PSAD 302 UMGC Complex Emergency Challenges Adaptation and Collaboration Discussion – Description
Instructor Guidance:
Content of original post: your instructor will be looking for you to articulate into at least one well stated post response, a demonstration that you understand the weekly material/subject and possess a command of that material/subject. In addition, the expectation is that you display critical thinking skills by bringing into the discussion at least three relevant resources and that your post(s) will promote significant further thought on the topic.
Discussion posts should reference a minimum of three scholarly reference sources. Wikipedia and similar sites are not scholarly reference sources.
All of your posted content should demonstrate that you understand and possess a command of the course material.
Remember, according to the discussion rubric, the use of two resources in an original post will receive an average grade. Use of additional resources is necessary to achieve a higher grade.
If you use ideas from others, you may summarize them, paraphrase them, or quote them. Quotes require quotation marks and all three require appropriate attribution.
Adherence to Discussion Forum Standards and Guidelines: your instructor will be looking for you to follow all required standards (i.e. APA format; grammar; citations; references, other standards as required).
Discussion Post:
Based on the report from the discipline most aligned with your discipline or the discipline you hope to enter, discuss your personal experience related to at least one of the critical issues addressed. If appropriate, offer any challenges to the author’s position and/or, offer context for your classmates who are not in the same discipline.
Then, based on the other report in this week’s readings and from a perspective different from that of the author(s), address a least one critical issue in the report and discuss it related to your discipline or the discipline you hope to enter.
For example, you may want to discuss how the same critical issue is important in your discipline and why. You may also want to discuss how your chosen discipline plays a role in working with the primary discipline related to the critical issue. Or, you may want to discuss how dealing with the critical issue by the other discipline effects important relationships between their discipline and yours.
Try to be as imaginative as possible by looking at issues for which the interrelatedness is not as obvious.
Readings:
PDF – 21st Century Fire and Rescue Service Leaders at the Core of Better Communities
This is a thirty-page report that was produced by the Center for Public safety Excellence (CPSE) and the International City/County Management Association (ICMA) in 2019. The report reflects the insight from experts from both organizations and is an effort to chart a course for the modern fire service. The technical working group considered input from labor, fire department management, city/county management, and other stakeholders when they developed the report.
Chief Randy Bruegman tackles critical issues facing the future of the fire service
This is a twenty-six-minute podcast from September 2020 discussing the paper above and is not required listening. (Transcript for Podcast)
PDF – Guide to Critical Issues in Policing
This nineteen-page report by the Police Executive Research Forum from 2021 outlines six issues critical to modern policing. The report discusses use of force, managing mass demonstrations, handling encounters with persons with mental illness/behavioral health challenges, civil rights investigations of police agencies, establishing legitimacy in the community, and union relations. Students from other disciplines should be able to easily identify with some if not most of these issues. Fire and EMS trade journals have several recent articles concerning their discipline’s role in many of these issues.
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