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Dec 03, 2024
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2023-2024 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Disaster Science and Management (PhD)
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Program Educational Goals:
Ph.D. in Disaster Science & Management Program Educational Goals
- Program Educational Goal #1: Students will be able to explain the development of disaster science as an interdisciplinary field. This includes the principal theoretical approaches from geography, sociology, political science, and anthropology and how they have evolved over time.
- Program Educational Goal #2: Students will articulate how the interconnection of social, natural, and technical systems generates hazards and vulnerabilities along axes of gender, race, class, sexuality, and age, among other human attributes, characteristics, and identifiers.
- Program Educational Goal #3: Students will comprehend theories of individual and organizational responses to hazard and disaster in such areas as warning, evacuation, donations, volunteers, emergence and convergence, and other areas.
- Program Educational Goal #4: Students will critically analyze scientific arguments; dissect the structure and argumentation style of scientific papers; and form research questions, propositions, and hypotheses.
- Program Education Goal #5: Students will demonstrate the ability to conduct independent research and writing by developing, proposing, and implementing a research plan leading to a successful dissertation.
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Requirements for the Degree:
The Doctor of Philosophy in Disaster Science and Management requires 47 credits of graduate-level coursework beyond the Master’s degree including 9 credits of dissertation. In the case where a student has taken the courses below at the MS-level, alternative courses may be approved through the plan of study by the advisor and program director. Students are expected to demonstrate interdisciplinary strength across both social disaster sciences and engineering or natural disaster sciences, as well as advanced methodological skills.
Core Requirements:
15 credits Social Science of Disaster:
Equity, Justice, Disparities, or Vulnerability of Disaster:
One of the following: Public Health Sciences of Disaster:
Science and Engineering of Disaster:
Two-course sequence (6 credits) is chosen in consultation with an advisor.* Note:
*Or another course approved by the Disaster Science and Management program committee or a designated sub-committee. Students may petition the Disaster Science and Management program committee or a designated sub-committee to substitute the engineering area with a natural sciences area, requesting to take a two-course sequence in another non-social science area in place of the engineering sequence.
Qualifier Preparation
3 credits. Substantive Graduate Coursework:
9 credits. Three of following (if foundational knowledge is required, or 9 credits of 600-level or higher coursework related to individual research with advisor approval): Professional Development:
2 credits (Students must register for 1 credit in each of first two semesters). Credits to Total a Minimum of 47
Last Revised 2022-2023 Academic Year
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