SOCIETAL RISK MANAGEMENT OF TECHNOLOGICAL HAZARDS

RMI 650

The assessment, control, financing and management of risks deriving from pressures on and damages to the environment, workers and local/foreign communities. Risks include liability and directors and officers law suits, boycotts, regulations and competitors' actions.

C&ESOC/SOC 245

Covers technology, the social forces shaping its development, and social impacts of its adoption. Examine one's assumptions about technology and its relationship to society.

LSC 625

Examines risk as a central concept in the communication process. Since risk is intrinsically an interdisciplinary concept, the examination will rely on literature from a wide range of disciplines and perspectives, such as communication, psychology, sociology and formal risk analysis. Case studies will be drawn from a wide range of global issues and cultural contexts, including environmental, technological or health risks; food safety risks; international military crisis or threats of terrorism; and natural disasters.

RMI 705

Develop insight into the principles of risk management, including institutions engaged in identifying, assessing, preventing, mitigating, and transferring risk. Specific focus is given to how the digitization of data, technology, and analytics are creating a new risk landscape, and how conventional risk management approaches can adapt to meet these emerging business needs.

ISYE/NE 574

Methods for risk and reliability analysis of engineered systems, particularly as applied in the nuclear power industry. Fault trees and event trees, Bayesian data analysis, probabilistic risk management. Some familiarity with nuclear plant safety systems is helpful, but not required.