COURSE UNIT TITLE

Offered By

DISASTER MANAGEMENT, NON-THESIS (Evening)

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR ZERRIN TOPRAK KARAMAN

Offered to

DISASTER MANAGEMENT, NON-THESIS (Evening)

Course Objective

The aim of this course is to have the emergency and disaster management participants to gain knowledge and skills associated with to the logic of the scientific method. In this context, ıt is intendet to provide the process of qualitative and quantitative research methods, description of fundamental problems of research, the literature of emergency and disaster management, formulating theoretical models, measurement and methods of data gathering, case applications, analysis of financial outcomes, semi-experiantial designs, statistical data and making applications.lysisdesign, and qualitative and statistical analysis of data. Students will be afforded to opportunity to begin to conduct research on topics within the field of emergency and disaster management. This course is intended to provide a foundation from which the student may use the knowledge and practices gained in this course throughout the rest of their graduate program.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Recomended or Required Reading

Ariz, A., 2011, Sosyal Bilimlerde Araştırma Yöntemleri, Nobel yayınları, Ankara,
Quarentelli, E.L.H., 1994, Draft of a Sociological Disaster Research Agenda fort he Future: Theoretical Methodological and Empirical Issues, Disaster Research Center Univ. Of Delaware Newark Delaware USA,
Tolley M., Lakta, R., 2012, Tolley s Handbook of Disaster and Emercency Management,3rd Ed., Routledge,
Yurtkapı, E.S., Durmuş, B., Sosyal Bilimlerde SPSS Veri Analizi, Beta Yay., Istanbul
Foreign periodicals

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

- Lecture
- Prepering course assigments
- Discussing
- Case studies
- Applications

Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

To be announced.

Assessment Criteria

1. Searching related literature
2. Designing a research by using research methodology
3. Interpreting data

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Prof. Dr. Ömür N. Timurcanday Özmen

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes