Information Package / Course Catalogue
Disasters and Disaster Management
Course Code: SÖ150
Course Type: Area Elective
Couse Group: First Cycle (Bachelor's Degree)
Education Language: Turkish
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 2
Prt.: 0
Credit: 2
Lab: 0
ECTS: 4
Objectives of the Course

220/5000 The aim of this course is to enable students to classify disasters, to create disaster awareness in students and to help them understand the importance of cooperating in order to reduce the damages of disasters.

Course Content

Concepts of disaster and risk; reducing disaster, risk and losses; disaster training and its importance; disaster preparedness, disaster response, disaster recovery; natural and human disasters; effects of disasters on sustainable development; climate change and meteorological disasters; Turkey and disaster mitigation work in the world; earthquake regulation, efficiency in disaster management; disaster management cycle, disaster terminology; coordination, emergency and disaster coordination centers in disaster management; ethical values in disaster management, project presentations.

Name of Lecturer(s)
Learning Outcomes
1.Be aware of the concept and types of disaster.
2.Evaluates the effects of disaster on sustainable development,
3.To be able to prepare necessary plans for disaster preparedness
4.Turkey and around the world learn about disaster work
5.Turkey is one of the most earthquake disaster affecting learns what measures will be taken to mitigate the effects of landslides and floods as
6.Understands the importance of coordination in disaster management
7.Notices the importance of cooperation with emergency and disaster coordination centers.
8.Knows the importance of ethical values in disaster management.
Recommended or Required Reading
1.Hyogo Framework for Action (2005-2015), 2007, Building the resilience of Nations and Communities, United Nations, ISDR Publication 1037, Geneva.
2.Yaman, M. & Çakır, E. (2020). Farklı Boyutlarıyla Afet Yonetimi. Nobel.
3.UDSEP (2012-2023), 2011, Ulusal Deprem Stratejisi ve Eylem Planı, T.C.Başbakanlık Afet ve Acil Durum Yönetimi Başkanlığı, 83 sayfa, Ankara.
4.Deprem Bölgelerinde Yapılacak Binalar Hakkında Yönetmelik, 2007, Resmi Gazete 6.Mart.2007, Sayı: 26454.
5.Genç, F. N. (2021) Afet Yönetimi. Nobel.
6.Şahin, C. ve Sipahioğlu Ş. (2002). Doğal Afetler ve Türkiye. Ankara: Gündüz Eğitim ve Yayıncılık.
7.Sarp, N. (2014). Doğal Afetler Toplum Sağlığını Koruma. Nobel.
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
Week 1 - Theoretical
Disaster and risk concepts
Week 2 - Theoretical
Reduction of disaster, risk and losses
Week 3 - Theoretical
Disaster training and its importance; disaster preparedness
Week 4 - Theoretical
Natural and human disasters
Week 5 - Theoretical
Effects of disasters on sustainable development
Week 6 - Theoretical
Climate change and meteorological disasters
Week 7 - Theoretical
Disaster mitigation activities in Turkey and the world
Week 8 - Theoretical
Earthquake regulation, efficiency in disaster management; disaster management cycle, disaster terminology; coordination, emergency and disaster coordination centers in disaster management (Mid-term)
Week 9 - Theoretical & Practice
Ethical values in disaster management
Week 10 - Theoretical
Project Presentations
Week 11 - Theoretical
Project Presentations
Week 12 - Theoretical
Project Presentations
Week 13 - Theoretical
Project Presentations
Week 14 - Theoretical
Whole Class Project Presentations
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Type of AssessmentCountPercent
Attending Lectures1%5
Assignment1%5
Midterm Examination1%30
Final Examination1%60
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesCountPreparationTimeTotal Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory140228
Lecture - Practice2126
Assignment24212
Reading140228
Individual Work2024
Midterm Examination1819
Final Examination110111
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)98
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
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OÇ-1
4
2
2
4
3
4
3
OÇ-2
4
3
3
3
4
2
5
4
OÇ-3
5
5
3
3
3
4
3
3
4
2
5
OÇ-4
4
2
2
3
4
5
3
OÇ-5
5
4
4
4
3
5
5
3
4
4
OÇ-6
4
4
2
2
2
4
3
3
4
OÇ-7
4
4
2
2
2
4
4
3
2
4
OÇ-8
4
2
3
4
5
4
4
Adnan Menderes University - Information Package / Course Catalogue
2026