MSc disaster resilience leadership
Degree
Masters of science in disaster resilience leadership
Description
Educating tomorrow’s leaders in disaster resilience and global humanitarian assistance.
Although there are many graduate programs that focus on disaster and risk management, none of them targets specifically the role and development of leadership and resilience in producing effective programs or outcomes, making the DRLS Academic Program the first with such a dynamic and innovative focus.
The Disaster Resilience Leadership Academy’s global research initiatives and programs unite multidisciplinary experts in order to apply a scientific framework to disaster risk reduction and humanitarian assistance, providing professional leadership training needed to strengthen community resilience and improve operational response.
Course structure
The DRLS Masters program is a 36 credit program that can be pursued in a traditional 2-year format, or can be taken in an accelerated 3 semester (12 month) timeframe. 18 of the required credits must come from completion of core courses, including four courses representing each of the core academic pillars and two research based classes
- Human Factors
- Disaster Risk Management & Leadership (3 credits)
- Leadership Analytics (3 credits)
- Environmental Hazards Sciences (3 credits)
- Research & Evaluation in Crisis & Disaster Settings (3 credits)
- Quantitative Analysis in Disaster Resilience (3 credits)
The remaining 18 credits can be taken through electives chosen to best match the student’s area of interest. The DRLA has developed electives tailored to the goals of the program and these are listed here:
- Evaluation and management for disaster response and humanitarian aid
- Crisis intervention innovation
- International legal protection
- Resilience theory in urban disaster settings
- Crisis informatics
- Vulnerable Populations
- Gender and Disaster Risk Reduction
- Disaster, Displacement & Resilience
Additional electives are available from within participating programs throughout Tulane, including the courses listed below:
- Senegal: Food security and nutrition (Site: Senegal)
- Combating Gender based violence (GBV): Social, legal and public health challenges to effective programming (Site: Kigali, Rwanda)
- Food aid and food security in humanitarian settings (Site: Rome, Italy)
- Food security and gender (Site: Rome, Italy)
- Public health in a world affected by man-made and natural disasters (Site: Geneva, Switzerland)
- Democracy, sustainable development and post-conflict and post-tsunami reconstruction (Site: Colombo, Sri Lanka)
Frequency
Bi-annual
Contact
DRLA, Tulane University,1555 Poydras, Suite 716, New Orleans, LA 70112
Phone: (504)314-2712
Email: [email protected]