The Essentials of Emergency Management and Homeland Security Graduate Education Programs: Design, Development, and Future

This essay involves a discussion of the essentials of Emergency Management and Homeland Security Graduate education programs. Subjects include the current context of these graduate programs, the critical components of these programs, and emerging trends and issues related to EM-HS programs. These trends include the neccesity of the development of national accreditation standards and promulgating professional bodies to ensure the healthy development of this growing academic discipline.