University Catalog 2023-2024

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Disaster Resilient Policy, Engineering and Design (Certificate)

Plan Requirements

Core Courses7
LAR 552
Survey of Natural Hazards and Disasters
LAR 554
Disaster Resilient Policy, Engineering and Design
LAR 607
Natural Hazards, Disasters and Climate Change Adaptation Lecture Series
Track Courses6
Select one of the focus tracks listed below
Total Hours13

Policy Track

Select a minimum of two of the following courses in conjunction with the academic committee: 16
PA 553
Disaster, Crisis and Emergency Management and Policy
PA 507
The Public Policy Process
PA 511
Public Policy Analysis
PA 798
Special Topics in Public Administration and Policy (Collaborative Governance and Public Networks)
PA 550
Environmental Policy
PA 546
Seminar in Program Evaluation
PA 514
Management Systems
1

Other PA courses as identified (including special topics, field study-see, for instance, firechasers program) subject to approval of instructor and track coordinator

Design Track

Select a minimum of two of the following courses in conjunction with the academic committee: 26
ARC 503
Advanced Architectural Design (Series) 3,4,5
or LAR 507
 Advanced Topics Studio in Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning
LAR 545
City Planning and Design - Building Great Communities
LAR 546
The Landscape Imperative
LAR 535
Environmental Social Equity and Design
LAR 547
Greenway Planning and Design
LAR 520
Environment and Culture
LAR 582
Special Topics In Landscape Architecture (Design for Resilient Food Systems)
or ARC 590
 Special Topics in Architecture
LAR 582
Special Topics In Landscape Architecture
LAR 630
Independent Study
ARC 590
Special Topics in Architecture (Resilient Thinking)
ARC 520
Sustainable Architecture
ARC 548
Vernacular Architecture
ARC 563
Public Interest Design Seminar: Case Studies and Current Issues
ARC 544
American City Planning History
ARC 590
Special Topics in Architecture
2

Other LAR and/or ARC courses as identified – subject to approval of instructor and track coordinator.

3

Subject to topical area and approval by the Certificate Coordinator.

4

Non-ARC/LAR students are subject to approval of studio instructors and these student may seek to take ARC 503/LAR 507 as a 3-credit hour course (focused on specific class sub-tasks that do not require design studio training/education).

5

ARC students are subject to a lottery to get into studios.

Construction, Civil and Environmental Engineering Track

Select a minimum of two of the following courses in conjunction with the academic committee: 66
CE 746
Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering
CE 581
Fluid Mechanics in Natural Environments
CE 596
Special Topics in Water Resource and Environmental Engineering (Coastal Hydrodynamics)
CE 596
Special Topics in Water Resource and Environmental Engineering (Coastal Modeling)
CE 567
Risk and Financial Management in Construction
CE 578
Energy and Climate
CE 583
Engineering Aspects Of Coastal Processes
CE 725
Earthquake Structural Engineering
CE 786
Hydroclimatology
CE 790
Advanced Topics In Civil Engineering
MEA 517
Fundamentals of Climate Change Science
MEA 593
Special Topics in Atmospheric Science (Fundamentals of Climate Change Science)
MEA 593
Special Topics in Atmospheric Science (Climate Risk Analysis for Adaptation)
MEA 519
Barriers to Climate Change Literacy
COM 538
Risk Communication
COM 579
Climate Change Communication
COM 566
Seminar In Crisis Communication
6

Other CE courses as identified – subject to approval of instructor and track coordinator.