Module Learning Outcomes Assessed:

1. Demonstrate a critical knowledge of disaster preparedness for an organisation, both in the UK as well as abroad, and how national and individual responses to events impact this.
2. Critically analyse the methods used to increase resilience to disasters both personally and as an organisation.
3. Appropriately apply knowledge learnt on the module to design a disaster preparedness workshop, identify good skills to run workshops and reflect on your facilitation ability.
4. Demonstrate a marked improvement to employability skills due to the module.

Task and Mark distribution:

What you are being asked to do:

• Present a portfolio of 5 entries.
• The portfolio should have a professional appearance and include a cover page, a table of contents and a reference list.
• Use good quality resources and cite these sources (and compile a thorough reference list at the end). These references should demonstrate your research on good practice to preparedness throughout all 5 entries, not just for your case study.
• The 5 entries should cover the following:

1. Critique a case study of your choice (a disaster in the UK or abroad), describe the event, analyse the impacts on organisations and how the national government and emergency services/local authority responded to the situation. Critically analyse how the public were impacted and responded. Throughout emphasise the presence or lack of preparedness, and how this could have been improved (500 words – 25%).
2. Present a method to increase preparedness of a specific group of your choice (e.g. school children, business travellers, aid workers) and how you would implement it with the skills you have learnt on the module; (500 words – 25%).
3. Define the steps that need to be taken when developing a workshop to increase preparedness to disasters- use examples of what you have or would do (300 words – 15%).
4. Create a workshop outline to increase preparedness of a chosen group. Include a workshop agenda, an overview of specific tasks, and link these to the academic underpinning of the module, including one relevant theory (500 words – 25%).
5. Demonstrate how the module how made you more employable and how you plan to use the knowledge and skills gained in the future, ideally utilising a table of skills (200 words – 10%).

• You are expected to utilise graphs, tables, figures, and diagrams to good effect. Words within these will not count to the word limit where used sensibly. Overuse of words within these will still count towards the word limit.
• You should incorporate lecture references in your work as minimum; higher marks are awarded where additional reading of good quality sources is evident.

Notes:

1. You are expected to use the Coventry University Harvard Referencing Style. For support and advice on this students can contact Centre for Academic Writing (CAW).
2. Please notify your registry course support team for disability support prior to submission.
3. Any student requiring an extension or deferral should follow the university process as outlined here.
4. The University cannot take responsibility for any coursework lost or corrupted on disks, laptops or personal computer. Students should therefore regularly back-up any work and are advised to save it on the University system.
5. If there are technical or performance issues that prevent students submitting coursework through the online coursework submission system on the day of a coursework deadline, an appropriate extension to the coursework submission deadline will be agreed. This extension will normally be 24 hours or the next working day if the deadline falls on a Friday or over the weekend period. This will be communicated via your Module Leader.
6. Assignments that are more than 10% over the word limit will result in a deduction of 10% of the mark i.e. a mark of 60% will lead to a reduction of 6% to 54%. The word limit includes quotations, but excludes the bibliography, reference list and tables.
7. You are encouraged to check the originality of your work by using the draft Turnitin links on your Moodle Web.
8. Collusion between students (where sections of your work are similar to the work submitted by other students in this or previous module cohorts) is taken extremely seriously and will be reported to the academic conduct panel. This applies to both coursework and exam answers.
9. A marked difference between your writing style, knowledge and skill level demonstrated in class discussion, any test conditions and that demonstrated in a coursework assignment may result in you having to undertake a Viva Voce in order to prove the coursework assignment is entirely your own work.
10. If you make use of the services of a proof reader in your work you must keep your original version and make it available as a demonstration of your written efforts.
11. You must not submit work for assessment that you have already submitted (partially or in full), either for your current course or for another qualification of this university, unless this is specifically provided for in your assignment brief or specific course or module information. Where earlier work by you is citable, ie. it has already been published/submitted, you must reference it clearly. Identical pieces of work submitted concurrently will also be considered to be self-plagiarism.