COURSE UNIT TITLE

: DISASTERS ADMINISTRATION

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ESE 2059 DISASTERS ADMINISTRATION ELECTIVE 2 0 0 3

Offered By

Faculty of Engineering

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR YUNUS EMRE ÖZER

Offered to

Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Computer Engineering
Metallurgical and Materials Engineering

Course Objective

To learn about new approaches about public administration and new administration strategies, to present administration techniques about emergency, to evaluate positon of Turkey by comparision with developed countries, to define sustainable cities of future are the main goals.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Being able to evaluate crisis and the process of crisis administration
2   Being able to discuss best applications about decision making and appliying
3   Being able to discuss modern disaster administration models
4   Being able to develop new administrative strategies about natural disasters
5   Being able to analyze case studies

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Presentation of a general overview on the subjects of the course `Natural Disaster-induced Crisis Management Definition of the basic terminology of the course
2 Crisis and crisis management, historical development and etymological structure of the concept of crisis, stages of crisis management and integrated crisis management characteristics of crisis, crisis process, types of crisis, purpose and importance of crisis management,
3 Phases of disaster and crisis administration, integrated disaster management
4 Experiences of countries about natural disaster management
5 Related legislation
6 Organizational and administrative structure about disaster administration in Turkey
7 Related legislation
8 Midterm exam
9 Local governments and disaster administration
10 Development plans and disaster administration
11 Location strategies and accomodation
12 Auditing of structures and its relation with disaster administration
13 Experienced events and future strategies (Avalanche, flood, freezing rain, tsunami, tornado, fire, earthquake, tsunami, avian influenza, epidemic invasion of grasshoppers and etc.) and crisis planning)
14 Final exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Hikmet Yavaş (2005); Doğal Afetler Yönüyle Türkiye'de Belediyelerde Kriz Yönetimi, Orion Yayınları.
Dr. Ismail Gündüz (2009); Dünyada ve Türkiye'de Afet Yönetimi, Erdem Yayınları.

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 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.50 + FIN * 0.50
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.50 + RST * 0.50


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 2 28
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 2 28
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Midterm 1 1 1
Final 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 78

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10
LO.154445
LO.243
LO.35445
LO.4544
LO.555

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