COURSE UNIT TITLE

: ETHICAL VALUES IN DISASTER ADMINISTRATION

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
AFY 5024 ETHICAL VALUES IN DISASTER ADMINISTRATION ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Disaster Administration

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR ZERRIN TOPRAK KARAMAN

Offered to

Disaster Administration

Course Objective

The importance of determining and applying ethic behaviours like transparency, neutrality, honesty, accountability, seeking public interest both for public and private officers is getting more important. Teaching ethic values and related legal arrangements is aimed for his lesson. Because bases of problems before, during and after disasters are caused from not to obey the missions, rules and working principles of services. Internalization of philosophy of governance and establishing dialogues are the main goals of this lesson because of its primary importance for working together.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Be able to know basic legislation and international principles about ethic values,
2   Be able to know and solve the problems caused because of not to obey the ethic values before, during and after disasters,
3   Be able to realize responsibilities of public administrator among ethic codes of administration,
4   Be able to realize philosophy of governance and to gain ability to apply as a tool of effective coordination and cooperation in disaster administration
5   Be able to learn out of ethic developments in the past, to know problems and to gain an ability for interception,

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to lesson and meeting Ethic, Ethic For Public Services, An Ethic Public Administration
2 Ethic Philosophy and Moral Manners.
3 Philosophy of Governance and Ethic Investigation
4 Historical Development of Publc Services Ethic and Country/Institution Examples (Underdeveloped Countries, Developed Countries, EU)
5 Ethic Codes and Norms of Public Service
6 Legal Arrangement About Ethic in Turkish Public Administration
7 Ethic Institutional Organizations in Public Administration (Ethic Councils, Ethic Police, Ombudsman, Whistle Blowing, Council of Ethics for Public Service Ethical Evaluation Institutions of Turkey
8 Ethic in Local Governments Legislation (Ethic Codes of Urban and Regional Planning, Responsibilites of Administrators of Muncipalities, Public Factor)
9 Ethic Councils in Universities, Science Ethic
10 Ethic Dilemmas about Accountibility in Public Administration, Ethic-Conflict of Interests in Public Services, Public Officals and Ethic Problems
11 Corruption, Bribery, Bureaucracy and Ethic Values Against Political Favoiritism, Openness and Right to Reach Information
12 Information and Communication Technologies and Public Administration Organisations: e-Government and Ethic
13 Public Administration Reform and Ethic About Public Officers Reform and Importance
14 Ethic Responsibilites in Disaster Administration-Environmental Ethic

Recomended or Required Reading

Gülümden Ürcan(edit); Ide Yayıncılık, Izmir,

Zerrin Toprak (2012); Çevre Yönetimi ve Politikası, Birleşik Yayınları.

National and International documents and the books

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 * 0.30 + FIN* 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.30 + RST* 0.40


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

To be announced.

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Yrd.Doç.Dr.Yunus Emre Özer

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 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Preparing assignments 1 20 20
Preparing presentations 1 6 6
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 120

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6
LO.14
LO.244
LO.334
LO.443
LO.5444

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