COURSE UNIT TITLE

: MARITIME POLICY

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
DDD 7009 MARITIME POLICY ELECTIVE 3 0 0 8

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR HAKKI KIŞI

Offered to

MARINE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS ENGINEERING

Course Objective

Understanding the relations and concerns of maritime policies as a guideline for priorities and strategies in various activities of marine transportation with other national and international policies. Discussing and asserting analytical approaches in solving the problems in the related issues, and to bring knowledgeable specialists up in being active participants in making consistent, balanced and sustainable maritime policies

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Knowledge acquisition in contemporary maritime issues
2   Understanding the factors affecting maritime policies and apprehending the effects of national and international policiesnderstanding the factors affecting maritime policies and apprehending the effects of national and international policies
3   Analysing the existing shipping policies
4   Acquiring the skills of making and applying the policies
5   Designing a system, a compound or a process to meet desired requirements within the realistic limitations such as economic,environmental, social, legal, political, ethical, safety, security,and sustainabilityDesigning a system, a compound or a process to meet desired requirements within the realistic limitations such as economic,environmental, social, legal, political, ethical, safety, security,and sustainability

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction, Span of shipping and the definitions
2 Shipping Markets
3 Components and Factors of Marine Transportation
4 Selection of Transportation systems and ıntermodal transport
5 Factors affecting policies, Principles of determination of policies
6 Economic policies and Transportation
7 Midterm Exam
8 Varieties of policies: Protective, liberal and anti-trust policies
9 The tools for applying policies
10 Maritime policies and their practices in the Word and in Turkey
11 EU common policy on transportation and Port policies
12 International labor movements and Seafarers
13 Horizontal and Vertical integrations in Maritime business
14 A general review and actual issues in shipping

Recomended or Required Reading

- Kay-Shek, Cho, Major Features of Shipping Policy , KMI, 2002.
- EU White Paper 1996
- Commission of EC Reports 1996
- Issues of the Journal of Maritime Policy and Management, Routledge, UK
- Özer, Didem. Türkiyede Deniz Ulaştırma Politikaları Oluşturma Süreci ve Stratejik Analizler, Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2010
- EU Port Policy 2007

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Literature review ,case studies, presentations and discussion

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 PRJ PROJECT
2 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE PRJ * 0.30 + MTE * 0.30 + FIN * 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) PRJ * 0.30 + MTE * 0.30 + RST * 0.40

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

English

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 13 3 39
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Preparing assignments 1 20 20
Preparing presentations 1 20 20
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 8 96
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 199

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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