This course fulfills the Emergency Management Capstone senior project demonstrating expertise on a specific issue area and/or problem in emergency management. Students are required to construct and execute a research project analyzing a contemporary operational, economic, or managerial issue within emergency management utilizing an appropriate research or analytical methodology.

Research is something that takes practice and work — it is much more difficult to apply concepts to an original research project than it is to learn their definitions. The course is structured around practicing and developing your research skills so that you can find your own voice, your own argument, and accurately execute your Capstone project.

This is the sixth homework assignment for your Capstone project. For this assignment, you are required to consider what evidence would constitute support for your argument, theory and/or hypotheses. This is a chance to specify how you would evaluate evidence prior to your analysis. Please refer to the attached document below for more detailed instructions about the assignment.