Case Study Critique and Commentary:

Students must identify a real, historic emergency/disaster event that has occurred involving a particular organization, conduct research on the emergency situation/disaster event, and then provide a brief, research-type paper that provides the following minimal components:

1) an overview of the organization involved in the emergency;

2) a discussion of the general nature of the emergency/disaster event, the remarkable cause factors of the event, and the effects of the event (i.e., loss of life, injury, monetary losses, community impact, etc.); and, most importantly,

3 ) a critique of the organization's preparedness and response efforts and what role they played in either mitigating the effects of the event, or if poorly done, making them worse.