Learning Outcomes: (At the end of this course, students
will be able to…)
- Define terms, facts, and descriptions relevant to natural disasters and hazards.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the randomness of natural events and difficulty of predicting catastrophe.
- Demonstrate an understanding of hazard locations, risk assessment and mitigation.
- Explain the important role public education plays in elevating peoples’ awareness of natural processes and how to learn to live with and avoid hazards.
- Encourage exploration of environmental local, state, and federal policies.
- Demonstrate knowledge of ways to be prepared for natural disasters
- Summarize the concepts of the scientific method and how it is applied in understanding natural processes.
- Discuss societal behaviors as well as individual and government responsibilities and the role that insurance plays in catastrophic loss.
- Demonstrate a fundamental understanding of plate tectonic theory.
- Contrast and compare the different types of plate boundaries.
- Demonstrate an understanding of earthquake processes including earthquake waves and behavior, and causes of earthquakes and fault types.
- Explain how earthquakes are located and scaled.
- Identify the types of ground motion. Describe the effects earthquakes may have on structures and slopes earthquake effects on buildings.
- Describe how tsunami are generated and their impact.
- Explain the difficulties of earthquake prediction.
- Explain what to do before, during and after an earthquake.
- Summarize types of volcanic materials, hazards, and eruptive mechanisms.
- List the types of volcanoes and their behavior and risks.
- Demonstrate a knowledge of eruption warnings and precursors.
- Describe fundamental stream dynamics and stream types.
- Demonstrate an ability to define what a flood is, how they are measured, types and predictions.
- Describe the fundamental principles of mass wasting
- Explain how to assess risk and mitigate mass wasting impacts
- Contrast and compare global warming and cooling models.
- Identify climate cycles such as El Nino.
- Understand the basics of weather and climate.
- Identify the types of cyclones.
- Demonstrate an understanding of how cyclones are scaled. Define the Saffir-Simpson and Fujita scales.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the difficulty in hurricane and tornado prediction
- Describe different types of impacts, and the effects of a large meteorite impact.
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