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Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type Of Course	D	U	L	ECTS
KMY 4021	DISASTER ADMINISTRATION	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 learn about new approaches about public administration and new administration strategies, to present administration techniques about emergency, to evaluate positon of Turkey by comparision with developed countries, to define sustainable cities of future are the main goas.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1	Being able to evaluate crisis and the process of crisis administration
2	Being able to discuss best applications about decision making and appliying organisations
3	Being able to discuss modern disaster administration models
4	Being able to develop new administrative strategies about natural disasters
5	Being able to analyze case studies

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week	Subject	Description
1	Presentation of a general overview on the subjects of the course `Natural Disaster-induced Crisis Management Definition of the basic terminology of the course
2	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
3	Phases of disaster and crisis administration, integrated disaster management
4	Experiences of countries about natural disaster management
5	Related legislation
6	Organizational and administrative structure about disaster administration in Turkey
7	Related legislation
8	Midterm exam
9	Local governments and disaster administration
10	Development plans and disaster administration
11	Location strategies and accomodation
12	Auditing of structures and its relation with disaster administration
13	Experienced events and future strategies (Avalanche, flood, freezing rain, tsunami, tornado, fire, earthquake, tsunami, avian influenza, epidemic invasion of grasshoppers and etc.) and crisis planning)
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

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	12	3	36
Preparations before/after weekly lectures	14	1	14
Preparation for midterm exam	1	18	18
Preparation for final exam	1	25	25
Preparing assignments	1	10	10
Preparing presentations	1	3	3
Final	1	1	1
Midterm	1	1	1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)			108

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LO	PO.2	PO.3	PO.4	PO.5	PO.7	PO.8
LO.1	1	1	1	1	1	1
LO.2	1	1	1	1	1	1
LO.3	1	1	1	1	1	1
LO.4	1	1	1	1	1	1
LO.5	1	1	1	1	1	1

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Description of Individual Course Units

Offered By

Level of Course Unit

Course Coordinator

Offered to

Course Objective

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

Mode of Delivery

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

Recomended Optional Programme Components

Course Contents

Recomended or Required Reading

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Assessment Criteria

Language of Instruction

Course Policies and Rules

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Office Hours

Work Placement(s)

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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