Shelter and Settlements in Disasters
Course content
The course is designed to provide students with new learning on strategies, methods and guidelines promoting sustainability in the shelter response from relief to recovery and reconstruction. Students will be prepared to address shelter and settlements challenges in accordance with local needs and build on local resources. It is an important feature of the course to teach students to integrate risk and vulnerability reduction strategies in recovery programming. The students will learn to consider local building technologies and materials as part of "building-back-better" strategies. The course embraces the common phases of the emergency cycle, emergency shelter, transition shelter, early recovery, and reconstruction.
MSc Global Health - elective course
**This course is not offered in Spring 2025. The course will run in Spring 2026.
At the end of the course, the student will be able to:
Knowledge
- Demonstrate adequate knowledge of the humanitarian response system, the role and functioning of the shelter cluster and the various shelter and settlements typologies, tools, standards and approaches
- Display acquired strategic and practical knowledge of shelter and settlements policies, methods, tools and procedures in the humanitarian response system and will be prepared to practice these in a sustainable manner from relief to recovery.
Skills
- Identify key shelter and settlements challenges and opportunities, apply relevant shelter assessment methods and prepare sustainable shelter and settlements strategies relevant to specific intervention phases.
Competence
- Demonstrate a strategic and practical knowledge of shelter and settlements policies, methods, tools and procedures in the humanitarian response system and practice these in a sustainable manner from relief to recovery.
The methodology of the three course components combines
e-learning (Absalon system) with face-to-face campus learning. The
course includes an initial four-week knowledge building phase
followed by two weeks campus lecturing, group discussions,
workshops and written assignments. This phase will incorporate
visiting practitioners invited to share their knowledge and
real-time experiences during lectures and discussions. The final
two weeks e-learning is focused on a written assignment as the
final exam paper.
Some information about online learning
During the online weeks you will only meet and interact with your
teachers and fellow students in the University of Copenhagen's
online learning platform.
A typical E-module is composed of:
An introduction to the topic
An overview of the purpose, the subjects and the intended learning
outcome
A short study guide
Learning resources (which can be text, audio and/or video files)
Several exercises called E-lessons.
The E-lessons are online learning activities which can be
questionnaires, assignments or online discussions. The roles of the
teachers are to assist student learning by serving as E-moderators
for the various E-lessons.
Examiners provide a joint collective feedback on the examination via Digital Exam or Absalon.
Registration administratively after pre-approval of credit transfer application.
This course is not open for external students.
- ECTS
- 5 ECTS
- Type of assessment
-
Written assignment
- Type of assessment details
- Take-Home assignment
- Aid
- All aids allowed
- Marking scale
- 7-point grading scale
- Censorship form
- No external censorship
More than one internal examiner
- Exam period
-
See the MDMa Exam Schedule
- Re-exam
-
See the MDMa Exam Schedule
Criteria for exam assessment
To achieve the maximum grade of 12, the student shall be able to:
Knowledge
- Demonstrate adequate knowledge of the humanitarian response system, the role and functioning of the shelter cluster and the various shelter and settlements typologies, tools, standards and approaches
- Display acquired strategic and practical knowledge of shelter and settlements policies, methods, tools and procedures in the humanitarian response system and will be prepared to practice these in a sustainable manner from relief to recovery.
Skills
- Identify key shelter and settlements challenges and opportunities, apply relevant shelter assessment methods and prepare sustainable shelter and settlements strategies relevant to specific intervention phases.
Competence
- Demonstrate a strategic and practical knowledge of shelter and settlements policies, methods, tools and procedures in the humanitarian response system and practice these in a sustainable manner from relief to recovery.
- Category
- Hours
- Lectures
- 40
- Theory exercises
- 10
- Practical exercises
- 5
- E-Learning
- 60
- Exam
- 23
- English
- 138
Kursusinformation
- Language
- English
- Course number
- SGLK13014U
- ECTS
- 5 ECTS
- Programme level
- Full Degree Master
- Duration
-
Four (4) weeks of online learning and two (2) weeks of on-campus
- Placement
- Spring
- Schedulegroup
-
Combining four weeks of online learning with two weeks face-to-face learning in Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Capacity
- 10 participants
- Studyboard
- The Study Board for Public Health Science and Global Health
Contracting department
- Department of Public Health
Contracting faculty
- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
Course Coordinator
- Peter Furu (4-687774774275777066306d7730666d)
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