# Concentration in Disaster Science and Management

# Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts

# Interdisciplinary Studies, College of Arts and Sciences

### Louisiana State University

[http://www.dsm.lsu.edu](http://www.dsm.lsu.edu/)

# The Disaster Science and Management is an interdisciplinary program which provides student interested in the public, not for profit, and private sectors with:

-   A broad understanding of the nature and impact of disasters on the
    natural, built and human environments;

-   A basis for establishing strategies to effectively plan for
    disasters, mitigate the adverse effects of disasters, respond to
    disasters, and recover from disasters.

### 

### Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts, Concentration in Disaster Science and Management

# The Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts, Concentration in Disaster Science and Management requires 34 hours. 

#### **Required Classes (10 hours)**

> • Hazards and the Environment (DSM 2000) (3 hours)
>
> • Fundamentals of Emergency Management (DSM 2010) (3 hours)
>
> • Hazards Seminar (DSM 3910) (1 hour)
>
> • Introduction to International Politics (POLI 2057) (3 hours)

**Elective Classes (9 hours from the following)**

Disaster Science and Engineering (3 hours from any of the following):

• Issues of Sustainability (ARCH 4041)

• Hurricane Engineering (CE 4445) or Hurricanes and the Built
Environment (for

Non-engineers) (CE 4745)

• Engineering Applications of Remote Sensing (CE 4560)

• Meteorology GEOG 4013 or OCS 4021

> • Climatology (GEOG 4014), Microclimatology (GEOG 4015) or World
> Climates (GEOG 4017)

• Coastal Resources Management (GEOG 4029) or Coastal Zone Management
OCS 4465

Preparedness and Mitigation (3 hours from any of the following):

• Technology in Emergency Management DSM 3200

• Crisis Management DSM 4600

• Environmental Economics ECON 4320

• Environmental Hazards Analysis ENVS 4262

• Regulation and Environmental Hazards ENVS 4264

• Planning Disaster Resilient Communities LA 4204 (formerly 4277)

Social and Cultural Dimensions (3 hours from any of the following):

• Environmental Historical Geography GEOG 4080

• Family Stress Management HUEC 4064

> • International Conflict and Cooperation (POLI 4048)
>
> • International Politics of the Middle East (POLI 4059)
>
> • Comparative Politics of the Middle East (POLI 4061)
>
> • The Religion of Islam (REL 3786 also INTO 3786)
>
> • Fundamentalisms and Religious Nationalism (REL 3092 also INTL 3092))

-   Selected Topics in Sociology: The Sociology of Terrorism (SOCL 4091)

• Crisis Intervention SW 4050

**Technical Electives (15 hours from any of the following):**

[Chemical and Biological Hazards:]{.underline}

• Quantitative Risk Assessment (EMS 4020)

-   Environmental Chemistry (ENVS 4101 see also CHEM 4150)

> • Environmental Toxicology (ENVS 4477)

• Environmental Pollution Transport Processes (OCS 4040)

[Community:]{.underline}

• Selected Topics in Architecture (ARCH 4221)

• Technology in Emergency Management (DSM 3200)

• Introduction to Management (MGT 3200)

• Public Policy Making (POLI 2070)

> [Human Environment:]{.underline}

• Family Stress Management HUEC 4064

> • Comparative Politics of the Middle East (POLI 4061)
>
> • Psychology of Adjustment PSYC 2004
>
> • Psychology of Counseling (PSYC 3083)
>
> • Methods of Sociological Research (SOCL 2211)
>
> • Human Ecology (SOCL 4711)
>
> • Perspectives in Contemporary Social Welfare (SW 3000)

• Crisis Intervention SW 4050

> [Natural Hazards:]{.underline}

-   Applied Ecology (ENVS 4010)

-   Coastal Engineering (CE 4320)

> • Geographical Hydrology (GEOG 4018) or Hydrology (CE 4200)
>
> • The Ocean World (GEOG 4028)
>
> • Environmental Remote Sensing (GEOG 4045)

-   Geographic Information Systems (GEOG 4047)

