DISASTERS: CAUSES, CONSEQUENCES, AND CLEANUP in Fall 2023 (FYE1099FB13)

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Course Master: 
FIRST YEAR EXPLORATORY (FYE1099)
Term: 
Fall 2023
Discipline: 
FYE (First-Year Experience)
Credits: 
4 credits
Type: 
CCI
Level: 
Undergraduate
Can be taken twice for credit?: 
Yes
Exam Date: 
Tuesday, December 19, 2023 - 16:00
Pre-requisites: 
None
Co-requisites: 
None

Professor(s)

Notes

Earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunami, oil spills, chemical spills, floods, dam failures, nuclear meltdowns, tornadoes, and avalanches. Disasters can have crippling consequences for people and their communities. The problem of risk mitigation and recovery must include the physical, societal, economic, legal, political, logistic, medical, and financial points of view. In this course you will look at the entire anatomy, from cause to consequence to cleanup, of the greatest disasters of our time.


Learning Outcomes

  1. Information Literacy: Students will comprehend how information is produced and valued in order to discover, evaluate, use, and create information and knowledge effectively and ethically. In FirstBridge, students will demonstrate the conversational nature of scholarship, and recognize their potential role and responsibilities as contributors to that conversation. For each discipline taught in FirstBridge, students will identify reference works, journals, databases and/or major works in history, in order to start effective research in the field (FB LO1)
  2. Life at University: Students will acquire the study skills, time management, and interpersonal skills needed to meet the demands of university-level academic work at a Liberal Arts College individually or as a team. Students will value the multiple meanings of place through experiential learning at AUP and beyond in the Parisian or global context (FB LO2)

Syllabus

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Book List

TitleAuthorPublisherISBN Number
Natural Disasters International Edition
Patrick Leon Abbott
Patrick Leon Abbott
9781265125554
The Devil Never Sleeps
Juliette Kayyem
HACHETTE
9781541700093

Schedule

Start Date: 
Monday, September 4, 2023
End Date: 
Tuesday, December 19, 2023
DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Tuesday
15:20
16:40
PL-4
Friday
15:20
16:40
PL-4
Wednesday
13:45
16:40
PL-1