A Resilience Toolkit
In this minor students learn to develop a resilience toolkit for a community or organisation in a South African context. This includes a risk analysis (hazards, vulnerability, and exposure), a probability assessment, and mitigation strategies through systems thinking. Students choose a pre-identified real life project and work with local stakeholders to conduct their analysis and build their plan. The knowledge and skills developed in this minor are transferable to a multitude of contexts, including business, education, and wider community welfare. The minor is offered by the Thorbecke Academy in collaboration with NHL Stenden South Africa's Disaster Management program, providing unique expertise on risk and resillience.
Please note; South Africa's academic calendar has changed. This means that minors in South Africa for semester 1/period 1 will start in August instead of September and for period 2 in October instead of November.
Minor content
Subjects include, systems thinking, risk management, resilience, probability and likelihood calculations, hazard modelling, exposure analysis, vulnerability analysis, risk scoring and ranking, capacity reviewing, and cost benefit analysis.
Educational Methods include lectures to explore the theory, workshops to practice modelling and risk calculations, and atelier sessions (DBE) to practice real world applications. The module assignment comprises a comprehensive real life risk portfolio. Through AI modelling, students will learn to work with advanced resources that serve this growing field.
This minor is offered by the study program Hotel Management.
Structure of the minor
De minor comprises 10 week and 15 EC's and covers the following module learning outcomes:
1.) Apply risk assessment frameworks to evaluate resilience capacity in systems, communities, and organisations.
2.) Analyse the relationships between hazards, exposure, and vulnerability to understand factors influencing resilience.
3.) Develop evidence-based strategies to enhance system resliience by interpreting risk assessments and prioritising interventions.
Weekly contact hours include 2 hours of lectures, 2 hours of workshops, and 2 hours of assignment work and 4 hours of atelier sessions (DBE) plus weekly field trips.
Study features
The minor is assessed through participation (6EC) during weekly design challenges (20%) and a DBE Community Project (20%).
Final assessment (9EC) includes a reflection report (10%), the resilience toolkit report (20%), and a final presentation (30%).
This minor is open for all NHL Stenden students who have completed the first two years of their programme. The analysis techniques used in the resillience toolkit require basic math ability.