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Nov 21, 2024
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ESCI 1080 - Natural Disasters Credits: 3 Hours/Week: Lecture 3Lab None Course Description: This course will investigate the physical processes, origins, as well as the human and economic impacts caused by natural disasters. Students will examine earthquakes, volcanism, severe weather, climate change, wildfires, and floods among other natural catastrophic phenomenon. They will have the opportunity to access information from government agencies and universities involved in the study of these phenomena. MnTC Goals 3 Natural Science, 10 People/Environment
Prerequisite(s): None Corequisite(s): None Recommendation: None
Major Content
- Climate change
- Earthquake geology and seismology
- Extinctions
- Extraterrestrial hazards
- Fires
- Floods
- Introduction energy sources of disasters
- Mass movements
- North American earthquakes
- Plate tectonics and earthquake regions
- Population growth
- Severe weather continued
- Severe weather
- Volcanoes
Learning Outcomes At the end of this course students will be able to:
- relate causes and effects of processes that produce natural disasters
- describe the current state of analysis techniques and prediction capabilities relating to catastrophic events
- investigate the natural, human, and economic impacts of natural disasters through case studies
- access information on natural disasters via the Internet
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