COURSE UNIT TITLE

: CRISIS GOVERNANCE AND ADMINISTRATION IN NATURAL DISASTERS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ERA 4501 CRISIS GOVERNANCE AND ADMINISTRATION IN NATURAL DISASTERS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 4

Offered By

Public Administration

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR ZERRIN TOPRAK KARAMAN

Offered to

Public Administration
Public Administration

Course Objective

To recognize the types and characteristics of natural disasters and primarily earthquakes and
To know what kind of effects they have especially in urban areas are considered necessary for the management strategies likely to be implemented.
To have the knowledge about the developments in new management strategies and modern approaches in public administration
To introduce the management techniques applicable for emergency cases, evaluating the position of Turkey by examining the experience of developed countries that have acquired the skill of living with earthquakes and defining the future sustainable and livable cities by developing applicable models at local and national levels.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To provide the equipments required for considering the basic concepts with respect to natural disaster-induced crisis management within integrated administration
2   To know natural disaster-induced crisis issues by making connections with the administrative structures of our country and of the world examples
3   To educate public administrators of future on crisis management.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

HAZIRLIK - FOREIGN LANGUAGE PREPARATION CLASS

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 A General Overview of the Course and Introduction Presentation of a general overview on the subjects of the course `Natural Disaster-induced Crisis Management
2 Concept of management, developments in management strategies and modern approaches in public administration,
3 Crisis and crisis management, historical development and etymological structure of the concept of crisis, characteristics of crisis, crisis process, types of crisis, purpose and importance of crisis management, stages of crisis management and integrated crisis management,
4 Extraordinary management authorities and place of crisis management in Turkish
5 Public Administration and crisis management practices,
6 Related legislation
7 Related legislation
8 Mid-Term Exam
9 House Structuring and its Role in Natural Disasters, Settlement Strategies and House Structuring, Building Supervision and natural disaster-induced crisis relations
10 House Structuring and its Role in Natural Disasters, Settlement Strategies and House Structuring, Building Supervision and natural disaster-induced crisis relations
11 Country experiences by development level in climate-dependent natural disaster-induced crisis management (Avalanche, flood, freezing rain, tsunami, tornado, fire and etc.)
12 Country experiences by development level in the management of natural disaster-induced crises dependent on geological structures (earthquake, tsunami and etc.) Meteor rains, Volcanic activities (experienced events and future scenarios)
13 Epidemic diseases (avian influenza, epidemic invasion of grasshoppers and etc.) and crisis planning Presentation of Research Papers
14 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Hikmet Yavaş (2005); Doğal Afetler Yönüyle Türkiye de Belediyelerde Kriz Yönetimi, Orion Yayınları

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 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
2 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
3 MTEG MIDTERM GRADE STT * 0.40 + MTE * 0.60
4 FIN FINAL EXAM
5 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTEG * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
6 RST RESIT
7 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTEG * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


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)

Prof.Dr. Zerrin Toprak Karaman, Iktisadi ve Idari Bilimler Fakültesi, Iktisadi ve Idari Bilimler Fakültesi, Kamu Yönetimi Bölümü e-mail: 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 12 3 36
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 1 14
Preparation for midterm exam 1 14 14
Preparation for final exam 1 30 30
Preparing assignments 1 10 10
Preparing presentations 1 3 3
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 109

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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