The Department of 应急管理和灾害科学 understands Emergency Management to be three things: an emerging academic discipline, 新兴职业, 一个分布函数. 

The emerging academic discipline of emergency management is the scientific study of how human beings create, 交互, 并应对危险, 脆弱性, 以及相关事件. The principle method the emergency management discipline uses to underst和se topics is integration and synthesis of scholarship from the diverse disciplines that study these issues at the individual and household, 组织, 社区, 国家, 以及全球层面的准备工作, 响应, 复苏, 和缓解. The product of this synthesis is used by scholars to both educate students and guide their own research.

The academic discipline of emergency management serves the profession of emergency management charged with protecting "communities by coordinating and integrating all activities necessary to build, 维持, 并提高缓解的能力, 为......准备, 回复, 并从威胁或实际的自然灾害中恢复, 恐怖主义行为, 或其他人为灾害”(《乐虎集团》), 2007, p. 以两种方式. 第一个, the discipline provides the field with graduates of degree programs at various levels who have been socialized into this synthesized way of thinking and who approach their work with an understanding of the history of the field, 应急管理所处环境的复杂性, and how evidence might be used to inform practice within context constraints in all of the aforementioned areas. Second, the discipline provides the emerging profession with research in these same areas.

然而,, the emergency management academic discipline also informs the distributed function of emergency management. 这个短语, “分布式功能”, 认识到应急管理专业人员不“做”应急管理. 而不是, the responsibility of "doing" emergency management lies with entities distributed throughout our organizations and jurisdictions at every level. 该学科旨在教育那些将继续在组织中工作的个人, 部门, and agencies throughout society so that they may carry through their careers knowledge about emergency management science and how the work they will do relates. 

The Department of 应急管理和灾害科学 seeks to educate individuals who will go onto work in and/or otherwise serve the profession with its bachelors, 大师, 以及博士学位项目. The Department leverages a variety of minors to engage students who will go on to work in the distributed function.

Our understanding of emergency management and our role as part of the academic discipline has led us to design our curriculum to:

1. Clearly reflect a strong foundation in academic scholarship related to individual and household, 组织, 社区, 以及国家/全球准备, 响应, 复苏, 和缓解
2. Provide consistent opportunities through class activities and projects to apply what students learn, 特别是通过让学生参与我们社区的项目 
3. Foster a rich learning environment wherein people with diverse backgrounds and career goals 交互 and learn from one another
4. 成为一个强有力的补充，有一个独特的身份，辅以 
   • 学生完成一个或多个要求的实习在所有学位级别
   • 学生追求的培训，具体到他们预期的职业道路
   • 学生发展专业网络
   • Faculty professional development mentoring from the start of all degree programs to their completion and beyond

进一步, our understanding of our role within the academic discipline has led our faculty to each be deeply committed to being excellent educators, 寻求实现教育协同的途径, 培训, 和实践, actively engaging with practitioners including through emergency management professional associations and other service activities, 并通过我们自己的研究为知识体系做出贡献.

我们的战略计划 是为了实现这一愿景和使命而开发的.

Involvement in disaster research at 乐虎电子 extends back to 1979 when departmental faculty received National Science Foundation funding to study the impact of a large tornado in Texas. 设立专门的应急管理课程, 然而, began in 2001 when the State Board of Higher Education approved a minor in Emergency Management. 2003年国务院批准了开设学士学位的建议, 应急管理硕士和博士学位. 结果是, 该校成为众多应急管理本科专业之一, 为数不多的拥有硕士学位的人之一, 和 only doctoral degree in the United States that was specifically granted in Emergency Management. 第一个学士学位, 2004年获硕士、博士学位, 2006, 和2009年, 分别.

The degree programs were initially nested in the Department of Sociology and 人类学. 该系更名为社会学系, 人类学, 2007年成立了应急管理部门，并成立了自己的部门, 应急管理部, 2010年，在李博士的领导下. 丹尼尔·J. 克莱诺. 该部门的领导职位由Dr. 杰西卡·詹森2017年. This transition is notable because it marks the first time a tenured emergency management doctoral degree holder became the head of an emergency management department. 该部门于2021年更名为应急管理和灾害科学.

Due to budget cuts at NDSU, admissions to the 大师 and doctoral programs were suspended in 2021. 剩余研究生的“教出”预计将于2024年春季完成.

The program has three tenured/tenure-track faculty dedicated 100% to emergency management. 所有教师均拥有应急管理博士学位.