SOCECOL X499.35

The Social Impacts of Disasters

Disasters are not purely natural but mostly social. This course provides an introduction to social research and discourses on how disasters as extreme situations highlight, dramatize, and change social structures and processes. This course examines disasters as related to race, ethnicity, national origin, class, gender, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, mental illness and age. This course offers a framework to prepare future emergency managers for effective disaster management. It integrates current practice with this rapidly rising area of need.
Readings and lectures provide an overview of basic concepts, approaches, issues, and theories in sociology of disasters. Students will participate in class discussions, watch films about disasters, and write a paper about a disaster that they choose.

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Course
Approximate Cost $735
Format Online
Duration 10 Weeks
Total Credits 3

WINTER 2024

1/8/2024 - 3/17/2024
Weeks 10
Delivery Online
Fee $735
Status Closed