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This course provides the opportunity to study the process of crisis mitigation in organizations. Primary activities include spending time to assess risks, developing and prioritizing response mechanisms, and training staff and stakeholders in threat detection. Students utilize up-to-date strategies to observe and interpret signals of disruption, and build viable, actionable scenarios to defend the organization's people and processes. Crisis mitigation, as part of an organization's crisis management effort, occurs on several levels (i.e., individual, departmental and organization-wide) and across many functions (i.e., IT, HR, finance, and marketing). This course provides students the knowledge and skills to lead crisis management in organizations with authority and engagement, and to decrease vulnerabilities in diverse circumstances.