Disaster Management LeadershipSemester Course

DIS Copenhagen - Disaster Management Leadership
Major Discipline(s)
Leadership Studies, Management, Organizational Behavior
Type
Elective Course
Available
Fall/Spring semester
Credit(s)
3

Are you prepared to lead when disaster strikes? How do you respond as a leader during extraordinary crises? How do you make decisions with limited information and wide- ranging consequences? This course is focused on teaching you some of the skills it takes to respond to unusual emergencies and disasters. Together we explore cases and locations that have called for extraordinary leadership and management during unusual times. We learn about cultural and national differences and take inspiration for our own practice of leadership. The course is hands-on and interactive therefore, you are expected to contribute to a highly engaged learning experience and embody mature and responsible behavior.

Related Discipline(s)

This course would also be of interest to the following discipline(s):
Business, Social Entrepreneurship

Faculty

Dorte Mari Aggergaard

DIS Copenhagen Semester Faculty

M.A. (Modern Culture & Communication, University of Copenhagen). B.A. (Art History and Pedagogy/Educational Studies, University of Copenhagen and Roskilde University). Visiting scholar at the University of Leeds and Brown University. Member of the Denmark Committee at Brown, and DIS representative at Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), and Brown. Worked for EC Safer Internet Programme, recipient of an EU Lifelong Learning Programme grant for a project on cross-cultural learning. With DIS since 2014.