Course level

Postgraduate Coursework

Faculty

Humanities and Social Sciences

School

Politic Sc & Internat Studies

Units

2

Duration

One Semester

Class hours

4 Seminar hours

Assessment methods

Participation, Blogs, Assignments

Course enquiries

Professor Timothy Dunne and Ms Luisa Ryan

Study Abroad

This course is pre-approved for Study Abroad and Exchange students.

This course is not currently offered, please contact the school.

Course description

The principal purpose of this course is to introduce researchers and practitioners to the decision-making and governance processes embedded in responses to humanitarian emergencies, illustrative of mass atrocity crimes, large-scale conflict, or environmental disasters. The course therefore equips graduates with a holistic understanding of the complexities of humanitarian emergencies, and respective responses, they will face in their future careers. The course uses the case-study method to examine different humanitarian emergencies with unlike causal pathways, varying timelines, but high levels of lethality to critically engage with the decision-making and governance complexities that influence responses to crises such as genocide, war, and natural disasters.

Archived offerings

Course offerings Location Mode Course Profile
Semester 1, 2020 (24/02/2020 - 11/07/2020) St Lucia Internal Course Profile
Semester 1, 2019 (25/02/2019 - 22/06/2019) St Lucia Internal Course Profile
Semester 1, 2018 (19/02/2018 - 23/06/2018) St Lucia Internal Course Profile