SOCI345-24S1 (C) Semester One 2024

Critical Disaster Studies

30 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 19 February 2024
End Date: Sunday, 23 June 2024
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 3 March 2024
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 12 May 2024

Description

This course focuses on an introduction to the sociological study of disasters and their impact on society. Disasters are triggered by both natural hazards (e.g., earthquakes, floods, wildfires) and human-induced hazards (e.g., oil spills, terrorism, nuclear accidents, COVID-19 pandemic) and cause widespread community disruption, displacement, economic loss, property/infrastructure damage, death and injury, and psychological suffering. There has been a significant increase in the frequency and magnitude of disasters, and the economic costs, damage to the built and natural environments, and human consequences have been increasingly severe. In this course, much of the focus will be on how social, political and economic conditions influence how people and communities experience, manage, prepare for, recover from and mitigate disasters. Through Critical Disaster Studies (CDS) perspectives, case studies of major disasters in Aotearoa New Zealand and the world (including the COVID-19 pandemic) are used to explore topics such as the impact of sex/gender, class, race/ethnicity, colonization, age and social capital on social vulnerability and resilience to disasters.

Prerequisites

Any 30 points at 200 level from ANTH or SOCI, OR any 60 points at 200 level from the Schedule V of the BA.

Timetable 2024

Students must attend one activity from each section.

Workshop A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Monday 12:00 - 15:00 Jack Erskine 101 (19/2)
Psychology - Sociology 411 (26/2-25/3, 22/4-27/5)
19 Feb - 31 Mar
22 Apr - 2 Jun

Contact Person

Shinya Uekusa

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Attendance and participation 10% Attendance and participation
Discussion facilitator 10% Discussion facilitator
Disaster case study Wiki project 30% Disaster case study Wiki project
Disaster case study Wiki project (peer assessment) 10% Disaster case study Wiki project (peer assessment)
Literature review assignment 40% Literature review assignment

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,687.00

International fee $7,900.00

* 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 Language, Social and Political Sciences .

All SOCI345 Occurrences

  • SOCI345-24S1 (C) Semester One 2024