COURSE UNIT TITLE

: CLIMATE CHANGE AND DISASTER MANAGEMENT

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
TOR 4086 CLIMATE CHANGE AND DISASTER MANAGEMENT ELECTIVE 2 0 0 2

Offered By

Natural Building Stones Technology

Level of Course Unit

Short Cycle Programmes (Associate's Degree)

Course Coordinator

RECEP KIRIŞ

Offered to

Mining Technology
Industrial Glass and Ceramics
Natural Building Stones Technology
Drilling Technology
Welding Technology
GEOTECHNICS
Civil Defense And Firefighting Programme

Course Objective

This lesson aims to analyze the impact and dimensions of climate change, as well as common strategies to combat climate change at the global level, the responsibilities of international roles, and what needs to be done individually.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Learn about the effects and dimensions of climate change.
2   Understands the roles of international organizations and actors in climate change.
3   Learning future strategies for climate change.
4   Understands the relationship between disaster management and climate change.
5   This contributes to strategies to be developed on climate change and disaster management.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 General information and introduction to the content of the course
2 The concept, extent and importance of climate change
3 Global consensus/conflict scenarios on climate change
4 Effects of climate change on humans and nature
5 Effects of climate change on humans and nature
6 Effects of climate change on humans and nature
7 Methods to combat the effects of climate change
8 Midterm Exam
9 Reducing carbon footprint to zero
10 International climate change strategies and agreements
11 International climate change strategies and agreements
12 Relationship analysis of climate change with disasters
13 Dimensional analysis of climate change with disasters
14 Measures that can be taken against climate change
15 General assessment of climate change

Recomended or Required Reading

will be announced

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, reading, active participation in the class, discussion. This course will be taught in the form of theoretical lectures in the classroom. While the instructor explains the topics and has them practice, he will create a discussion environment with the students in the form of questions and answers.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 PRC PRACTICE
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.50 + FIN * 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.50 + RST * 0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Midterm and final exams will be held to evaluate the students' meaningful learning of the basic concepts given in the presentations, their ability to relate the concepts to each other, to establish cause-effect relationships, to comment on questions or problems using their existing knowledge, and to evaluate their idea generation.

I. Midterm exam: 50%
II. Final exam: 50%
III. Resit exam

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

will be announced

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Dokuz Eylül University, Torbalı Vocational School
Lect. Recep KIRIŞ
recep.kiris@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

will be announced

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 2 28
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 1 13
Preparation for midterm exam 1 3 3
Preparation for final exam 1 4 4
Midterm 1 1 1
Final 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 50

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12
LO.11
LO.21
LO.31
LO.41
LO.51