crises. The unit begins with an overview of risk reduction strategies and introduces the concept of contingency planning. It then examines the various kinds of crisis response capabilities that government develop, including interagency and state-federal coordination procedures, interoperability of equipment and ADF domestic counterterrorism capabilities. The unit then discusses emergency coordination and management in a variety of contexts, including natural disasters, a large-scale mass transit accident, a nuclear, chemical or biological incident, a viral epidemic, a terrorist attack and critical infrastructure failure. Finally, the unit examines planning for national resilience capacity, the ability to recover from unexpected and debilitating crises. These potent threats to national security are outside the threat-centric concept of homeland security and require a more risk-based approach to planning and preparation. |
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Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved, (a) a penalty for lateness will apply – two (2) marks out of 100 will be deducted per day for assignments submitted after the due date – and (b) no assignment will be accepted more than seven (7) days (incl. weekends) after the original submission deadline. No late submissions will be accepted for timed assessments – e.g. quizzes, online tests.
Name | Weighting | Hurdle | Due |
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Risk Assessment Exercise | 20% | No | 11.55pm Sunday, 16th August. Week 3 |
Project Report | 30% | No | 11.55pm Sunday, 13th September. Week 7 |
Essay | 50% | No | 11.55pm Sunday, 25th October, Week 11 |
Assessment Type 1: Project
Indicative Time on Task 2: 17.6 hours
Due: 11.55pm Sunday, 16th August. Week 3
Weighting: 20%
This assessment task is a written hypothetical exercise that draws upon research to examine the process of risk assessment.
Assessment Type 1: Report
Indicative Time on Task 2: 26.4 hours
Due: 11.55pm Sunday, 13th September. Week 7
Weighting: 30%
Individual project report which addresses two parts:
Part A: Apply selected concepts, models and frameworks introduced during the Unit to assess two key risks faced by a ‘real-world’ business, organisation or government of your choice.
Part B: Explain how your selected business, organisation or government could better deal with your two identified risks.
Assessment Type 1: Essay
Indicative Time on Task 2: 44 hours
Due: 11.55pm Sunday, 25th October, Week 11
Weighting: 50%
Produce a 1500 word essay that answers one of six essay questions posted to iLearn.
1 If you need help with your assignment, please contact:
2 Indicative time-on-task is an estimate of the time required for completion of the assessment task and is subject to individual variation
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update
Any references to on-campus delivery below may no longer be relevant due to COVID-19.
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UNIT REQUIREMENTS AND EXPECTATIONS
REQUIRED READINGS
TECHNOLOGY USED AND REQUIRED
SUBMITTING ASSESSMENT TASKS
LATE SUBMISSION OF ASSESSMENT TASKS
WORD LIMITS FOR ASSESSMENT TASKS
REASSESSMENT OF ASSIGNMENTS DURING THE SEMESTER
STAFF AVAILABILITY
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Introduction to the Unit & National Emergency Management Arrangements |
Vince |
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Legislative Responsibilities of Combat Agencies in Crisis Response |
Vince |
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What is Critical National Infrastructure? What is Risk Assessment? |
Vince |
4 |
Disaster Preparation |
Vince |
5 |
What do Emergency Managers do? |
Layla |
6 |
What is Resilience? What is a High Reliability Organization? |
Layla |
7 |
NZ Christchurch Earthquake. |
Vince |
8 |
Research Week. Lindt Café Siege |
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9 |
Lindt Café Siege. What do EM need to consider? |
Vince |
10 |
Public – Private Sector in EM |
Layla |
11 |
Guest Lecturer Why does Emergency Management & Response Fail? |
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12 |
Why does Emergency Management & Response Fail? |
Layla |
13 |
Social Media & Emergency Management |
Layla |
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