COURSE UNIT TITLE

: INTEGRATED DISASTER MANAGEMENT

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
KMY 6039 INTEGRATED DISASTER MANAGEMENT ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Public Administration

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR ZERRIN TOPRAK KARAMAN

Offered to

Public Administration

Course Objective

Natural disasters are events that negatively affect livability and sustainability. Thus, recognizing the types and characteristics of natural disasters and primarily earthquakes and knowing what kind of effects they have especially in urban areas are considered necessary for the administration strategies likely to be implemented. In addition, the primary objectives are considered as having knowledge about the developments in new administration strategies and modern approaches in public administration, introducing the administration techniques applicable for emergency cases, developing crisis scenarios about natural disasters such as flood, tornado and tsunami caused by climatic reasons and primarily by earthquakes, examining the countries which have been experienced in this subject, evaluating the position of Turkey, and defining the sustainable and livable cities of the future by developing applicable models at local and national levels.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Recognizing the changing and waxing new role of public administrator related to crisis and disease management
2   Interpreting and cognizing main process of crisis and disease management.
3   Decorated with essential knowledge related to Disease management s cornerstone legislations.
4   Providing competence about new and modern disease management within future perspective by comparing used and new practices in the field of disease.
5   Taking into account the relation between disease management and crisis management, getting up skills which can give an opportunity to compare public agency and institute s operations involved disease management decision making and implementation responsibility best practices of the world.
6   Particularly upbringing public administrations on the subject of disease and crisis management, enhance administrative strategies by studying specific to samples of natural disaster .

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 `Integrated Administration during Natural Disasters , Definition of the basic terminology of the course
2 Concept of administration, developments in management strategies and modern approaches in public administration
3 Crisis and crisis administration, historical development and etymological structure of the concept of crisis, characteristics of crisis, process of crisis, types of crisis, purpose and importance of crisis administration, stages of crisis administration and integrated crisis administration
4 Extraordinary administration authorities, place of crisis administration and practices of crisis administration in Turkish Public Administration
5 Related legislation
6 Related legislation
7 Mid-Term Exam
8 House Structuring and its Role in Natural Disasters, Settlement Strategies and House Structuring, Building Supervision and natural disaster-induced crisis relations
9 Country experiences by development level in climate-dependent natural disaster-induced crisis administration (Avalanche, flood, freezing rain, tsunami, tornado, fire and etc.)
10 Country experiences by development level in the administration of geological structure-dependent natural disaster-induced crises (such as earthquake and tsunami)
11 Meteor rains, volcanic activities (experienced events and future scenarios)
12 Epidemic diseases (avian influenza, epidemic invasion of grasshoppers and etc.) and crisis planning
13 Presentation of Research Papers
14 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s): Hikmet Yavaş (2005); Doğal Afetler Yönüyle Türkiye de Belediyelerde Kriz Yönetimi, Orion Yayınları.
Bayındırlık ve Iskan Bakanlığı, Kentleşme Şurası ,2009, Kitap 4 (Afetlere Hazırlık ve Kentsel Risk Yönetimi Komisyon Raporu)

Supplementary Book(s): Related documents national as well as the international

References:
Materials: Related legislation regulations as well as the articles and related materials to be assigned by the instructor of the course

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 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.20 + FIN* 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.20 + 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

Turkish

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 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 2 28
Preparation for midterm exam 1 20 20
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Preparing assignments 1 20 20
Preparation for quiz etc. 1 20 20
Midterm 1 3 3
Final 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 156

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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