An introduction to emergency operations and disaster management - from mitigating and planning for disasters to responding to and recovering from them. Students will learn how their personal and community emergency preparedness can be improved, and about the careers and opportunities available in disaster management.

Exploration of the connections between disasters and societies. Upon completion of the course, students will have a broad understanding of the core theories and frameworks that guide emergency and disaster management, including mitigation, planning, preparedness, response, recovery, and research. Students will conduct hands-on, in-class exercises and learn from leading experts in the field of disaster management.

Exploration of the connections between disasters and societies. Students will have a broad understanding of the core theories and frameworks that guide emergency and disaster management, including mitigation, planning, preparedness, response, recovery, and research. Students will conduct hands-on, in-class exercises and learn from leading experts in disaster management.

Introduction to policies and practices intended to minimize losses from hazards and disasters. There is a growing demand for this knowledge and skillset. The costs to people and societies by hazards continue to challenge managers at all levels - from government and the private sector to NGOs and grassroots movements.

An overview of disasters and disaster management from an international perspective, with a focus on social vulnerability. Content will address a number of issues, including the relationship between disasters and social systems, how disasters are dealt with in different countries, and the interactions between nations during disasters.

This highly interactive course focuses on representations of disasters in media and pop culture. Issues discussed will include disaster news, social media, symbolism, film, music and disasters, and disaster literature. Students will learn how these issues relate to applied topics in disasters, such as warning communication and policy framing.

Apocalypses signal an end of times, and they are seen in the histories, present, and futures of life on Earth. In this course, we examine what it means to survive - and prevent - an apocalypse! Together, we draw from diverse disciplinary perspectives, including human-environment geography, environmental studies, sustainability, and disaster management.

Designed to prepare students for a broad range of methods used in the study of hazards and disasters. Topics include quick response fieldwork training, ethics, introduction to SPSS, and basic GIS. Students will practice forming research questions, strategies for data collection, and conducting analyses.

Faculty-supervised independent or collaborative inquiry into fundamental and applied problems within a discipline that requires students to gather, analyze, synthesize, and interpret data and to present results in writing and other relevant communication formats.

Faculty-supervised independent or collaborative inquiry into fundamental and applied problems within a discipline that requires students to gather, analyze, synthesize, and interpret data and to present results in writing and other relevant communication formats.

Faculty-supervised independent or collaborative inquiry into fundamental and applied problems within a discipline that requires students to gather, analyze, synthesize, and interpret data and to present results in writing and other relevant communication formats.

Faculty-supervised independent or collaborative inquiry into fundamental and applied problems within a discipline that requires students to gather, analyze, synthesize, and interpret data. Students will write or produce a thesis or other professional capstone product, such as a report or portfolio that describes their systematic and in-depth inquiry.