DRRE403-24S2 (C) Semester Two 2024

Disaster Risk and Resilience Applications

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 15 July 2024
End Date: Sunday, 10 November 2024
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 28 July 2024
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 29 September 2024

Description

The DRRE403 course develops students’ applied research and practical skills, with a focus on disaster risk and resilience. A strong focus of the course is on developing disaster-related communication skills and confidence, during both crisis and non-crisis situations. Students are introduced to contemporary approaches to decision-making under uncertainty, and disaster ethics, and develop transferrable fundamental skills through writing literature reviews and formal research proposals, and by conducting poster and oral presentations. Practical, applied skills are developed through participation in dynamic disaster simulations (including a mock press conference with the UC Journalism programme), and through writing policy briefs for senior leadership (e.g. government ministers).

Course content and assessment is delivered by a range of academic and practitioner experts.  While a core course for the MDRR programme, students from other programmes are encouraged to enrol.

Learning Outcomes

  • Develop applied research skills in support of MDRR dissertation or related project
  • Communicate with both experts and lay persons about hazard, risk, resilience and disasters
  • Have experience in reporting disaster management and resilience situations and solutions
  • Understand the ethical risks associated with DRR research, and measures required to reduce them
    • University Graduate Attributes

      This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:

      Critically competent in a core academic discipline of their award

      Students know and can critically evaluate and, where applicable, apply this knowledge to topics/issues within their majoring subject.

      Employable, innovative and enterprising

      Students will develop key skills and attributes sought by employers that can be used in a range of applications.

      Engaged with the community

      Students will have observed and understood a culture within a community by reflecting on their own performance and experiences within that community.

      Globally aware

      Students will comprehend the influence of global conditions on their discipline and will be competent in engaging with global and multi-cultural contexts.

Prerequisites

Programme Director approval. RP: DRRE401

Restrictions

HAZM403

Recommended Preparation

Timetable 2024

Students must attend one activity from each section.

Lecture A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Tuesday 09:00 - 11:00 Ernest Rutherford 213 Geol Engineering Lab
15 Jul - 25 Aug
Lecture B
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Wednesday 12:00 - 14:00 Ernest Rutherford 213 Geol Engineering Lab
15 Jul - 11 Aug
Tutorial A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Tuesday 12:00 - 14:00 Jack Erskine 441
12 Aug - 18 Aug
Tutorial B
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Tuesday 12:00 - 14:00 Jack Erskine 441
19 Aug - 25 Aug
Workshop A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Wednesday 09:00 - 17:00 Ernest Rutherford 213 Geol Engineering Lab
12 Aug - 25 Aug

Timetable Note

The course comprises 6 weeks of classes, with two 2-hour sessions per week during the first half of Semester 2 (Term 3). A full day disaster press conference scenario is held in collaboration with the School of Journalism on the third Wednesday of Term 3.

Course Coordinators

Sarah Beaven and James Williams

Lecturers

James Williams , Kristie-Lee Thomas , Tom Wilson and John Hopkins

Lecturer: Dr Heather Craig

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Policy Brief 15 Jul 2024 30%
Disaster Scenario Preparation 31 Jul 2024 20%
Disaster Scenario Performance 31 Jul 2024 20%
Oral Presentation 21 Aug 2024 15%
Poster 23 Aug 2024 15%

Textbooks / Resources

No textbooks – selected journal articles will be provided through Learn.

Notes

Prerequisites: NA

Restrictions: NA

Recommended preparation: DRRE401, DRRE402

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,145.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see School of Earth and Environment .

All DRRE403 Occurrences

  • DRRE403-24S2 (C) Semester Two 2024