COURSE UNIT TITLE

: GLOBAL MT SECURITY STRATEGIES

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
DDD 6049 GLOBAL MT SECURITY STRATEGIES ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Maritime Security, Safety and Environmental Management

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR BURAK KÖSEOĞLU

Offered to

Maritime Security, Safety and Environmental Management

Course Objective

Global maritime security risks, best management practices against of the piracy, international and regional cooperation, ISPS practices, analyzing of the unstable ares in terms of the global trade and logistic, analysing possible effects of the global economic developments in terms of sociology to maritime security, contribution/effects of regional and international trade, economy and social center of powers to maritime security.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   1. Evaluation of the programs and international maritime and security regulations.
2   2. Investigations security threats in the sea and piracy, smuggling, contraband cases and analysis prevention methods.
3   3. Analyzing of the relations with terrorism and maritime transport.
4   4. Investigation port security management and analyzing high level port operations/practices.
5   5. Evaluating of the reducing security threats strategies.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Maritime transport mode and sea ports
2 Documentation, financial business, business organizations in maritime transportation
3 International maritime and security regulations and programs
4 Cargo supply chain security vulnerability
5 Sea Problems: Piracy and Smugglers
6 Drug Trafficking with cargo, container and ships
7 Midterm
8 Terrorism and Maritime Transport
9 Detailed strategic project for high level port security
10 Port Security Management
11 Threat reduction strategies
12 Information security and assurance
13 Maritime transportation security: usages of military situational awareness system technology for maritime transport operation
14 General evaluation

Recomended or Required Reading

Maritime Security An Introuction, Michael McNicholas, Elsevier, 2008
Maritime Terrorism Risk and Liability Micahal D. Greenbeg, Peter Chalk, Henry H. Willis, Rand Corporation 2006
Transportation Security: Clifford Bragdon, Elsevier, 2008

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Study homework and litrature review

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 * 0.20 + STT * 0.30 + FIN* 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.20 + STT * 0.30 + RST* 0.50


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Expert level in global maritime security and knowledge, skills and competency, research, investigation, interpretation, oral and written skills and competencies will be evaluated.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

yusuf.zorba@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparing presentations 2 5 10
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 4 52
Preparation for midterm exam 1 15 15
Preparation for final exam 1 14 14
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 132

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12
LO.15
LO.25533
LO.35
LO.45
LO.535

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