COURSE UNIT TITLE

: DIALOG AMONG THE ACTORS AT DISASTERS

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ELECTIVE

Offered By

Distance Learning Non-thesis Master's Degree in Disaster Administration

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR ZERRIN TOPRAK KARAMAN

Offered to

Distance Learning Non-thesis Master's Degree in Disaster Administration

Course Objective

There are many institutions and organizations at central or local level the most important is AFAD- which are authorized about disaster management. These institutions constitute the main policy documents and strategies at disaster management. But to increase the level of participation while constituting these policies and applying them later is very important. Pursuing this process based on governance, negotiation, dialogue and meta-governance will increase the level of internalization of policies about disaster management. This course mainly aims to analyze these relations and to improve this process.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Be able to learn actors at disaster management,
2   Be able to analyze the applications based on governance at disaster management,
3   Be able to improve the ability of actors at disaster management to establish dialog,
4   Be able to develop strategies to improve the level of internalization of the decisions made at disaster management.
5   Ethical Behavior

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to lesson and meeting
2 Governace and its history
3 Concept of organizational governance and social responsibility
4 Multi dimensional governance
5 Global challenges and national and local governance
6 Actors at disaster management
7 Constitution of policies at disaster management
8 Midterm Exam
9 Opportunities of negotiation and cooperation at disaster management
10 NGO s at disaster management
11 Best practices of NGO s at disaster management
12 Participant role of local governments at disasters
13 Voluntarism and disaster management
14 Effect of education to participation at disaster management
15 Outcomes of dialog at disaster management
16 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Atlı, Ayhan (2014), Afet Yönetimi Kapsamında Japonya ve Türkiye Örneklerinde Kurumsal Yapılanma, Asil Yayın, Ankara.
Bütünleşik Afet Yönetimi, Ed.Toprak, Zerrin-Altay, Asuman, Izmir, 2017.
Özdikmen, Tayfun (2010), Afet ve Acil Durum Yönetimi, Seçkin Yayıncılık, Ankara.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

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 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.25 + STT * 0.25 + FIN* 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE* 0.25 + STT * 0.25 + RST* 0.50


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

To be announced.

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 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 5 70
Preparation for midterm exam 1 24 24
Preparation for final exam 1 24 24
Preparing report 1 36 36
Midterm 1 3 3
Final 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 202

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7
LO.15
LO.2555
LO.3555
LO.4555
LO.555555