SDMM13006U Shelter and Settlements in Disasters
elective course
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.
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.
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.
- Category
- Hours
- Lectures
- 40
- Theory exercises
- 10
- Practical exercises
- 5
- E-Learning
- 60
- Exam
- 23
- Total
- 138
Examiners provide a joint collective feedback on the examination via Digital Exam or Absalon.
Apply online via MDMa - Shelter course
This course is open to external participants who fulfill the MDMa Admission criteria.
- Credit
- 5 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Written assignment
- Type of assessment details
- Take-Home assignment
Written assignment using tasks based on a given case in Digital Exam platform.
In total, the exam paper is 7-8 pages, excluding the cover page and reference list (1 page = approximately 2,400 keystrokes, font size 12 pt. line space 1.5). - 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 assesment
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.
Course information
- Language
- English
- Course code
- SDMM13006U
- Credit
- 5 ECTS
- Level
- Part Time MasterFull Degree Master choice
- Duration
- Four (4) weeks of online learning and two (2) weeks of on-campus
8 May to 2 June 2023- Online Learning
5 to 16 June 2023- On Campus in Copenhagen
19 to 23 June, 2023- Online Written Assignment/Exam - Placement
- Spring
- Schedule
- Combining four weeks of online learning with two weeks face-to-face learning in Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Course capacity
- 12-40 participants
Study board
- Study Board for the Professionel Master´s Degree Programmes at The Faculty og Health and Medical Science
Contracting department
- Department of Public Health
Contracting faculty
- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
Course Coordinators
- Peter Furu (furu@sund.ku.dk)
- Gert Lüdeking (gert_ludeking@yahoo.com)