Ronald L. Schumann|Jeanne Tunks
Teaching social responsibility and geographic literacy through a course on social vulnerability in disasters
University of North Texas|University of North Texas
social vulnerability describes human susceptibility harm loss hazards hence understanding humanenvironment interactions underlie vulnerability essential aspiring emergency managers notably however pedagogical scholarship social vulnerability remains scarce address gap paper considers upperdivision undergraduate course integrates statemandated social science objective social responsibility next profiles teaching intervention signature assignment institute aimed improving alignment student assignments objective empirical comparison student assignments reveals statistically significant improvement quality postintervention finally paper discusses social vulnerabilitys aptness promoting geographic literacy social responsibility across curriculum resources improve student learning outcomes also identified