This course addresses the
Homeland Security learning
outcomes marked in bold text.
- Define and identify vulnerabilities, threats, and hazards
- Assess risk
- Plan for emergency action
- Formulate prevention and mitigation strategies
- Organize responses
- Manage recovery options
- Evaluate effectiveness
Course Objectives
By the end of this course, students will:
- Understand the complexity of information dissemination during a multi-agency threat response.
- Know past scenarios in which information dissemination was measured and factors that affected speed and accuracy of that communication.
- Apply communication variables at the education, dissemination, reception, and evaluation stages of a threat communication process.
- Design effective warning and response seeking messages.
- Measure information flow and listener response in post-disaster evaluation.
- Respect the natural impact of repeated warning events on public response.
Community Readiness: Communication during Crisis
Credit Hours: 3
Description: Students who take this class will gain a framework within which to assess communication needs in times of crisis and to develop skills for disseminating and evaluating messages at six stages of crisis communication: 1) education, 2) detection, 3) prediction, 4) dissemination, 5) reception, and 6) evaluation.
Pre-requisites: COM 111 (or similar social science theory course), 297 (or research method equivalent), or approval of course instructor (check with your campus coordinator)
Restrictions/Suggestions: None
| If you are a student at |
Course name and number | Contact |
|---|---|---|
| Chicago State University | Contact your campus coordinator | Dr. Marian Perkins Assistant Professor Office: HWH 325 Phone: (773) 995-2233 |
| Eastern Illinois University | ALCO 3890, Community Readiness: Communication during Crisis | Sue Harvey Registrar gsharvey@eiu.edu (217) 581-3831 |
| Governors State University | Contact your campus coordinator | Veronica Williams Director, Extended University v-williams@govst.edu 708-534-3143 |
| Illinois State University | COM 359, Community Readiness: Communication during Crisis | Dr. Marilyn Morrow Chair, Health Sciences mmorrow@ilstu.edu 309-438-8806 |
| Northern Illinois University | COM 496C, Special Topics in Communication Theory: Communication During Crisis | Linda Traff Assistant Director, Credit ltraff@niu.edu 815-753-8735 Cathy Cradduck Campus Coordinator ccradduc@niu.edu 815-753-5008 |
| Southern Illinois University at Carbondale | ||
| Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville | Contact your campus coordinator | Laura Strom Registrar lstrom@siue.edu 618-650-3330 |
| Western Illinois University | Contact your campus coordinator | Dr. Nancy Parsons Professor, Health Sciences NP-Parsons@wiu.edu 309-298-1746 |