Business, Management, and Legal Programs

Emergency Management & Homeland Security

A substantial focus on security, protection, and emergency response has emerged - not only from 9/11 and terrorist activities but also from the severity of natural disasters on major population centers.

Learn the core knowledge and skills essential to leaders in today’s world of emergency planning, security, protection, and emergency response.

The Profession Emergency management and homeland security professionals

oversee emergency planning, lead emergency response, and

navigate the demands of disaster and emergency management

efforts to save lives, homes, businesses and neighborhoods.

Security, disaster preparedness, and emergency management are

the fastest growing careers in the federal, state, and local

governments. Likewise, trained emergency management

professionals are in demand at major corporations, universities,

hospitals, and financial institutions.

Prepare for Your Career with UCLA Extension The UCLA Extension Emergency Management & Homeland

Security Certificate prepares candidates for management and

supervisory positions within this high-growth industry.

Our certificate provides the core knowledge and skills essential to

leaders in today’s world of emergency planning, security,

protection, and emergency response.

Learn from the Experts: UCLA Extension instructors are world-class, active industry or government professionals with up-to-the moment experience and knowledge.

Real-World Learning: Opportunities for hands-on experiences with our unique Internship program option.

Flexible, Affordable & Accessible: Our courses are designed to accommodate working adults. These courses are “pay as you go,” with no large deposits upfront, and total costs are well below comparable programs. Plus, an open admission policy (no degrees or prior training required) makes it easy for you to get started.

Emergency Management & Homeland Security Certificate This 6-course professional certificate provides a comprehensive

curriculum covering the core aspects of homeland security and

emergency management theory and practice. All core courses

must be completed within a 5-year period for a total of 22 units.

All the candidates completing the requirements are awarded a

certificate that bears the gold seal of the University of California

and is signed by the dean of UCLA Extension.

The curriculum is intended for:

Government agency employees (federal, state, local)

Private business managers in such areas as human resources, finance, project management, communications, and facilities management

Real estate and private property managers

Military personnel transitioning into civilian careers

Current college students or recent college graduates looking for socially satisfying careers

The Certificate Curriculum REQUIRED COURSES X 408.801 Emergency Preparedness and Homeland Security:

An Overview

X 408.802 Fundamentals of Emergency Preparedness

X 408.803 Human, Legal-Compliance, and Ethical Issues of Emergency Preparedness

X 469.15 Crisis Management and Communications: Safeguarding Image and Viability

X 408.804 Testing Training and Exercises for Business and Government Agencies

X 408.805 Building the Preparedness Plan

or

X 408.806 Internship in Homeland Security and Emergency Management

Take advantage of early-enrollment pricing: save approximately

10% on the fee listed herein if you register at least 1 month prior

to the course start date. Online courses are higher than their

classroom counterparts.

In accordance with applicable Federal laws and University policy, the University of California does not discriminate in any of its policies, procedures, or practices on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, or disability. Inquiries regarding the University's equal oppor-tunity policies may be directed to Office of Registrar, UCLA Extension, Suite 214, 10995 Le Conte Ave., Westwood; Voice/TDD: (310) 825-8845. For information on services for students with disabilities, or questions about accessibility, please call (310) 825-7851 (voice or TTY). Wheelchair accessible.

Course Descriptions All descriptions and fees are subject to change. For course

scheduling visit uclaextension.edu/homeland.

Emergency Preparedness and Homeland Security:

An Overview X 408.801 Management 4 units Gain an understanding of the key elements of emergency preparedness, including Department of Homeland Security issues and resources; elements of effectively managing any major crisis; and how to assist in the development of emergency preparedness strategy in a private company or a government agency. Learn about protection planning for an organization’s employees, customers, and physical assets; insuring compliance with applicable federal, state, and local regulations; and how to look internally at processes and procedures in order to plan and build “network” or external relationships, resources, assistance, and cooperation. The course includes student work with selected training sources and exercises that reinforce key learning objectives.

Fundamentals of Emergency Preparedness X 408.802 Management 4 units This course moves into the real-world work environment and builds your know-how in many specific job functions: under-standing senior management’s commitment to organizational preparedness for disasters, both inside the company and external to the company; interorganizational collaboration and trust in preparedness planning; preparing the inventories of employees, assets, suppliers, and customers; identification of all organization stake-holders; identification of key departments and employees who have critical roles in preparedness and a description of each role; basics of verbal and written plan communication and distribution; what should be considered in developing a preparedness plan; federal, state, and local compliance issues and regulations; and understanding your organization’s “community” and “external networks” in the context of crisis planning, management, and recovery.

Human, Legal-Compliance, and Ethical Issues of

Emergency Preparedness X 408.803 Management 4 units This course provides training and education to effectively deal with the fulcrum point that determines the success or failure of every preparedness plan: the human execution of best practices in a highly stressed environment defined by minute-to-minute decision-making and actions. Learn how to increase plan effectiveness by working in advance to prepare others for the human, legal, and ethical issues that arise in any disaster. (Note: This course satisfies the ethics requirement for this certificate.)

