COURSE UNIT TITLE

: SEARCH AND RESCUE IN EARTHQUAKES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
DEP 5015 SEARCH AND RESCUE IN EARTHQUAKES ELECTIVE 2 0 0 7

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASISTANT PROFESSOR ÇELIK TATAR

Offered to

EARTHQUAKE MANAGEMENT - NON THESIS
EARTHQUAKE MANAGEMENT

Course Objective

Turkey is located within the 1st earthquake belt. The most important casualties in earthquakes occur after unconscious acts on people. The main objective of the course is to raise acknowledged students about rescue in earthquake, fire extinguishment, entering the wreckage and gas struggling. Besides, with the help of first aid education, rescue service may be provided in extraordinary phenomena. Thus, the university students will be trained on rescue and work safety.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Graduates from different disciplines, seismic hazard analysis and earthquake sciences be equipped with theoretical and practical knowledge in the fields concerned.
2   Supports interdisciplinary research in this area, can promote to have the capacity,
3   Theoretical and practical areas of earthquake risk in the face of three coordination and planning able, solutions and applications to manage the skilled person to produce,
4   Having the ability to contribute to the spread of four earthquake awareness in society,
5   Scientific studies that can minimize the impact of a possible earthquake relevant organizations to share information and to have this work,

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Earthquake protection
2 Fear and panic
3 Fire and fire protection
4 What is emergency management
5 Light search and rescue
6 Heavy search and rescue
7 Team building
8 MID-TERM
9 Disaster psychology
10 Measures to be taken against nuclear biological and chemical threats
11 Practical first aid
12 Basic life support
13 Warning alarms
14 Related to search and rescue organizations, institutions and legal arrangements

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Kalaycıoğlu, G.,Uzun, Y., 1990, Tahlisiye Eğitimi TKI Eğitim Daire Başkanlığı Ankara, 1990 83 sayfa
2. ULUDÜZ, S., Kömür Madenlerinde Ilk Yardım
3. EKI Insangücü-Eğitim Yayını No:41 Zonguldak 1982 112 Sayfa

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Presentation
Homework

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 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)

E-Mail : celik.tatar@deu.edu.tr
Phone : +90 232 - 3017523 - 17523

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 6 72
Preparation for midterm exam 1 28 28
Preparation for final exam 1 40 40
Midterm 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 170

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12
LO.12233
LO.2323
LO.3332
LO.4323
LO.523