[G-01] Comprehensive disaster prevention education

[G01-06] Turning points for disaster prevention education including epidemics and diversity in Kyushu University

*Megumi Sugimoto¹ (1.Office for the promotion of Gender equiality Kyushu University)

Keywords:The 2016 Kumamoto earthquakes, The 2017 heavy rain in northern Kyushu , COVID-19, diversity, epidemics, disaster prevention education

Kyushu University started classes "Disaster Prevention in Kyushu: how to learn protection yourself from the Kumamoto Earthquake" in 2017. This course is an omnibus lecture by faculty members from all over the faculty. This course was started as an open course of facility of arts and science for mainly first-year undergraduate students at the request of students. The class are lectured by faculty members from all over the faculty in Kyushu University. Students learn not only research by various specialized faculty members regarding disasters, but also support for the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake, the 2017 northern Kyushu heavy rain, and overseas disasters. Teachers from various faculties and Kyushu University Hospital have been in charge of this course regardless of the humanities and sciences. Lectures by various experts such as earthquakes, meteorology, disaster medicine, disaster dentistry, nuclear disaster prevention, temporary housing construction and student volunteers (KASEI), risk management, and ICOMOS activities included in UNESCO Memory of the World. At the end, the students were required to practice in the disaster area and to provide disaster prevention education for what they learned.
It is time to be included topics of diversity and epiedemic in this course under COVID-19 era. This resarch discuss how should it be changed for future.