COURSE UNIT TITLE

: SOCIAL BEHAVIOURAL DIMENSION OF DISASTER AND EMERGENCY ADMINISTRATION

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
AFY 5008 SOCIAL BEHAVIOURAL DIMENSION OF DISASTER AND EMERGENCY ADMINISTRATION COMPULSORY 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Disaster Administration

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR ZERRIN TOPRAK KARAMAN

Offered to

Disaster Administration

Course Objective

The aim of this course is to develop knowledge and skills related to analytical thinking about how social structure and individual behavioral processess change.In this context, it involves researches related to changes in social structure and individual behavioral processess after disasters, relationships between social and individual issuess and political, economical, technological, ecological issues; individual and social perceptions; reactions, causes of their success and failures of sociaties, individuals and institutions; perceptions of disaster risks; decision-making in crises, sources of conflict and resolution technics, which factors effect cultural componentsand how, analysis of global relations.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Knowing and understanding concepts and theories related to social and behavioral dimensions of individuals,societies and institutions in emergency and disaster situations,
2   Thinking analitically and critically,
3   Wacthing ethical subjects in terms of relaitons among individuals, families, goups, organizataions, social networks, communities,
4   Watching and understanding the effects of emergency and disaster situations on individuals, sociaties and institutions and reactions

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 History of researches related to the effects of emergency and disaster situations on social structure and behavioral processes,
2 Relationships between social and behavioral dimensions and economical, technological, political and ecological issues,
3 Factors effecting emergency and disaster issues to become as a political subject,
4 Social processes in emergency and disaster situations,
5 Social groups and behaviors in emergency and disaster situations,
6 Factors effecting the process of individual, societial an institutional perception
7 Perception errors and attribution theory,
8 perception types of potantial emergency and disaster risks risklerinin algılanma
9 Decision making in emergency and disaster sitauations, problem solving methods,
10 Factors effecting cultural components in emergency and disaster situations,
11 Conflicts created by emergency and disaster situations, conflict management and conflict resolution technics,
12 Negotiation technics,
13 Handle of disaster, individual and sociatial change,
14 Presentation of projects

Recomended or Required Reading

Bosher,L, 2007, Social and Institutional Elements of Disaster Vulnerability, Bethesda Academic Press.
Derici, M.K., 2003, Doğal Afetlerin Afet çalışanlarına Getirisi Stres ve Stres ile Mücadele, Sivil Savunma, Sayı 172, 20-23,
Görgü, H.H., 2006, Afetlerde Ortaya Çıkan Temel Duygularımız ve Başa Çıkma Yolları, Sivil Savunma Yolları, Sivil Savunma, Sayı 184, 13-15
Karancı, N., 2004, Afetzede Psikolojisi, Iç işleri Bakanlığı Eğitim Dairesi Başkanlığı, Eet Yönetimi, 55. Dönem Mülki Idare Amirleri Semineri Ders Notları, Ankara
Türk Idare Dergisi, T.C. Içişleri Bakanlığı Yayınları.
Foreign Periodicals

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

- Lecture
- Being prepared to the course
- Discussion
- Case analysis, role playing
- Applications

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.20 + STT* 0.40 + FIN* 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.20 + STT * 0.40 + RST* 0.40


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

1. Exams based on discussions within the class
2. Assessment reports
3. Participation to discussions

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules


1. Participants should come to the class by reading all course materials
2. Participating to the class discussions is must.
3. Attending at least 70% of lectures is must
4. Plagiarism of any type will result in disciplinary action

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

omur.ozmen@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparation for midterm exam 1 8 8
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Preparing assignments 4 5 20
Preparing assignments 3 5 15
Preparing presentations 3 5 15
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 1 14
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 130

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7
LO.1333211
LO.2342333
LO.33323
LO.43333233

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