The Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania just started a six-week course on the global implications of COVID-19 and how uncertainty can be managed during dramatic events.

The fully remote course, called “Epidemics, Natural Disasters, and Geopolitics: Managing Global Business and Financial Uncertainty,” began Wednesday. About 1,900 Penn students are registered for the course, according to its creator, Mauro Guillen.

More than 10 Wharton faculty members, including Guillen, are lecturers for the course. Some of the lesson titles include “Financial Market Reactions to the Coronavirus and Disaster Risk,” “Emotional Contagion and Epidemics” and “U.S.-China Relations after the Trade Wars and the Coronavirus.”

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