**DISASTER SCIENCE & MANAGEMENT**

**The Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts**

**Concentration in Disaster Science & Management**

**College of Arts & Sciences**

**Louisiana State University**

The Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts enables students in the College of
Arts & Sciences to earn a bachelor of arts degree with a concentration
in areas in which no formal major is offered. The program is designed to
give students the opportunity to become broadly educated in the liberal
arts while satisfying the requirements for specialized areas of
concentration. Currently, concentrations are offered in African and
African-American studies, art history, studio art, and disaster science
and management.

Damage and economic impacts from natural and man-made disasters have
been growing at exponential rates over the past few decades. Our global
interconnectedness have evolved to the point where a catastrophic
disaster as Hurricane Katrina demonstrates have far reaching impacts on
a regional, national, and even global scale. Nowhere are these threats
more daunting than in Louisiana, the Gulf Coast Region and the Caribbean
Basin. Coastal areas, towns, and urban centers alike are struggling to
balance the threat of natural and man-made disasters with social and
economic development through informed planning, protection, mitigation,
and recovery strategies.

# 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.

# Disaster Science and Management Concentration (34 hrs,) 

**Required** (10 hours)

DSM 2000 -- Introduction to Environmental Hazards

DSM 2010 -- Fundamentals of Emergency Management

DSM 3910 -- Disaster Science & Management Seminar

POLI 2057 - Introduction to International Politics

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

ARCH 4041 Issues in Sustainability, ARCH 4062 Urban Design and Planning,
CE 4445 Natural Hazards and the Built Environment or CE 4745 Natural
Hazards and the Built Environment, or CD 4560 Engineering Application so
f Remote Sensing

GEOG 4013 Meteorology or OCS 4021Weather Analysis and Satellite
Meteorology GEOG 4014 Climatology, GEOG 4029 Coastal Resources and
Management or OCS 4465 Seminar on Coastal Zone Management

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

DSM 3200 Technology and Emergency Management

DSM 4600 Crisis Management

ECON 4320 Environmental Economics

ENVS 4262, 4264 Environmental Hazards Analysis or LA 4277 Planning
Disaster resilient Communities

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

> GEOG 4080 Environmental Historical Geography, HUEC 4064 Family Stress
> Management, POLI 4048 International Conflict and Cooperation, POLI
> 4059 International Politics of the Middle East, REL 3092 (INTL 3092)
> Fundamentalisms and Religious Nationalism
>
> Community Design Studies (ARCH 7070)
>
> Sustainable Design Theory and Practices (ARCH 4221)
>
> SOCL 4091 Topics in Sociology or SW 4500 Crisis Intervention

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

> [Chemical and Biological Hazards]{.underline}: EMS 4020 Quantitative
> Risk Assessment, ENVS 4101 (CHEM 4150) Environmental Chemistry, ENVS
> 4477 Environmental Toxicology or OCS 4040 Environmental Pollution
> Transport Processes
>
> [Community]{.underline}: ARCH 4221 Selected Topics in Architecture,
> DSM 3200 Technology & Emergency Management, MGT 3200 Introduction to
> Management, 4465 or POLI 2070 Public Policy Making
>
> [Human Environment]{.underline}: HUEC 4064 Family Stress Management,
> POLI 4061 Comparative Politics of the Middle East, PSYC 2004
> Psychology of Adjustment, PSYC 3083 Psychological Counseling, SOCL
> 2211 Methods of Sociological Research, SOCL 4711 Human Ecology, SW
> 3000 Perspectives in Contemporary Social Work or 4500 Crisis
> Intervention
>
> [Natural Hazards]{.underline}: ENVS 4010 Applied Ecology, GEOG 4018
> Geographical Hydrology or CE 4200 Hydrology, GEOG 4028 the Ocean
> World, 4045 Environmental Remote Sensing, or 4047 Geographic
> Information systems, GEOG 4080 Environmental Historical Geography, OCS
> 4024 Coastal Morphodynamics or OSC 4170 Physical Oceanography
>
> [Practicum / Research]{.underline} (Limit of 6 hours in this
> category): DSM 4900 or DSM 4996 (1 - 6 hrs)

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

\*\* This concentration requires that the LSU General Education
Requirement for Analytical Reasoning be partially satisfied by
completing EXST 2201. EXST 2201 (4 hours, Prereq.: MATH 1021 or
equivalent)

**Courses requiring pre-requisites**

CE 4200 CE 2200 or consent of instructor CE 4445 CE 3415 and credit or
registration in CE 3200 or equivalent

CE 4745 Junior standing

CE 4560 Consent of instructor

DSM 3900 DSM 2000 and junior standing

DSM 3910 DSM 2000 and junior standing

DSM 4900 SOCL 2211 or equivalent and 12 hous of course work including
DSM 2000 and core courses in disaster science management concentration
or minor; consent of instructor

DSM 4996 Consent of the instructor; for student with at least a junior
standing and 12 hrs of course work

ECON 4320 ECON 2000 and 2010; or 2030

ENVS 2277 6 hrs of chemistry, 6 hrs of life sciences and permission of
instructor

ENVS 4101 CHEM 2001 and 2261 or 2461 or 2060

EMS 4020 6 hrs of chemistry and 6 hrs of biological sciences, MATH 1431
or equivalent

EXST 2201 MATH 1021 or equivalent

SW 3000 SW 2000 or equivalent

FIN 3400 BLAW 3201

FIN 3442 FIN 3440

GEOG 4018 MATH 1021 or equivalent

GEOG 4045 Consent of instructor

GEOG 4047 CDC 1250 or 1253 or equivalent

HUEC 4064 HUEC 2065 and SOCL 2211 or equivalent

OCS 4040 CHEM 1201, MATH 1550, and PHYS 2001

OCS 4124 MATH 1021, 1022, or 1023

OCS 4170 CE 2200 and graduate standing or consent of instructor

PSYC 3083 PSYC 2000 or 2060 and 2004

SOCL 2211 SOCL 2001 and 2201; or equivalent

SOCL 4091 SOCL 2001 or equivalent

SOCL 4711 SOCL 2001 or equivalent

**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>

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>

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

Update: 12/26/06

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