Description
General purpose: To provide students with fundamental knowledge and tools about risk analysis to address professional challenges.General course objectives:
To share basic knowledge to understand, analyse, communicate, manage, and govern risk.
To encourage the use of risk science knowledge and tools in future students’ relevant professional challenges.
Duration: Customised to the particular arrangement.
Scope and form: Design and implementation of individualised tutoring, guiding documents, lectures and assignments. As an engagement strategy, a case analysis will be used throughout the course. The case will deal with understanding and analysing a specific risk challenge.
Target groups: Undergraduate students of different faculties.
Learning objectives
On completion of the course, a student will be able to:
•Understand the standardised notions of risk and related concepts.
•Distinguish the different steps in the risk management process.
•Understand the outputs of basic tools used in risk analysis.
Content:
Society for Risk Analysis’ definitions
Risk management process
Risk assessment
Risk register
Heat map
Basic notions of probability theory
Course Literature
1.Aven T (2019) The science of risk analysis: Foundation and practice. Routledge, London. https://doi-org/10.4324/9780429029189
2.Renn O (2009) Risk governance: Coping with uncertainty in a complex world. Routledge
3.Society for Risk Analysis (2018) Society for Risk Analysis glossary. Society for Risk Analysis web. https://www.sra.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/SRA-Glossary-FINAL.pdf.
4.Fenton N, Neil M (2018) Risk assessment and decision analysis with Bayesian networks. CRC Press.