COURSE UNIT TITLE

: DISASTER ADMINISTRATION AND TERRORIST ATTACK

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
AFY 5032 DISASTER ADMINISTRATION AND TERRORIST ATTACK 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 aim of the course is to provide the ability to solve and resist the direction of threat of chaotic atmosphere emerged by different reactions which disasters create on settlement security. Nowadays, terrorist attacks are one of the important reasons of major crisis. Terrorist attacks threaten city-region and country security in every level. Issues such as crisis administration (including risk) linked to terrorist attacks, the assessment of terrorist risks along with law enforcement agencies, the planning of intervention operations after attacks, the anxiety that may arise in society, the management of fear and panic require disciplinary approaches. The course "Disaster Administration and Terrorist Attacks" which can be evaluated as a basic lesson is to teach the public manager the knowledge and skills about the evaluation of terror risks, analyzing and managing crisis situations related to terrorism in disaster plans in the world and our country where the terrorist incidents are frequent.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To learn what terrorism is, its types, characteristics and sources, to evaluate risk and crisis situations,
2   Having knowledge about regional and global terror organizations,
3   To guess the attack direction of terrorist groups and to know their strategies
4   To see and to eliminate the threats arising from imperfections in the administration,
5   To know the economic and social effects of terrorism,
6   To know the political causes and consequences of terrorism, to see networks of influence, to develop concrete preventive proposals.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Public Security and Classification of Threats Generally, Definition of basic terminology related to the course (risk, security, threat, ethics, law enforcement, terror, organization)
2 State, State of Law and the Elements of Democracy,
3 Human rights and The concept of security in the international law
4 Elements of Urban Security and Settlement Security, Quality of Life Indicators
5 The definition of terrorism in history and the changing definition of terrorism in the 21st century, terrorism with traditional weapons and mixed structures today.
6 The recognition of the terrorist threat in national and international dimensions, evaluation and para-biotic attacks
7 Chemical, biological, radioactive and nuclear terrorist attacks and case studies
8 Midterm Exam
9 Chemical, biological, radioactive and nuclear terrorist attacks and case studies
10 Human resources of terrorism socio-economic, cultural infrastructure relations
11 Security alarm in public administration, public charing in crisis and risk management
12 Organizational structures developed about terror-state-society dynamics and organization analysis
13 Organizational structures developed about terror-state-society dynamics and organization analysis
14 Terrorist attacks from the mistakes of the administration (poverty, immigration, deprivation etc.) and country examples and administrative evaluations
15 Scenarios of natural disasters and terrorist attacks, possible administrative mistakes and administrative evaluations
16 Final exam

Recomended or Required Reading

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
Zerrin Toprak(2016), Kent Yönetimi ve Politikası, Özel Bölüm, Kent Güvenliği , Siyasal Kitapevi, Ankara.
Uluslar arası Güvenlik ve Terörizm Dergisi Çeşitli Sayıları
Insani Güvenlik ve Terörizm ile Mücadele çeşitli yazılar internetten erişilebilir
Ulusal ve Uluslar arası Mevzuat , Avrupa Konseyi Anlaşmaları ve Sözleşmeleri

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 * 0.40 + STT * 0.20 + FIN * 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + STT * 0.20 + 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)

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

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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