| Course Unit Title | Course Unit Code | Type of Course Unit | Level of Course Unit | Year of Study | Semester | ECTS Credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disaster Management | SSP333 | Elective | Associate degree | 2 | Spring | 5 |
Name of Lecturer(s)
Associate Prof. Dr. Serpil GERDAN
Assistant Prof. Dr. Mehmet Aytaç ÇINAR
Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
1) Explains phases of disaster management system, emergency and risk management concepts
2) Recognizes the stakeholders in disaster management system, their jurisdiction and responsibilities
3) Verifies the risk transfer methods.
4) Practices the Incident Command System
5) Explains the legislation of disaster management system in Turkey
6) Makes SWOT analysis and their applications.
Program Competencies-Learning Outcomes Relation
| Program Competencies | |||||||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | ||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||||||
| 1 | No relation | High | Middle | Middle | High | Middle | Middle | High | Middle | High | Middle | No relation | |
| 2 | Low | Low | Low | No relation | Low | Low | Middle | No relation | Middle | No relation | Middle | Middle | |
| 3 | Middle | Middle | Low | Middle | Low | No relation | No relation | No relation | No relation | No relation | No relation | No relation | |
| 4 | No relation | No relation | No relation | No relation | No relation | No relation | No relation | No relation | No relation | No relation | No relation | No relation | |
| 5 | No relation | No relation | No relation | No relation | No relation | No relation | No relation | No relation | No relation | No relation | No relation | No relation | |
| 6 | No relation | No relation | No relation | No relation | No relation | No relation | No relation | No relation | No relation | No relation | No relation | No relation | |
Mode of Delivery
Face to Face
Prerequisites and Co-Requisites
None
Recommended Optional Programme Components
Not Required
Course Contents
This course covers the definition and classification of disasters, principles of integrated disaster management, preparedness, search, rescue, first aid, temporary residences, duties of organizations in course of a disaster, economical aspects of disaster, methods used in disaster management, repairment or replacement after disasters, related legislations, and how the concept of disaster management evolved after the 1999 distructive earthquake.
Weekly Schedule
1) What are the Disasters? How can they classified? What are their properties?2) Vision, Mission and Principles of Integrated Disaster Management
3) Phases of Disaster Management – Introduction to Preparedness, Response, Recovery and Mitigation Phases, Risk and Emergency Management Concepts, their advantages and disadvantages.
4) Disaster and gender.
5) Preparedness Phase – Rapid Response ans Early Warning Systems, Disaster Scenarios, Emergency Action Plans.
6) Response Phase – Search and Rescue, First Aid, Sire Safety, Security Systems.
7) Incident Command System and its applications
8) Midterm exam
9) Recovery Phase – Temporary Residences, Housing, Repairment or replacement of roads,public buildings and bridges, Implementation of Mitigation Measures.
10) Mitigation Phase – Economical Aspets of Disasters, Risk Transfer Systems: Disaster Funds and Insurance, DASK as an example.
11) SWOT Analysis – Information, Methods and Examples
12) Stakeholders in Disaster Management Systems (Central and Local Governments, Private Sector, NGOs and Citizens) – Their responsibilities and duties. Legisletion of Disaster Management System in Turkey, evaluation of the situation after 1999 Earthquakes.
13) The usage of resources in Disaster management and responsibility of other agencies
14) Evaluation, Comparison and Examples of Disaster Management Systems from different Countries over the World and Turkey
15) Term summary
16) Final Exam
Recommended or Required Reading
1- AFAD Temel Afet Bilinci
2- Afet Yönetişimi, Nehir Varol, Timur Gültekin
3- Ders notları
Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
1) Lecture
2) Question-Answer
3) Discussion
4) Group Study
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Contribution of Midterm Examination to Course Grade |
30% |
|---|---|
Contribution of Final Examination to Course Grade |
70% |
Total |
100% |
Language of Instruction
Turkish
Work Placement(s)
Not Required