Course Description
Introduction to policies and practices intended to minimize losses from hazards and disasters in the United States. The costs posed to people and societies by hazards continue to challenge managers at all levels - from government and the private sector to NGOs and grassroots movements.
Athena Title
Disaster Policy Service Learn
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in DMAN 3200
Prerequisite
DMAN 3100
Semester Course Offered
Offered spring
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
- Apply course concepts and skills through a service-learning project that addresses a community-identified need related to hazard risk reduction, disaster management, or sustainability, and critically reflect on the connection between the service experience and course learning objectives.
- Explore and discuss the evolution of hazard risk reduction, disaster management, and sustainability policies.
- Identify the emotional, social, political, geographic, and economic contexts of disaster policy.
- Describe the inter-organizational and intergovernmental challenges inherent in disaster policy and management.
- Discuss how different disciplines engage with and inform disaster management.
- Analyze the relationships between policies intended to address natural disasters and policies intended to address human-caused or terroristic hazards.
- Apply skills learned to effectively communicate about hazard risk reduction, disaster management, and sustainability policies.
Topical Outline
- This course centers on a service-learning project throughout the semester that engages students in addressing a real world, community-identified need while applying skills and knowledge related to the course learning objectives. Students will be involved in planning, implementing, and critically reflecting on the project, connecting their community-based experiences to course content and learning outcomes. Through this work, students will develop and apply new skills and knowledge while contributing to the public good. Students may spend time outside the classroom engaging with community partners and completing project-related activities.
