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Instructor |
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| CRSCAD502 Climate Change, Food & Water Resources | J Clifford | Feb 4 - May 10 | Online | - | - | 3 | 3887 | $1425 | |
Description for CRSCAD502:
This course will examine the causes and consequences of climate change with a special focus on food and water resources. We will analyze proposals to prevent and mitigate global warming with both proactive and responsive policies. As a global society, food and water security is the most important goal we face, yet many people in the developing world lack even basic food security and more than a billion people worldwide lack access to safe drinking water. Food and water shortages are exacerbated and caused by climate change, environmental degradation and natural and human-caused disasters. It is projected that unless drastic efforts to cut greenhouse gas emission are implemented global warming will lead to massive crop failures as early as 2040 and become a worldwide phenomenon by 2080. Because poor nations will be most adversely affected by climate change it is incumbent upon the global society to prepare for and avert disaster.
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Credits: 3 |
| CRSCAD503 Topics in Rebuilding Sustainable Communities After Disasters | A Awotona | Feb 4 - May 10 | Online | - | - | 3 | 3888 | $1425 | |
Description for CRSCAD503:
This course focuses on guided project on a topic selected by the student and approved by the program director. Suggested topics include: what happens after the cameras leave?; social vulnerability and analysis; theoretical and policy debates; the roles of public, private and community-based organizations in rebuilding post-disaster; physical, social, economic, and political dimensions of post-disaster recovery planning and policies; analysis of post-disaster urban reconstruction and recovery planning processes; urban design physical planning; neighborhood/community planning; architectural design for different building types; policy formulation and implantation strategies; landscape design; rebuilding and revitalization of historic sites; housing rehabilitation program; socio-economic development programs (rural, urban district or regional); community needs assessment; evaluation of recovery programs; capacity building; the role of vulnerable populations (for example, the elderly, disabled people, children, women, marginalized people) in the development and implementation of reconstruction plans; information needs and the role of the media during and after disasters; and, community resiliency.
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Credits: 3 |
| CRSCAD521 Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Sustainable Post-Disaster Reconstruction | L Hartling | Feb 4 - May 10 | Online | - | - | 3 | 3889 | $1425 | |
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| CRSCAD524 Survival Skills for the 21st Cent: Develop Personal, Organizational, & Community Resilience Skills. | R Breazeale, R Lumb | Feb 4 - May 10 | Online | - | - | 3 | 4474 | $1425 | |
Description for CRSCAD524:
This course will examine resilience and the power to adapt to stress, adversity, and trauma. Coping with and managing tragedy and crisis is important to the individual, his/her family and friends, employment, and other relationships that are part of our lives.
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Credits: 3 |
| CRSCAD543 The Political Economy of International Migration | P Granberry | Feb 4 - May 10 | Online | - | - | 3 | 4473 | $1425 | |
Description for CRSCAD543:
The aim of the course is to introduce students to the major issues associated with the economic consequences of migration. Students will gain an understanding of the theoretical reasons why people migrate. Many of these reasons are economic, but the resulting dynamic is a lasting relationship between the sending and receiving country. As a result of the development of transnational identities these ties include remittances, political participation, and economic opportunities for both countries.
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Credits: 3 |
| CRSCAD596 Independent Study in Global Post-Disaster | A Awotona | Feb 4 - May 10 | Online | - | - | 1-3 | 13542 | $TBA | |
Description for CRSCAD596:
This guided independent study will allow the student to choose and explore an area of strong interest in global post-disaster studies that is not covered by available courses. Students are particularly encouraged to research new angles of intersection between vulnerable populations and post-disaster conditions. A detailed proposal must be submitted to, and approved by, the instructor and the Director of the Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters. Open to all graduate students.
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Credits: 1-3 |
