Global Post-Disaster Studies: Planning, Development and Reconstruction with Vulnerable Populations
resilience and the power to adapt to stress, adversity and trauma
This online course explore effective, long-term solutions for:
- Bad governance and poverty
- Contamination of soils, air and water HIV/AIDS and other disease pandemics
- Wars and regional conflicts
- Severe weather-related events such as earthquakes, mudslides and tsunamis
- Large-scale attacks on civilian populations
- Technological catastrophes
The increase in disasters around the world demands global access to informed, skilled managers of sustainable recovery. Concerned world citizens will find this graduate-level, online certificate to be the key that allows them to specialize in reconstruction, from policy and planning to operations on the ground. Unique among advanced post-disaster education programs, this certificate emphasizes the needs of vulnerable populations, including children, women, the elderly, people with disabilities, and the poor.
Visionary. Sustainable. Comprehensive.
Presenting the complexities of disaster mitigation and recovery with a multi-disciplinary approach, faculty who have conducted intensive research and published widely on topics relevant to post-disaster reconstruction will present in their areas of expertise. Instructors from other institutions will also contribute to the program.
- Complex nature of international disasters
- Social vulnerability in different contexts and through the disaster cycle
- Resilience and the power to adapt to stress, adversity and trauma
- Post-disaster resettlement and rehabilitation
- Post-disaster reconstruction
- Human rights in the context of post-disaster
- Food and water shortages, which are exacerbated by climate change, environmental degradation, and natural and human-caused disaster
- Forced migration and develop an understanding of unauthorized migration in relationship to globalization
To be accepted in the program, applicants must:
- Submit a completed Graduate Application form.
- Have earned a Bachelor’s degree or its equivalent.
- Submit a resume.
- Submit official transcripts from every institution previously attended.
- Submit a TOEFL (or IELTS) score that meets the requirements of the University of Massachusetts Boston for graduate study.
- Have access to computer technology for online study.
- Submit two letters of recommendation and a statement of interests/intent.
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Adenrele Awotona - Program Director and Academic Advisor. Tel 617.287.7112 - Fax 617.287.5544. Email: crscad@umb.edu