Safe Living Basics

2021/2022

Учебный год

ENG

Обучение ведется на английском языке

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Кредиты

Кто читает:

Центр поддержки студенческих инициатив НИУ ВШЭ

Статус:

Курс обязательный

Когда читается:

1-й курс, 1 модуль

Course Syllabus

Abstract

Life safety is an introductory course aimed at familiarizing first-year students with the peculiarities of HSE (academic and extracurricular). This discipline also focuses on the rules of personal safety in the metropolis. Students can find videos on topics in their LMS account. Learning and evaluation is carried out in an electronic educational environment on digital materials; the course is accompanied by master classes of representatives of the University who are responsible for the thematic sections of the discipline program.

Learning Objectives

• to assist students in mastering the basic concepts and methods of ensuring the safety of human life
• to form a holistic view of modern mechanisms of influence on the most important spheres of security in public and educational
• to contribute to the acquisition of practical skills in the aspects of ensuring the safety of students in the framework of life at the University, in a big city (Moscow), as well as skills of personal safety in the information and psychological spheres
• to contribute to the acquisition by students of knowledge, skills and security necessary for social and professional activities
• to use basic defectological knowledge in the social and professional sphere

Expected Learning Outcomes

• The student calls the basic rules of life safety in the metropolis
• The student calls the features of the structure of HSE
• The student describes the features of the organization of social support and material and technical base at HSE
• The student knows and takes into account the peculiarities of the educational process at HSE
• The student names and uses the ways of development of scientific and extracurricular competences of the student at HSE
• The student names the values of HSE, including those recorded in the Declaration of values
• The student plans life activities in the city taking into account the requirements of labor protection and safety rules in transport and public spaces

Course Contents

• Topic 1: Structure of HSE University
• Topic 2: University Values
• Topic 3: Study Processes
• Topic 4: Feedback
• Topic 5: Extracurricular Activities
• Topic 6: Legal Basics for HSE University Students
• Topic 7: Digital University
• Topic 12: Homework
• Topic 8: Social Sphere
• Topic 9: Student Safety in the Big City
• Topic 11: Visa ans Migration Support

Assessment Elements

• Hometask
  Evaluation process is carried out in an online format, e.g., homework is available to students via the LMS system in the section for the relevant course, while the results of the coursework are uploaded into the system in accordance with the set deadline.
• Exam
  The exam is conducted in the form of computer testing (with the right to use accessible information resources). The test may include multiple-choice questions that have one or more correct answers or a correlation of correct answers. The test includes 40 questions from the video course materials and regulations posted on the portal. Testing is carried out in the faculty-based computer classes. The managers of the programme offices of the degree programmes shall be responsible for conducting the exam. An appeal against results for the “Health and Safety” course is filed as per general rules. There is no special procedure for this course.

Interim Assessment

• 2021/2022 1st module
  0.6 * Exam + 0.4 * Hometask

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Diment, E. (2008). A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO TENANT FIRE SAFETY: PART 1. (cover story). Journal of Housing & Community Development, 65(3), 6. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=f5h&AN=33871141
• Diment, E. (2008). A Practical Guide to Tenant Fire Safety: PART 2. Journal of Housing & Community Development, 65(5), 34–36. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=asn&AN=35009722

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• South Carolina Office of the State Fire Marshal. (2017). Fire and Life Safety Guide. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.1B591084