The Master of Natural Hazards program consists of 4 core courses and 2 electives of 6 units each and a special case study project of 12 units, a total of 48 units.

The 4 core courses are:

• EMSC8706 Introduction to Natural Hazards

• EMSC8707 Understanding Geologic Hazard

• ASIA8041 Thinking about Hazards and People

• ASIA8042 People At Risk from Hazards in Asia-Pacific

The special case study will involve the writing of a 15,000 word sub-thesis on a topic to be approved by the course lecturers and will comprise a body of work on an approved topic in natural hazards in the Asia-Pacific region.

The two approved elective courses from outside the program may be selected from the follow courses:

EMSC6015     Chemistry of Earth and Oceans

EMSC6020     The Lithosphere

EMSC6026     Environmental and Regolith Geoscience

EMSC8004     Current Topics in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics - A Practical Introduction

EMSC8002     Seismology

ENVS6013      Environment and Development exploring interactions through theory and practice

ENVS6015      Introduction to Remote Sensing and Geographical Information System

ENVS6309      Applied Geographic Information Science

PASI8007      Ideas and Issues in Pacific Politics

ANTH8006     Social Mapping and Community Politics

ANTH8009     Development in Practice

ANTH8007     Key Concepts in Anthropology of Development

POGO8021    Ethics and Public Policy

POGO8061    Gender and Policy

ARCH8032     Introduction to Archaeological Science

DEMO8008     Principles of Population Analysis

DEMO8024     Population and Society: Theory and Empirical Perspectives

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