We encourage our students to gain multi-disciplinary experience and training to support the field of urban resilience. Leveraging the strength of the Urban Resilience Initiative faculty and others at Stanford, we support students to gain in-depth expertise in a discipline relevant to the urban resilience field (earth-sciences, engineering, statistics, etc), a breadth of knowledge covering a multi-disciplinary curricula, research experience aimed at pushing the boundary of current knowledge while answering to real-world needs.
If you are interested, please contact one of our faculty for guidance on courses. You will find below a non-exhaustive list of courses supporting the skillset for resilience research and practice.
Courses
CEE 209S: Disaster and Climate Resilience Seminar
This seminar series will explore approaches to quantifying, communicating, and improving the resilience of urban areas in the face of climate change and disasters. Speakers from diverse disciplines, including planning, policy, and engineering, will present on adaptations, policies, projects, and future visions of resilience.
Through guest lectures, supplemental readings, and group discussions, participants will engage with the complex challenges of climate resilience and disaster impacts, as well as the value of multi-disciplinary perspectives on disaster resilience.
SUSTAIN 101D: Sustainable Innovation for Disaster Resilience
Disaster resilience embodies two concepts: adaptation and recovery. As climate change exacerbates the occurrence and intensity of environmental disasters, innovators and decision makers must collaborate to help vulnerable communities and the build environment adapt to and recover from shocks and stresses in a sustainable way without compromising long-term development. This course is tailored to solution-oriented students who are comfortable focusing on wicked problems, and care about the complexity of sustainable and equitable innovation. The course intends to teach students how to lead the design and implementation of products and services that will help real people who are experiencing disaster, with an emphasis on those facing disproportionate effects due to historical contexts. This course is only open to undergraduate students.