Tougaloo college catalog 2013 2015

Tougaloo College ecological and social organization; trends in present day communities.

Prerequisite: SOC 111. CREDIT: THREE SEMESTER HOURS. SOC 444: SENIOR SEMINAR. Required course for all senior Sociology majors. The course objective is to enable students to analyze topics related to social issues using sociological perspective and develop a proposal or an empirical paper. Students are required to complete a senior paper (generally a research proposal for empirical research) and make an oral presentation of the paper. Students are also required to take the comprehensive exam for Sociology. This course is offered only to Sociology majors during the spring semester of the senior year. CREDIT: THREE SEMESTER HOURS Interdisciplinary Minor: Disaster and Coastal Studies Disaster & Coastal Studies (DCIS) offers a multidisciplinary approach from social science perspective about the nature of natural disaster in the coastal zone, social aspects of catastrophes/disasters, and organizational issues inherent in preparedness, planning and managing all forms of disasters. The minor is designed to prepare students with skills and knowledge that are marketable in the fields of disaster and emergency planning, management, response, and recovery while simultaneously creating a basis for research studies in graduate school. Furthermore, the program will allow faculty and students to engage in cross-disciplinary research. Students from any major are eligible to pursue DCS minor. The minor consists of six (6) courses including forty (40) hours of practical internship experiences with local, state or federal agencies or NGO’s.

DCS 201: INTRODUCTION TO NATURAL AND MAN-MADE DISASTER. This course is designed to introduce the events that may have profound effect to derail normal living conditions of a huge segment of the population and recovery will not happen automatically. The course will provide overview of different types of natural and manmade disasters. Which will include hurricanes, cyclones, floods, drought, landslides, climate change, ozone depletion, rising sea level, oil spills, industrial wastes, water pollution, deforestation, air pollution, forest fires, etc. The course will also provide an overview of the after effects of disasters at state, national and global perspectives. CREDIT: THREE SEMESTER HOURS. DCS 211: PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUES IN DISASTER PREPAREDNESS. Page 290