The Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Emergency Management offers a major and minor in Emergency Management at the undergraduate level and a master' s and Ph.D. at the graduate level.
  
Emergency Management is both a profession and a field of study addressing the four stages of disaster management: prevention, mitigation, response and recovery. The field covers natural and technological disasters, as well as issues of homeland security. The mission of the major is to create a cadre of graduates with extensive theoretical and applied knowledge in emergency management and disaster research.

Numerous career opportunities are available to those graduating with an emergency management major. Positions are available at all levels of government including city, county, state and federal. A wide variety of local, national and international voluntary organizations routinely need people trained in emergency management, and there is increasing emphasis on emergency management in the private, business sector. There has been, and likely will continue to be, an upward trend in the damage done by natural and technological disasters and the demand is likely to increase for people who can assist in the management of these disasters.

All aspects of sociology can be impacted by disasters, so the emergency major is built on a core of sociology courses:

Emergency Management Major Requirements (38 credits)
Core Sociology Courses
ANTH 111	3 cr
SOC 110	3 cr
SOC 340	3 cr
SOC 341	1 cr
STAT 330*	3 cr
SOC 422	3 cr
Emergency Management Core
EMGT 201	3 cr
SOC 420	3 cr
EMGT 489	1 cr
Disaster Stage Courses
EMGT 411	3 cr
EMGT 413	3 cr
EMGT 431	3 cr
EMGT 483	3 cr
Emergency Management Electives**	6 Cr

The emergency management Minor provides a multidisciplinary background in disaster preparedness, mitigation, response and recovery to natural and human made disasters.