COURSE UNIT TITLE

: INSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURE IN DISASTER MANAGEMENT

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
KMY 5131 INSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURE IN DISASTER MANAGEMENT ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Public Administration

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR GÖKHAN TENIKLER

Offered to

Public Administration

Course Objective

Examining the progress and altering aspects of Turkish disasters management system s administrative strategies historically and evaluating the activities of institutional constructions after this process by using modern disaster management approaches; analysis good practices about which are basic administrative functions related to disaster management from planning to budgeting in the world and evaluating the relation between the available institutional buildings and legislative arrangements by enhancing solution oriented strategies which are tackled with general problems about disaster management.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Learning the progress of institutional structures of disaster management in Türkiye
2   Comprehending the best practises in the world, analysing existing Turkish constructions comparatively.
3   Learning and able to solve the problems of disaster management which is related to centralized and local managements.
4   Teaching the importance of willingness mechanism concerning disaster management.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction, general information about the course, explanation of the concepts in general terms, evaluation of the importance of the course in the learning plan.
2 Presentation of a general overview on the subjects of the course `Integrated Administration during Natural Disasters , Definition of the basic terminology of the course
3 Crisis and crisis administration, historical development and etymological structure of the concept of crisis, characteristics of crisis, process of crisis, types of crisis, purpose and importance of crisis administration, stages of crisis administration and integrated crisis administration
4 Extraordinary administration authorities, place of crisis administration and practices of crisis administration in Turkish Public Administration
5 Related legislation
6 Related legislation
7 Administartive and institutional structuring relating to Natural Disaster Management
8 The authorities of emergency power during the Natural Disaster. Significance of Natural Disaster management and Natural Disaster Management enforcements in Türkiye
9 Country experiences by development level in climate-dependent natural disaster-induced crisis administration (Avalanche, flood, freezing rain, tsunami, tornado, fire and etc.)
10 Country experiences by development level in the administration of geological structure-dependent natural disaster-induced crises (such as earthquake and tsunami)
11 Analysing except for Country experiences by development level in climate and geological structure dependent natural disaster.
12 Potential natural disaster scenario about Türkiye
13 Evaluation
14 General evaluation and reminder, reviewing the degree of achievement of the learning outcomes of the course by making a situation analysis of the period.

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s)/References/Materials:
Textbook(s): R 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)

Supplementary Book(s): Related documents national as well as the international References:
Materials: Related legislation regulations as well as the articles and related materials to be assigned by the instructor of the course

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

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


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 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 1 14 14
Preparation for midterm exam 1 20 20
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Preparing assignments 1 24 24
Midterm 1 3 3
Final 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 126

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6
LO.1545454
LO.2545454
LO.3545454
LO.4545454

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