University of Richmond

Business Continuity Minor

Required
18 semester hours. Select only 1 course from ESM 307U, ESM 313U and ESM 316U.

  • ESM 305U: Disasters, Characteristics and Physical Impacts (3 sem. hrs.) Offered Summer 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2010
    Overview of characteristics of disasters, their impact on population, infrastructure, and economy, and disaster management cycle.
  • ESM 307U: Managing Emergency Operations (3 sem. hrs.) Offered Summer 2007, Summer 2008, Spring 2010
    Covers management of complex emergency operations in field using incident management systems and role of emergency operations centers in directing disaster response.
  • ESM 313U: Disaster Exercises (3 sem. hrs.) Offered Spring 2009, Spring 2010
    Examines the role of disaster exercises and tests in an emergency management or business continuity program and addresses how to design and conduct exercises for training and for evaluation. Identifies strategies for use of lessons learned to improve operations and teaches principles of management of an exercise program.
  • ESM 316U: Information Technology Disaster Recovery (3 sem. hrs.) Offered Summer 2008
    Information technology applications now routinely handle hundreds of millions of dollars in commerce in large corporations. Addresses the issues of information technology risk and examines the technical alternatives to protect critical data and information services from loss or disruption in disasters.
  • ESM 310U: Business Continuity Planning (3 sem. hrs.) Offered Summer 2007, Fall 2007, Fall 2009, Spring 2010
    Explores the role, organization, and management of business continuity planning in surviving the impact of disaster, continuing to operate to serve clients or customers, and rapidly recovering to full operations.
  • ESM 315U: Business Community Program Management (3 sem. hrs.) Offered Fall 2008, Spring 2010
    Addresses management of business continuity programs and activities in both the corporate and public sector environments. Discusses components of a business continuity program and their relationships to the overall enterprise. Identifies the role of business continuity as a key component of strategy, and highlights areas of concern in ensuring a business continuity program supports the entire organization in its response to disaster.
  • ESM 317U: Risk, Hazard and Impact Analysis (3 sem. hrs.) Offered Summer 2009
    Identification of the impacts of disaster events is critical to understanding how an organization can survive the impact and continue to operate. Examines the business impact analysis process, how to manage it, and how to use the analysis as the first step in continuity plan development.
  • PBRL 331U: Introduction to Public Relations (3 sem. hrs.)
    History, principles, and practice of public relations in business, social welfare, governmental agencies, and education; responsibilities and demands on public relations practitioner; how practitioner relates to employer, media, and public.