Anonymous Coward User ID: 39590371 United States 05/23/2013 08:11 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Free 6 Week Disaster Preparedness Course University of Pittsburgh It starts Aug 26 you can register now. About the Course This course will teach the student how to survive when everything we normally take for granted is gone, when the structures we depend on have failed. We will examine the Disaster Cycle, particularly the Mitigation and Recovery phases. Students will prepare an extensive personal preparedness plan covering such topics as supplies, communication, food and water, shelter, security, and comfort (yes even in survival there can and should be comfort). We also look at preparedness on the institutional and government levels. We will look beyond these plans towards the one aspect of survival, which will enable a person to survive when all planning has failed. Disasters, by definition, overwhelm all available resources. If all available resources are gone, only one thing will keep a person alive and that is their attitude. A persons awareness and attitude, the two are closely linked, allow a person the means to remain calm, avoid panic, and draw upon resources within and outside the person to survive when their world has failed. In truth not everyone survives in extreme circumstances; people die, but, even in death, attitude, if it cannot save you, provides some degree or comfort [ link to www.coursera.org (secure)] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 36668391 United States 05/31/2013 03:29 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Free 6 Week Disaster Preparedness Course University of Pittsburgh *waves terrible towel in thread* |
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User ID: 37755393 United States 07/17/2013 07:24 AM
Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Free 6 Week Disaster Preparedness Course University of Pittsburgh Can't attend due to work schedule, but ordered the books the course requires.
If anyone here goes, and I think at least one of you signed up, would you be kind enough to give us some of the more important tips on what to do, and not do?
I'd be massively grateful. |