Society and Disaster

Catalog description

This course will strengthen students' command of theories, methods, and empirical findings in the social scientific study of extreme events including natural disasters, disease outbreaks, and technological accidents. Students will explore the human hand in, and experience of disasters - phenomena that influenced by the ways people imagine, build, organize, and value their communities. This critical perspective will enable public health majors and other students to confront the present trend of more frequent and more severe disasters, as well as the factors influencing disparities in people's abilities to withstand and to recover from mass tragedy. TSI Restriction(s): Reading, Writing, and Math