Courses / Module

On successful completion of the module, students should be able to:

• Recognise the importance of considering both social and physical processes in understanding disaster.
• Recognise forms, and causes, of human vulnerability to hazards.
• Critique approaches for disaster risk reduction.
• Outline the causes and impacts of common forms of natural hazards.
• Distinguish the pressures in modern civilisation working to alter hazard vulnerability.
• Critique past and present means of thinking about, and managing, ‘natural disasters’.

• 24 lecture hours

Delivery methods	Hours
Lectures	24
Labs / Practicals	0
Tutorials	0
Planned learning activities	0
Independent student activities	100
Total	124

• Module Graded (numeric value) or Ungraded (Pass/Not Passed): Graded
• Continuous Assessment detail(s): Continuous assessment will comprise assignments aligned to course content.

Assessment type	Options	Weighting	Duration
Continuous Assessment		50%
University scheduled written examination	On-campus	50%	60 minutes
Other		0%
Total		100%	60 minutes

• Pass standard: 40%
• Could the result of this module be capped? No

• Are supplemental/resit registrations permitted? Yes
• Resitting students may opt to do supplemental continuous assessment over the summer (details will be normally posted on the course Moodle page following the end of academic year exam boards and marks release). Only those students who have officially registered to repeat/resit this module in the Autumn will have submitted supplemental continuous assessment graded. For this module, it is possible only part of the continuous assessment work can be repeated in the Autumn as some components may be groupwork based. Supplemental assessment, if submitted, will automatically replace continuous assessment marks earned over the regular year, even if assessed at a lower grade. Continuous assessment marks for non-repeatable components will be carried forward to the resit examination period.
• University scheduled written examination (Autumn): 60 minutes, On-campus

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