George A. Youngs, Jr., Ph.D.
Degrees:
- Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1981
- M.A., University of Iowa, 1974
- B.A., Drake University, 1971
Dr. George Youngs has been a member of the North Dakota State University faculty since 1978. He has teaching responsibilities in both the Department’s sociology and emergency management programs. Dr. Youngs contributes to the sociology program by teaching courses in social psychology and research methods.
In the emergency management program, he teaches introduction to emergency management, the sociology of disaster, and disaster analysis. Dr. Youngs helped to design and gain approval for an emergency management minor, major, master’s degree, and doctorate degree. Several years ago, Dr. Youngs coordinated a two-year program with North Dakota’s Department of Emergency Services where expert trainers from the Division provided, free of charge to NDSU students, a repeating cycle of four, distinct, one-credit, emergency management workshops. That program has been supplanted by a new course offering, Introduction to Emergency Management, but Dr. Youngs still works with the North Dakota Department of Emergency Services, via a summer course for NDSU students, to provide a complex, interactive disaster exercise for North Dakota’s Boys State.
Finally, both Dr. Youngs and Dr. Daniel Klenow are participating in the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute’s new master’s program in military logistics, supported in part by the U. S. Department of Defense, to teach a course in crisis analysis and homeland security.
Dr. Youngs' research interests include a wide variety of applied topics in social psychology, methods, and disaster studies. In disaster studies, Dr. Youngs’ research has included two surveys, pre and post 9/11, studying citizens’ perceptions of terrorist threat and their support of civil liberties. In addition, he is working with Dr. Katherine O’Neill from NDSU’s Psychology Department on a grant to study the resilience of small communities following major flood fights in this region’s Red River Valley.
Courses:
- Sociology 110, Introduction to Sociology
- Sociology 214, Social Interaction
- Sociology 340, Social Research Methods
- Sociology 341, Social Research Methods Lab
- Sociology 418/618, Social Psychology
- Sociology 420/620, Sociology of Disaster
- Emergency Management 201, Introduction to Emergency Management
- Emergency Management 481, Disaster Analysis
- Transportation Logistics 713, Crisis Management and Homeland Security
