Not offered in the current semester · Last offered AY2024/2025 Semester 2
In this course students will read works on social theories of risk, uncertainty, politics of knowledge, risk society, sociotechnical vulnerability, and social construction of crisis and disaster. The course is designed to provide a range of sociological theories on risk and crisis with empirical cases from western and non-western societies.
| AUs | 4.0 AUs |
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| Prerequisite | HS1001, HS2001, HS2002, HS3001, HS3002, HS1004 |
| Not Available To Programme | ACBS, ACC, ACDA, ADM, AERO, AISC, ARED, ASEC, BACF, BASA, BCE, BCG, BEEC, BIE, BMS, BS, BSB, BSPY, BUS, CBEC, CE, CEE, CEE 1, CEEC, CHEM, CHIN, CMED, CNEL, CNLM, COMP, CS, CSC, CSEC, CVEC, DSAI, ECDS, ECMA, ECON, ECPP, ECPS, EEE, EEE 1, EEEC, EESS, ELAH, ELH, ELHS, ELPL, ENE, ENE 1, ENEC, ENG, ESPP, HIST, HSCN, HSLM, IEEC, IEM, LMEL, LMPL, LMS, MACS, MAEC, MAEO, MAT, MATH, ME 1, ME(DES), ME(IMS), ME(NULL), ME(RMS), MEEC(DES), MEEC(IMS), MEEC(NULL), MEEC(RMS), MS, MS-2ndMaj/Spec(MSB), MTEC, PHIL, PHMS, PHY, PLCN, PLHS, PPGA, PSLM, PSMA, PSY, REP, SCED, SPPE, SSM |
| Not Available To All Programme With | |
| Not Available As BDE/UE To Programme | SOC |
| Not Available As Core To Programme | |
| Not Available As PE To Programme | |
| Mutually Exclusive With | |
| Not Offered As BDE | |
| Not Offered As Unrestricted Elective | |
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Total hours per week: 8 hrs
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AY14/15
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