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NATSC 402 - Natural Disasters


Delivery: Lecture
This course deals with the natural hazards that pose threats to human life and property, and on the natural disasters and catastrophes that occur when those threats are realized in the form of destructive events.  Topics are presented in an order that is somewhat predicated on timeliness (for example, hurricanes are covered first, while we are in the peak time of “hurricane season”) and also on a logical flow of causes and consequences.  As part of the science curriculum, this course is also focused on the foundation of science - the Scientific Method and the Process of Science - and how science is applied in the study and analysis of natural disasters, toward the end of preparing for and mitigating the effects of inevitable disastrous events.

 

3 credits
Fall and Spring



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