Crisis Management and Communications: Safeguarding

Image and Viability X 469.15 Communication 2 units Emergency response personnel must deal rapidly, correctly, comprehensively, and objectively with a disaster or crisis. This course provides tools to identify potential threats and opportunities in communications alternatives that directly impact agency or business effectiveness, or survival during the crisis management and recovery stages. Instruction includes case studies from the Toyota recall; BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill; the San Bruno, California gas line explosion; and the Fukushima, Japan radiation disaster.

Testing, Training, and Exercises for Business and

Government Agencies X 408.804 Management 4 units Every organization has unique vulnerabilities, assets, exposures, and employees. Learn the tools for applying risk or vulnerability assessment for any organization and incorporating these assessments into thriving emergency plans. Emergency plans must then undergo reality checks in the form of testing, training, and exercises. This course provides you with the sets of tools and cases that lead to knowledge in structuring assessments, testing/validating, training, and exercises applicable inside any specific organization.

Building the Preparedness Plan X 408.805 Management 4 units In this capstone course, students build at least one module of a preparedness plan each week utilizing lessons learned in the previous 5 courses (subject to instructor approval of the organization, agency, or company). Those who are employed may wish to recommend their employer as the subject case. Students may also select a company or agency for which a substantial amount of public data is available, such as publically traded corporations who file detailed annual reports. Prerequisite: Successful completion of the other 5 required courses.

Internship in Homeland Security and Emergency

Management X 408.806 Management 4 units (Early-enrollment pricing does not apply to this course.) The internship—which may be taken as a substitute for Building the Preparedness Plan—provides practical experience and application of the knowledge and skills learned in the previous courses. Students intern for a minimum of 75 hours with sponsoring companies, businesses, and organizations, who have no obligation to provide compensation. Internship projects may include—but are not limited to—assisting in preparedness plan development, client communications support, community preparedness, and research. Prerequisite: Students must be officially enrolled in the Emergency Management & Homeland Security Certificate and have successfully completed the other 5 required courses.

Advisory Board The members of the Advisory Board are distinguished leaders in the field. Their role is to advise and guide the academic content of the certificate and courses.

Norman Abrams, Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus, UCLA Law School

Mark K. Askey, Emergency Management Coordinator, Los Angeles World Airports

Matt Bogaard, CEO, Bogaard Group International. LLC

David P. Eisenman, MD, MSHS, Director UCLA Center for Public Health and Disasters,Professor UCLA Schools of Medicine and Public Health

Carrie Frandsen, ERM Manager, Office of Risk Services, University of California Office of the President

Eric A. Hoffman, Chief Casualty Officer - North America, Zurich Services Corp

John Holmes, MBA, Vice President, Operations, Advanced Environmental Group

Steven Jensen, PhD, Director, Emergency Services Administration, ET242, School of Criminology, Criminal Justice and Emergency Management, California State University, Long Beach

Mark Kroeker, Sr. VP., Justice and Rule of Law, PAE Group

Elsa Lee, CEO and founder, Advantage SCI, LLC

Michael Little, Assistant Chief, Los Angeles Fire Department

Paul Myers, PhD, CEM. Director of Content Management, REMS TA Center

Scott Nelson, President, SRMG

Gabriela Noriega, PhD, Emergency Management Coordinator, City of Los Angeles Emergency Management Department

Frank Quiambao, PhD, Director of Safe Communicites Institute, Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California

Michael Randolph, Sector Security Director, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems

Steve Recca, NPS Center for Homeland Defense and Security

Roger Rieger, President/CEO, InfraGard Los Angeles

Cheryl Santor, CGEIT, CISM, CISA, CISSP, Information Security Manager, Metropolitan Water District of So. CA

Devra Schwartz, Director of Emergency Management and Administration, Loyola Marymount University

Carl Southwell, DPPD, President/Consultant, InsureTech, Inc.

Stan Stahl, PhD, President, Citadel Information Group, President, ISSA-LA

Lauren Stienstra Deputy Coordinator (Training & Exercise), Arlington County

Tim Sullivan, Owner, Cutterman LLC, HLS & Emergency Management Consultant-Domestic/Overseas

Phillip Van Saun, MA, Director, Risk, Security and Resilience, University of California

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General Information Grading All courses to be applied toward this certificate must be taken for a letter grade. Students must complete and pass the curricular requirements of the program and earn an overall 2.5 GPA or better to achieve a certifcate award.

Course Scheduling To determine if a course(s) is being offered, see the quarterly schedule of courses in the UCLA Extension catalog or visit our website: uclaextension.edu.

Internship The internship course provides eligible students an opportunity to earn elective credit toward the certificate program based on an internship position comprised of at least 120 hours of practical application of course material that the student has secured and had approved by UCLA Extension. UCLA Extension does not provide internship placement. Eligible students will have access to a list of firms with internship opportunities. This course is only available to certificate students who have completed a substantial portion (20 units) of the program curriculum with a GPA of 3.0 or better. For more information about the application process contact industrysegementprograms@unex.ucla.edu or call (310) 206-2714.

Contact Us: Online uclaextension.edu/homeland

Phone or Email Mon-Fri, 8am-5pm

Enrique Aragon, Program Manager (310) 794-5470 earagon@uclaextension.edu

Judy Hernandez, Certificate Advisor (310) 206-5117 jhernandez@uclaextension.edu