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Nov 13, 2024
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2024-2025 Graduate Catalog
Disaster Science and Management (MS)
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The purpose of graduate education in Disaster Science & Management is to provide students with the intellectual ability to understand, create, integrate, and apply sophisticated discipline- specific interdisciplinary knowledge to the disaster preparedness, response, recovery and mitigation. Recognizing that the discipline itself is inherently interdisciplinary and continues to evolve, students are expected to acquire the vocabulary and critical thinking skills to acquire and evaluate future knowledge.
Toward these ends, the following are the goals for the DISA MS:
- 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 demonstrate understanding of elements of disaster response and recovery, including the establishment of emergency operations centers, housing restoration, theories of coordination and collaboration, and the unique challenges of critical facilities.
- Program Education Goal #5: Students will apply scientific theories and principles to emergency management activities in a practice setting through successful completion of an internship or other practical experience.
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Requirements for the Degree:
Students are required to work with an advisor during the first semester of study to develop an individual plan of study. The non-thesis option requires 30 credits of graduate level coursework. The thesis option requires 33 credits of graduate level courseswork, including the thesis.
Disaster-Oriented Courses:
6 credits. As designated by the Committee, most often to include: Research Methods/Analysis Course:
3 credits. As designated by the Committee, most often to include: Public Policy and Organizational Decision- Making Courses:
6 credits. As designated by the Committee, most often to include: Other Requirements:
6 credits. Disaster-Oriented Courses:
6 credits. As designated by the Committee, most often to include: Research Methods/Analysis Course:
3 credits. As designated by the Committee, most often to include: Public Policy and Organizational Decision- Making Courses:
6 credits. As designated by the Committee, most often to include: Other Requirements:
3 credits. Credits to Total a Minimum of 30
Last Revised 2024-2025 Academic Year
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