-   Methods of Spatial Analysis (GEOG 4048)

• Environmental Historical Geography (GEOG 4080)

> • Coastal Morphodynamics OCS 4024
>
> • Physical Oceanography OCS 4170
>
> [Practicum / Research (Limit of 6 hours in this
> category):]{.underline}
>
> • Internship (DSM 3900)
>
> • Special Topics in Disaster Science & Management (DSM 4900)
>
> • Directed Readings in Disaster Science & Management (DSM 4996) (1 - 6
> hrs)

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Other (the following are required as part of the LSU General Education
Requirements):

\*\* Analytical Reasoning: EXST 2201 (4 hours, Prereq.: MATH 1021 or
equivalent)

> \*\* This concentration requires that the LSU General Education
> Requirement for Analytical Reasoning be partially satisfied by
> completing EXST 2201.
>
> Note: The Minor in Disaster Sciences and Management meets the
> Education and Training Requirement for the CEM (Certified Emergency
> Management) and AEM (Associate Emergency Management). See
> <http://www.iaem.com/>

**Louisiana State University allows students to take classes at other
LSU System institutions. DSM students might consider the following
courses at the University of New Orleans. Many of these classes are
offered utilizing Electronic Learning technology and thus avoiding
travel to New Orleans. LSU has restrictions on allowing students to
enroll in other institutions while they are full time students on our
campus. Students interested in enrolling at UNO should obtain approval
their college and departmental advisors. The following courses at UNO
complement offerings at LSU and would make excellent DSM electives.**

• \* UNO - Urban Land Use Planning & Plan Making (MURP 4010G)

• \* UNO - Development and Environmental Management (MURP 4160G)

• \* UNO - Disasters & Geographic Information Systems (MURP 4050)

• \* UNO - Environmental Planning (MURP 4140G)

• \* UNO - City and Regional Planning (MURP 4800G)

• \* UNO - Introduction to Historic Preservation (MURP 4010G)

• \* UNO - Planning for Hazards (URBN 4159G)

• \* UNO - American City Planning (MURP 4200G)

• \* UNO - Sociology of the Environment (SOC 4871)

• \* UNO - Politics of the Developing Areas (POLI 4710)

**Participating Units:**

• Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CE), College of

> Engineering [http://www.ce.lsu.edu](http://www.ce.lsu.edu/)
>
> • School of Architecture (ARCH), College of Art and Design
> [http://www.arch.lsu.edu](http://www.arch.lsu.edu/)

• School of Landscape Architecture (LA), College of Art and Design

> [http://www.la.lsu.edu](http://www.la.lsu.edu/)

• Department of Geography and Anthropology (GEOG), College of Arts and
Sciences

[http://www.ga.lsu.edu](http://www.ga.lsu.edu/)

• Forensic Anthropology / Computer Enhancement Services (FACES) Lab

<http://www.faceslab.lsu.edu/>

> • Department of Environmental Studies (ENVS), School of the Coast and
>
> Environment [http://www.envs.lsu.edu](http://www.envs.lsu.edu/)
>
> • International Studies (INTL)
> <http://appl003.lsu.edu/artsci/intlstudies.nsf/index>
>
> • Department of Oceanography And Coastal Sciences (OCS), School of the
>
> Coast and Environment <http://www.ocean.lsu.edu/>
>
> • Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies (PHIL)
> <http://www.artsci.lsu.edu/phil/index.html>
>
> • Department of Political Science <http://www.artsci.lsu.edu/poli>
>
> • Department of Psychology (PSYC)
> [http://www.psych.lsu.edu](http://www.psych.lsu.edu/)

• School of Social Work (SW) <http://www.socialwork.lsu.edu/>

• Department of Sociology (SOC) <http://www.lsu.edu/sociology>

• Louisiana State University Hurricane Center
[http://www.hurricane.lsu.edu](http://www.hurricane.lsu.edu/)

• CADGIS (Computer Aided Design Geographic Information System

> Laboratory) [http://cadgis.lsu.edu](http://cadgis.lsu.edu/)

**Curriculum Committee**

Students are encouraged to talk with any member of the DSM Curriculum
Committee to discuss their course of study and recommend additional
courses offerings that may be included as electives for the DSM Minor.

