Resilience in the Face of Emergencies
UndergraduateTAS-JNB2622022
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- No ATAR needed, No prior study
- Duration
- 14 weeks
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Resilience in the Face of Emergencies
About this subject
Upon successful completion of this subject, the student should be able to:
- Explain the psychological, physiological, sociological, behavioural and organisational principles that underpin human responses to emergencies.
- Identify factors that support individual resilience to emergencies and develop skills in applying these in preparedness for emergencies via auditing and project design.
- Develop skills in critical reflection including reflection of your own resilience to emergencies and how developing resilience could be extended to other aspects of life.
- Analyse how key concepts (e.g., safety, resilience) interact at individual, group and community levels to support social responsibility and sustainability.
- An introduction to resilience and emergencies
- The Physiology of Resilience
- The Psychology of Resilience
- Resilience across the lifespan
- The Social Context of Resilience: Resilience in communities and cultures
- The Social Context of Resilience: Resilience in communities and cultures (continued)
- Examining Resilient Behaviour
- Resilience in Complex Systems
- Resilience in organisations
- Translating Resilience
- No topic
This subject is designed to respond to the growing challenge that natural and other disasters pose to organisations and individuals. It will provide individuals with insight into how to improve resilience at multiple different levels considering personal, community, organisational and at global levels. The subject itself also embeds the requirement to build skills in auditing and project design, fundamental skills for professionals working in management, logistics and other aligned professions. Indeed, any person working in a professional organisation may be exposed to emergencies, disasters or crises and this subject provides an introduction to principles, knowledge and skills that will be useful in responding to and recovering from these sorts of events. The subject also addresses a ‘wicked problem’ – specifically – we seek greater levels of resilience at times when the challenges to that resilience has also never been greater. By needing to consider and respond to this issue students will be supported to navigate complicated problems with unclear, even impossible solutions.
- Assessing Accounts of Personal Resilience (20%)
- Audit of personal household and community resilience (40%)
- Scaling-Up Resilience (40%)
- Assessments attached to in-semester learning activities (0%)
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Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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