COURSE UNIT TITLE

: DISASTER ADMINISTRATION

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
KMY 4029 DISASTER ADMINISTRATION COMPULSORY 3 0 0 4

Offered By

Public Administration

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR IBRAHIM GÜRAY YONTAR

Offered to

Public Administration (Evening)
Public Administration

Course Objective

The disaster administration course is a basic course and aimes to provide students with the knowledge and skills about the basic processes of disaster administration. The course provides knowledge and skills for managers to prepare for disasters and emergencies that may arise for natural and artifical causes, and to develop strategies and leadership in connection with them.
Today, in terms of the outputs and the administrative responsibilities in the disaster administration and considering Superior Local Administrative Officer s (Governor) primary responsibility, it is clear the necessity of the Disaster Administrative Course for students.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To be able to be equipped with general knowledge about basic organization of disaster administration.
2   To be able to comprehend and interpret the basic stages of risk and crisis types and crisis administration process
3   To be able to recognize the changing and strengthening role of the public administrator in risk and crisis administration
4   To be able to develop effective strategies for managerial processes, based on the ability to demonstrate leadership skills in disaster and crisis administration
5   To be able to gain competence in new and contemporary disaster administrationmodels in the future perspective by comparing past applications with current applications in disaster areas

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 General introduction to the course, presentation of the general framework of the topics of Disaster Administration course, Definition of the basic terminology related to the course, Corporate Loyalty
2 Concept of administration, developments in management strategies and contemporary approaches to cooperation in public administration
3 Relations of Disaster Types and Disaster Administration Process
4 Risk and crisis administration, historical development and etymological structure of concepts, features of crisis and integrated crisis administration
5 Extraordinary authorities in Turkish Public Administration and the place of crisis administration, crisis management practices
6 Early warning in disasters, damage reduction studies and preparation administration
7 Post-disaster EIA, rapid EIA philosophy and preparations
8 Midterm
9 Midterm
10 Intervention, search, rescue and protection actions according to disaster types Climate-related natural disasters include country experiences (avalanche, flood, freezing rain, hose, fire etc.) Country experiences (earthquake, tsunami etc.) according to development levels in crisis management due to natural disasters due to geological structures
11 Meteor rains, volcano activities (events and future scenarios)
12 Epidemic diseases (bird flu, grasshopper outbreak etc.) and crisis planning
13 Determination of the strategies of recovery in disasters, integrated administration
14 Sustainability Scenarios, Early Warning Systems in Disasters, Prevention of Education and Practice in Disasters, Importance.

Recomended or Required Reading

http://afetyonetimi.deu.edu.tr/ erişilebilen yayınlar
Bütünleşik Afet Yönetimi, (Edt. Zerrin Toprak Karaman/Asuman Altay), Izmir 2016,
Zerrin Toprak, Karaman, Afet Yönetimine Giriş ve Türkiye de Örgütlenme,s.1-35
Zerrin Toprak , Karaman, Afet Tiplerinde Erken Uyarı ve Afet Tipleri, 221 247
Zerrin Toprak, Karaman, Afetlerde Hızlı ÇED ve Alan Yönetiminde Kritik Sorgulamalar s.327-344
Güvenli Turizm Stratejik Eylem Planı,

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

- To remind the topics of the previous lesson for 15 minutes.
- To give a general overview on the topic of the current week.
- To give a lecture accompanied by a presentation prepared using the materials provided by the basic course book and other resources.
- To make control-oriented brainstorming practices during some weeks.
- To support the course topics with sample event examinations.
- To analyze the given case studies.
To internalize the knowledge of students through homework applications.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 MTEG MIDTERM GRADE MTEG * 1
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTEG * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTEG * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

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Assessment Criteria

-

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

-

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

zerrin.toprak@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

-

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 3 36
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 1 14
Preparing assignments 10 1 10
Preparing presentations 3 1 3
Preparation for final exam 25 1 25
Preparation for midterm exam 18 1 18
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 108

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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