> Craig E. Colten (Department of Geography and Anthropology -- Cultural
> and Historical
>
> Geography) <ccolten@lsu.edu>
>
> Mark Gasiorowski (International Studies) <pogasi@lsu.edu>

M.E. "Betsy" Garrison (School of Human Ecology and College of
Agriculture)

> <hcgarr@lsu.edu>

Janice M. Hinson (College of Education) <jhinson@lsu.edu>

C. Barrett Kennedy (School of Architecture) <arkenn@lsu.edu>

Barry D. Keim (Department of Geography and Anthropology) <keim@lsu.edu>

> Marc L. Levitan (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering)
>
> <levitan@hurricane.lsu.edu>

John C. Pine (Disaster Science and Management) <jpine@lsu.edu>

Carol Plummer (School of Social Work) <plummerc@lsu.edu>

> James Richardson (Public Administration) <parich@lsu.edu>
>
> David Sobek (Political Science) <dsobek@lsu.edu>
>
> Elizabeth Mossop (School of Landscape Architecture) <mossoop@lsu.edu>
>
> Nan G. Walker (Department of Oceanography And Coastal Sciences)
>
> <nwalker@antares.esl.lsu.edu>
>
> Rick Weil (Department of Sociology) <fweil@lsu.edu>

**For Further Information Contact:**

John C. Pine

Director, Disaster Science and Management Program

112 East Howe Russell Hall

Louisiana State University

Baton Rouge, LA 70803

\(225\) 578-1075 (225) 578-4420 FAX Email: <jpine@lsu.edu>

**Faculty**

**Sadik C. Artunc** \* Department of Landscape Architecture. Regional
design, design

implementation, recreation and tourism, visual management

**John J. (Jack) Beggs** \* Department of Sociology. Industrial,
race/ethnic/minority relations;

Stratification

**Evan M. Berman \*** Public Administration Institute. Productivity in
Public & Nonprofit

> Organizations, Leadership, Ethics & Values, Human Resource Management,
> Public-Private Relations.

**Craig Colten** \* Department of Geography and Anthropology.
Historical, environmental, North

America, Louisiana

**Andrew Curtis** \* Department of Geography and Anthropology. Computer
cartography, GIS,

spatial patterns in medical geography, locational analysis

**Peter Chen \*** Department of Computer Science. Artificial
intelligence, machine learning,

database systems, logic programming, systems security

**Dydia DeLyser** \* Department of Geography and Anthropology.
Historical, cultural, landscape

and social memory, gender, qualitative methods, social science writing

**Jay D. Edwards** \* Department of Geography and Anthropology.
Sociocultural, vernacular

architecture, Louisiana and the South, Caribbean

**Mark Gasiorowski \*** Department of Political Science. Comparative
politics and international

politics, political economy, Third World politics, specialization in the
Middle East

**M.E. "Betsy" Garrison** \* School of Human Ecology. Family processes
and children's

development; family resource management

**Patrick Hesp** \* Department of Geography and Anthropology. Coastal
geomorphology, Aeolian

geomorphology and dune dynamics, coastal management

**Aixin Hou \*** Department of Environmental Studies. Microbial ecology
of natural systems;

> microbial processes and controlling factors of carbon and nitrogen
> cycling; molecular microbiology; heavy metals toxicology in soils and
> sediments; microbial ecology of extreme environments

**Shih-Ang Hsu** \* Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences.
Coastal and marine

meteorology, air-sea interaction

**Jeanne S. Hurlbert \*** Department of Sociology. Stratification;
networkanalysis; labor markets

**Barrett C. Kennedy**, \* School of Architecture. Heritage
conservation, community revitalization,

Web-based training, computer applications in design and planning

**Barry Keim \*** Department of Geography and Anthropology. Climatic
change and variability,

> synoptic climatology, probable maximum precipitation, extreme climatic
> events, hydroclimatology, human dimensions of global change

