Teaching about Hazards: Courses

These course descriptions have been submitted by faculty from a range of disciplines.


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Coastal Processes, Hazards and Society
Tim Bralower, Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus; diane maygarden, University of New Orleans; Sean Cornell, Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania
This blended and online course will provide students with a global perspective of coastal landscapes, the processes responsible for their formation, diversity, and change over time, as well as societal responses to ...

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Global Climate Change
Sarah Fortner, Carleton College
× Consequences of global climate change already include: increased drought, heat waves, flood intensity, glacial retreat, and sea level rise. Solutions are needed to reduce human impact on our climate system ...

Environmental Science and Policy
Mary Anne Carletta, Georgetown College
This is an upper level college course for environmental science and sometimes political science majors or others who are interested. It consists largely of class discussions of material from an environmental policy ...

Vulnerable Populations & Disasters
Marc Settembrino, Southeastern Louisiana University
This course is designed to critically examine the relationship between social inequality and disaster vulnerability. Special emphasis will be placed on social theories of disaster vulnerability, research examining ...

Course profile: Quantitative Natural Hazards
Arlo Weil, Bryn Mawr
A course profile page for "Quantitative Natural Hazards" at Bryn Mawr College details an introductory, math-intensive general science elective focused on geologic hazards—earthquakes, volcanoes, floods, and hurricanes—emphasizing quantitative analysis, data interpretation, real-world problem-solving, and human impacts, with structured assessment via problem sets, exams, and a disaster journal, serving undergraduate students fulfilling quantitative requirements. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

Introduction to Volcanology
Erouscilla Joseph, University of the West Indies
The course will introduce students to Plate tectonics and volcanoes; including the processes that takes place at active volcanoes (eruptive mechanisms, effusive and explosive volcanism); methods and instrumentation ...

Social Ecology
Pamela McMullin-Messier, Central Washington University
This is a sociology course but also serves as an interdisciplinary elective for environmental and policy studies; the course revolves around discussion and application of the concepts and theories of environmental ...

Economics of Hazards & Disasters
Lorraine Motola, Metropolitan College of New York
This course, Economics of Hazards and Disasters, provides a comprehensive overview of the economic aspects of hazards and disasters through a review of the concepts, analytical tools and policies to aid emergency ...

Living with Volcanoes - Mt. Rainier and Mt. Saint Helens, WA
Jennifer Thomson, Eastern Washington University
A pedagogical field course page detailing an interdisciplinary geology-biology curriculum centered on Mt. Rainier and Mt. St. Helens, covering volcanic processes, ecological recovery, course logistics, assessment methods, and educational resources for undergraduate, graduate, and K–12 audiences. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

On the Trail of the Yellowstone Hot Spot - Snake River Plain, Craters of the Moon, and Yellowstone
This educational webpage presents an interdisciplinary field course on the Yellowstone Hot Spot, covering the Snake River Plain, Craters of the Moon, and Yellowstone National Park, designed for geology, biology, and environmental science students and educators, emphasizing field-based learning, integration of geologic and biologic processes, volcanic landscapes, extremophiles, and practical trip logistics, assessment methods, and downloadable teaching materials. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

Climatology
Cindy Shellito, University of Northern Colorado
This course is designed to help students gain a scientific understanding of the physical aspects of Earth's climate system and the factors that influence climate change. We explore the global balance of energy ...

Freshman Seminar: Geology and Human Health
Jeffrey Catalano, Washington University in St. Louis
This course explores the connections between human health and geological processes. It is taught through a series of case studies that first focus on the geological origin of a process that affects human health, ...

Geologic Disasters & the Environment
Kaatje van der Hoeven Kraft, Whatcom Community College
This class teaches the essentials of geologic disasters and environmental geology to non-major students. Students examine human interactions with Earth and vice versa. This course is taught through a case study ...

Earthquake Investigation Workshop: Shake, Rattle, & Rock
Daniel Murray, University of Rhode Island
This 2.5 day workshop investigates provides MS & HS teachers with information about plate tectonics and earthquakes. It is geared to standards and Grade Span Expectations in Rhode Island. Over the next five ...

Natural Hazards & Environment (ISP-203 B - 002)
Brian Hampton, New Mexico State University-Main Campus; , Michigan State University
This is a geology majors/non-majors course that addresses the science and public policy issues related to tectonic and atmospheric hazards.

Introduction to Emergency Management
Mark Kerrin, Edward Waters College
This course presents the theories, principles, and approaches to emergency management. An analysis of past disasters will be presented along with their impacts on policy formation leading up to the current FEMA ...

Course profile: Quantitative Natural Hazards
Arlo Weil, Bryn Mawr
Course profile page for "Quantitative Natural Hazards" at Bryn Mawr College, detailing an introductory-level, Q-requirement science course focused on geologic hazards, quantitative skill development, student learning goals, assessment methods, and curriculum resources. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

Extreme Weather
Perry Samson, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
This course provides an introduction to the physics of extreme weather events. We examine solar eruptions, ice ages, climate change, monsoons, El Niño, hurricanes, floods, droughts, heat waves, thunderstorms, ...

Earthquakes and Volcanoes
Ignacio Pujana, The University of Texas at Dallas
This is an interdisciplinary science course offered in an online format. A flexible approach based on programmed self-instruction, with frequent tests to monitor progress, substitutes for the usual lecture with ...

Natural Hazards and Disasters
Meredith Denton-Hedrick, Austin Community College
This course provides a survey of earth sciences through an examination of natural hazards. Consumers, voters, and decision-makers need to understand the impact of these hazards, how the hazards are changing due to ...


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