Economics of Disasters Online for Teachers

This set of lessons looks at a variety of natural disasters – from the Black Death of the Middle Ages to Hurricane Katrina in our too-recent memory, to fears of avian flu pandemics that haunt the future – through the lens of economic analysis. The contexts were chosen to facilitate the teaching of economic reasoning principles not only in economics courses, but also in history and the other social studies disciplines.

Course Specifics:

  • Cost: $175
  • Course Length: 12 weeks
  • Prerequisites: Successful completion of one other FTE online course, or other online course with instructor approval.
  • Curriculum: lectures, teacher background outlines,  lesson plans, and videos of classroom activity demonstrations.
  • Registration: Online (30 students per section, 1st-come-1st-served, based on receipt of deposit)
  • Optional graduate credit: 3 sem. hrs. graduate credit – University of Colorado, Colorado Springs – $306