University Catalog 2024-2025

Disaster Resilient Policy, Engineering and Design (Certificate)

Certificates are opportunities to add a specialization to a graduate degree in architecture. The areas of specialization offered by the School of Architecture reflect faculty depth in a particular area of inquiry. Interested students should apply to the certificate program before their last semester. The certificates are also available to non-degree seeking students.

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Disaster Resilient Policy, Engineering and Design Program Website

Applicants to the Graduate Certificate in Disaster Resilient Policy, Engineering and Design must complete an application form to be considered for the program provided below. New applications will be reviewed at the department/program level.

Applicant Information

  • Delivery Method: On-Campus
  • Entrance Exam: None
  • Interview Required: None

Application Deadlines

Please visit The Graduate School Application Deadlines page for more information.

Plan Requirements

Core Courses7
Survey of Natural Hazards and Disasters
Disaster Resilient Policy, Engineering and Design
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
Disaster, Crisis and Emergency Management and Policy
The Public Policy Process
Public Policy Analysis
Special Topics in Public Administration and Policy (Collaborative Governance and Public Networks)
Environmental Policy
Seminar in Program Evaluation
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
Advanced Architectural Design (Series) 3,4,5
Advanced Topics Studio in Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning
City Planning and Design - Building Great Communities
The Landscape Imperative
Environmental Social Equity and Design
Greenway Planning and Design
Environment and Culture
Special Topics In Landscape Architecture (Design for Resilient Food Systems)
Special Topics in Architecture
Special Topics In Landscape Architecture
Independent Study
Special Topics in Architecture (Resilient Thinking)
Sustainable Architecture
Vernacular Architecture
Public Interest Design Seminar: Case Studies and Current Issues
American City Planning History
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
Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering
Fluid Mechanics in Natural Environments
Special Topics in Water Resource and Environmental Engineering (Coastal Hydrodynamics)
Special Topics in Water Resource and Environmental Engineering (Coastal Modeling)
Risk and Financial Management in Construction
Energy and Climate
Engineering Aspects Of Coastal Processes
Earthquake Structural Engineering
Hydroclimatology
Advanced Topics In Civil Engineering
Fundamentals of Climate Change Science
Special Topics in Atmospheric Science (Fundamentals of Climate Change Science)
Special Topics in Atmospheric Science (Climate Risk Analysis for Adaptation)
Barriers to Climate Change Literacy
Risk Communication
Climate Change Communication
Seminar In Crisis Communication
6

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