PA 5741 is also offered in Spring 2023
PA 5741 is also offered in Spring 2022
PA 5741 is also offered in Spring 2021
PA 5741 is also offered in Spring 2020
Spring 2023 | PA 5741 Section 001: Risk, Resilience and Decision Making (57575)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 1.5 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option No Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Enrollment Requirements:
- Graduate Student
- Times and Locations:
Second Half of Term
Tue,
Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, West Bank
- Enrollment Status:
Open (0 of 30 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Interplay between risk analysis, decision making, and policy in the context of new and emerging technologies, environmental and human well-being, risk and resilience. Assessment methods; risk management processes, issues and methods; role/treatment of uncertainty; factors in decision making; risk-based rule making; public values; risk communication and perception. Scientific, technical, social, political, and ethical issues. prereq: Grad student or instr consent
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?pcalow+PA5741+Spring2023
- Class Description:
- Interplay between risk assessment, decision making, and policy in the context of new and emerging technologies, environmental and human well-being, risk and resilience. Assessment methods; risk management processes, issues and methods; role/treatment of uncertainty; factors in decision making; risk-based rule making; public values; risk communication and perception. Scientific, technical, social, political, and ethical issues. prereq: Grad student or instr consent
This course embraces how risk assessment informs policy development and decision-making in a cross-disciplinary way by addressing core natural science issues on technological impacts and core social science issues on public values and perceptions of risk. It will cover important issues related to risk assessment, risk perception and risk communication.
- Grading:
- Grading will involve a combination of aspects covering attendance, essays, a quiz and a critical review of risk laws.
One essay (Assignment 3 is a practice and Assignment 5 is the one that will be graded) - worth 25%.
Quiz session 7 worth 25%.
Risk law policy assessments (Assignment 8) worth 30% (10% for presentations and 20% for written policy assessment).
Overall attendance and involvement worth 20%.
- Class Format:
- Classes will involve lectures from the instructor and interactive sessions where class members will express views based on readings. Risk principles will be translated into practice when the class divides into groups to critically assess risk laws.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/57575/1233
- Past Syllabi:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/pcalow_PA5741_Spring2019.pdf (Spring 2019)
http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/pcalow_PA5741_Spring2018.pdf (Spring 2018)
http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/pcalow_PA5741_Spring2016.pdf (Spring 2016)
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 21 February 2018
ClassInfo Links - Spring 2023 Public Affairs Classes Taught by Peter Calow