COURSE UNIT TITLE

: DISASTER ADMINISTRATION

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
AFY 7027 DISASTER ADMINISTRATION COMPULSORY 2 0 0 7

Offered By

DISASTER ADMINISTRATION, NON-THESIS (Evening)

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

Offered to

DISASTER ADMINISTRATION, NON-THESIS (Evening)

Course Objective

Disaster Administration is a fundamental course and its purpose is ensuring to students basis information and the abilities about the whole processes of disaster administration, from planning to control in theory and framing. Training is directly related to the skills, knowledge, and strategies necessary to do a particular responsibilities related to do in this subject Also giving to the administrators and the other staff to the necessary information and the abilities in order to have them ready and advancing strategies in case of the risks and disaster types which may occur because various reasons.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Be obtain to the necessary knowledge about the fundamental organization in disaster administration in general,
2   Be able to learn the fundamental processes and be able to comment on the subjects about disaster administration,
3   Be able to learn the developing role of the public administrator concerning the facts which is required risk and disaster administration,
4   Be able to have qualifications about modern disaster administration models in future perspective via comparing the past applications with current applications,
5   Be able to advance strategies about efficient administrational process with working on sample natural disasters in order to grow future s administrators on disaster administration,
6   Be develop the ability to know and to compare examples of good practice in the world

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Presentation About The Subjects Of Natural Disaster Administration theory and the framing and Determine The Fundamental Terminology About The Course
2 Improvements On Administration Strategies And Modern Approaches On Co-Operations On Public Administration.
3 Disaster Types And Disaster Administration Process Relations.
4 Crisis And Crisis Management, Historical Improvement Of Crisis Management, Etymological Structure And Integrated Crisis Management.
5 Administration Authorizations In Turkish Public Administration in the area disaster, The Place Of Disaster Management, Disaster Management Implementations.
6 Depleting The Damage Practices And Preparation Method.
7 Organizational Structures In Private Sector And Co-Operation With Public Sector.
8 Warning Systems Before Disasters Occur, Trainings And Practices
9 Search, Rescue And Save Actions According To Disaster Types
10 Country Experiences In Disaster Administration Related To The Geologic Structures.
11 Meteor Stream And Volcanic Actions
12 Epidemics And Crisis Planning
13 Determining The Strategies Of Enhancement Process In Disasters And Integrated Administration
14 Presentation About The Subjects Of Natural Disaster Administration theory and the framing and Determine The Fundamental Terminology About The Course

Recomended or Required Reading

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)
Zerrin Toprak(2012); Çevre Yönetimi ve Politikası, Izmir

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)

zerrin.toprak@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparation for midterm exam 1 20 20
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Preparing assignments 1 20 20
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 3 42
Preparing presentations 1 20 20
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 168

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7
LO.15
LO.25
LO.35
LO.454
LO.544
LO.645

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