COURSE UNIT TITLE

: EUROPEAN UNION DISASTERS ADMINISTRATION POLICIES

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
AFY 6012 EUROPEAN UNION DISASTERS ADMINISTRATION POLICIES ELECTIVE 3 0 0 7

Offered By

Disaster Administration

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR ZERRIN TOPRAK KARAMAN

Offered to

Disaster Administration

Course Objective

The objective of the course is to assess the direction of development of policies and strategies which are based to administrative and legislative harmonization studies of Turkey, as a country of the Council of Europe and a country desiring to become a member of the European Union, about disaster administration and to analyze the effects of these strategies to today applications.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To learn fundamental thought of disaster administration policies in the European Union.
2   To learn legislation and administrative responsibilities in the Europe Union harmonization works.
3   To see deficits of Turkey by examining the issues relating to Union Acquis.
4   To learn cooperation models between European Union and the other related international institutions on disaster administration.
5   To learn best practices about disaster administration in the member countires of European Union.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Development Process of Disaster Administration Thought in the World
2 Regional Reflections of Global Developments: Level of Europe
3 Intellectual and Institutional Structure of European Union
4 Mental and Strategical Dimensions of Disaster Administration in the European Union
5 European Union Disaster Statistics
6 Chronological Development of related issues of Union Acquis
7 Chronological Development of related issues of Union Acquis
8 European Union Civil Protection Mechanism
9 Disaster Preparedness and Prevention Initiative for South Eastern Europe (DPPI SEE)
10 European Union and Voluntary Intstitutions on Disaster
11 Adaption of Turkey to the Union Acquis about Disaster Administration
12 Chosen European Member Countries and Their Best Practices
13 Student presentations
14 Student presentations

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s): Dana Procházková, et al., Disaster Management in the EU Present and future: Challenges for Research, 2012.
Olsson, Stefan (Ed.); Crisis Management in the European Union, Cooperation in the Face of Emergencies, 2009.
Zerrin Toprak (2012); Çevre Yönetimi ve Politikası, Üçüncü Baskı, Birleşik Matbaa, Izmir.
References:
Disaster statistics in Europe. PreventionWeb/UNISDR. http://www.preventionweb.net/english/countries/statistics/index_region.php rid=3. (Accessed: 02.01.2015).
The international disaster database: EM-DAT. Center for research on the epidemiology of disasters-CRED. http://www.emdat.be/country-profile. (Accessed: 02.01.2015).
Bayntun C, Rockenschaub G, Murray V. Developing a health system approach to disaster management: A qualitative analysis of the core literature to complement the WHO Toolkit for assessing health-system capacity for crisis management. PLoS Curr. 2012 August 22; 4: e5028b6037259a.

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 * 0.25 + STT * 0.25 + FIN* 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE* 0.25 + STT * 0.25 + 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 20 3 60
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 36 1 36
Preparation for midterm exam 1 12 12
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Preparing assignments 1 20 20
Preparing presentations 1 12 12
Final 1 6 6
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 168

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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