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Disaster courses

The University of Washington offers a variety of disaster-focused courses for its undergraduate and graduate students. A sampling of those courses is presented in the following tabs.

Disaster courses

AES 480 Critical Migration and Refugee Studies
GEOG 567 Research Seminar: Geography and Economic Development (5, max. 10)
GEOG 580 Medical Geography (3)
JSIS 533 Frameworks for Health Development (5)
JSIS 537 Trends in International Migration (5)
JSIS 541 Religion and Conflict in International Politics (5)
JSIS B 541 Forced Migrations (5)
JSIS 542 Dimensions of Security (5)
JSIS 549 Crisis Negotiation (4)
JSIS 578 C, Special Topics: Tools to End Conflict and Rebuild (5)
JSIS 598 Field Seminar in Peace, Violence, and Security (5)
POL S 524 International Security (5)
POL S 525 International Law and Institutions (5)

BE 230 Living with Disasters: Design For Resilience (5)
IPM 501 Comprehensive Emergency Management (3)
IPM 505 Climate Change and Infrastructure (3)
IPM 512 Public Health Systems
IPM 516/URBDP 596 Community Resilience (3)
URBDP 526 Floodplain Management and Planning for Coastal and River Communities (3)
URBDP 549 Hazard Mitigation Planning (3)

CEE 103 Engineering for Natural And Human-Caused Disasters (1)
CEE 420 Engineering With Developing Communities
CEE 576 Water Resources Planning (3)
CESG 526 Earthquake Engineering I (3)
CESG 527 Earthquake Engineering II (3)
CESG 569 Geological Engineering
CESG 566 Slope Stability and Landslides
CEWA 560 Risk Assessment for Environmental Health Hazards (4)

ATM S 587 Fundamentals of Climate Change (3)
ESS 105 Natural Hazards and Disasters
ESS 202 Earthquakes
ESS 544 Applied Tsunami Hazard Science (4)
SEFS 530 Introduction to Restoration Ecology (3/5)

PUBPOL 531 Development Management and Governance (4)
PUBPOL 533 Economics of International Development (4)
PUBPOL 536 Diagnosing and Reforming Corrupt Systems (4)
PUBPOL 539 Values in International Development (4)
PUBPOL 541 The Role of Nongovernmental Organizations in International Development (4)
PUPPOL 589 Risk Assessment for Environmental Health Hazards (4)
PUBPOL 595 Topics in Environmental Policy and Management: Environmental Disaster Policy (3-5)

LAW E 537 Refugee Law
LAW H 540 Health and Human Rights (3)
LAW A 574 International Law (2 – 4)
LAW B 596 International Protection of Human Rights (2 -4, max 6)

MEDSCI 612 Introduction to Humanitarian Emergencies
MEDSCI 619 Refugee and Immigrant Health

NSG 540 Telehealth Systems and Applications (4)
NSG 553 Foundations of Health Systems and Health Economics (3)
NURS 215 Disaster Management, Risk Reduction, and Health (5)
NURS 576 Assessment and Collaboration with Communities and Systems (3)
NURS 581 Global Health Nursing (2-3)

PHARM 581 Global Health Pharmacy: Medicines, Practice and Policy (2)
PHARM 582 Special Topics in Global Health Pharmacy and Medical Products ([1-3]-, max. 6)
PHARMP 580 Preparation for Global Health Experience in Low-resource Countries (3)

ENV H 506 Disasters and Public Health (3) I&S/NW
ENV H 440 and 545 Water, Wastewater, and Health (4)
ENV H 547 Environmental Change and Infectious Disease (3)
ENV H 577 Risk Assessment for Environmental Health Hazards (4)
EPI 201 Outbreak Investigation and Response
EPI 506 Surveillance Systems and Decision Making in Public Health (2)
EPI 520 Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases (3)
G H 515 War and Health (4)
G H 541 Fundamentals of Implementation Science in Global Health (4)
GH/Lab Med 549 Global Laboratory Systems (1)
G H 555 Nutrition in Developing Countries (3)
G H 556 Global Mental Health (2 – 3)
G H 558 Global Violence and Health (2 – 3)
G H 576 Health In Complex Humanitarian Emergencies

B HLTH 444 Disaster Preparation: Promoting Community Resiliency
BEARTH 320 Impacts of Climate Change
BEARTH 341 Natural Hazards and Human Disasters
CSS 519 Incident Response and Risk Management

T GEOS 107 Geohazards and Natural Disasters
T LAW 422 International Humanitarian Law

UCONJ 546 Emergency Response for Health Professionals