**Richard H. Kesel** \* Department of Geography and Anthropology.
Geomorphology, soils,

quaternary, climatic change

**Marc L. Levitan** \* Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering.
Wind engineering,

> Hurricane engineering, structural engineering, wind effects on
> structures, design for hurricanes and natural hazards

**Mary Manhein \*** Department of Geography and Anthropology. Osteology,
forensic

anthropology

**Kent Mathewson \*** Department of Geography and Anthropology.
Cultural, historical, Latin

America, history of geography

**Michael Leitner** \* Department of Geography and Anthropology. Spatial
analysis and GIS,

computer cartography, Europe

**Anthony J. Lewis** \* Department of Geography and Anthropology. Remote
sensing, physical

geography, geoscience applications of radar imagery

**Kam-biu Liu** \* Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences.
Biogeography, palynology,

Quaternary, North America, China, Ecuador

**Brian D. Marx \*** Department of Experimental statistics. Signal
regression, generalized linear

models, ill-conditioned data

**Stephanie Louise Moret** \* Department of Environmental Studies.

**Dimitris Nikitopoulos** \* Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Experimental and numerical

fluid dynamics, two-phase flow and micro-fluidics

**Ivor Van Heerden** \* Department of Civil and Environmental
Engineering. Natural hazards

**Jeanne S. Hurlbert** \* Department of Sociology. Stratification;
network analysis; labor markets

**Nina Siu-Ngan Lam** \* Department of Environmental Studies. Computer
cartography,

GIS, remote sensing, quantitative methods, China

**Steven Namikas** \* Department of Geography and Anthropology. Coastal
geomorphology,

hazards, physical geography

**John C. Pine \*** Department of Geography and Anthropology.
Environmental hazards analysis

and risk assessment, legal issues in emergency management, and emergency
management

**Edward B. Overton \*** Department of Environmental Studies.
Development of field deployable

> analytical instrumentation, development of ultrafast and small GC
> instruments and instrument applications; technology transfer and
> commercialization; evaluation and interpretation of analytical,
> chemical, physical and toxicological data; evaluation of data from
> chemical spills and remediation recommendations.

**Carol Plummer \*** School of Social Work, Child abuse & neglect; child
welfare.

**Kevin Robbins \*** Department of Geography and Anthropology --
Southern Regional Climate

> Center. Agricultural climatology, network-integrated data management
> and delivery systems,

**Robert Rohli** \* Department of Geography and Anthropology.
Climatology, applied

meteorology, water resources, quantitative methods

**Lawrence J. Rouse, Jr.** \* Oceanography and Coastal Sciences --
Remote sensing, physical

oceanography.

**Julie A. Schroeder** \* School of Social Work. Addictions evaluation
research, criminal justice

issues, capital mitigation, disaster services, crisis intervention

**Erno Sajo** \* Department of Physics and Astronomy. Nuclear science,
medical physics

**Bruce G. Sharky** \* School of Landscape Architecture. Professional
practice, site design,

international programs

**Andrew Sluyter \*** Department of Geography and Anthropology.

**David Sobek \*** Department of Political Science. International
conflict.

**Greg Stone** \* Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences.
Coastal morphodynamics and

coastal zone management

**Nan D. Walker** \* Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences.
Satellite oceanography

ocean climatology, physical oceanography

**Lin Bing Wang** \* Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Image techniques in

> pavement and geomaterials, microstructure visualization, pavement
> testing, numerical simulation

**Richard D. White, Jr. \*** Public Administration Institute.

**Chester G. Wilmot** \* Department of Civil and Environmental
Engineering. Transportation

planning, travel demand forecasting, prioritization

**Vincent L. Wilson \*** Department of Environmental Studies. Genetic
toxicology with emphasis

> on mechanisms of mutagenesis and carcinogenesis; molecular genetics of
> environmental exposures and human disease.

**Peter R. Wolensky** \* Department of Mathematics. Control theory

**Brian Wolshon** \* Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Traffic and

transportation engineering, intelligent transportation systems, flow
analysis

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