| Course Name | Code | Semester | T+U Hours | Credit | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Earthquake Hazard Management | KDP 512 | 0 | 3 + 0 | 3 | 6 |
| Precondition Courses | |
| Recommended Optional Courses | |
| Course Language | Turkish |
| Course Level | YUKSEK_LISANS |
| Course Type | OPTIONAL |
| Course Coordinator | Prof.Dr. MURAT UTKUCU |
| Course Lecturers | Prof.Dr. MURAT UTKUCU, |
| Course Assistants | |
| Course Category | Teaching Suitable For Field |
| Course Objective | In this course, you will learn the origin of earthquakes that have the potential to deeply affect life in a place, the concepts of environmental hazards and risks in general, what are earthquake hazards and risks are in particular, how to manage earthquake disaster, how earthquake damage can be reduced, how to live with earthquakes and lessons learned from the earthquakes. It is aimed to bring the students in this knowledge. |
| Course Content | What is earthquake and why they occur, hazard in context, hazard and risk, hazard and disaster, what are environmental hazards, dimensions of disaster, disaster patterns and trends, risk assessments and disaster management, adjustments to hazard, earthquake hazards, mitigation and management of earthquake hazards, earthquake hazard in Turkey, lessons learned from the effects of the earthquakes in urban areas, ethic in earthquake science. |
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| # | Course Learning Outcomes | Teaching Methods | Assessment Methods |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Explains why do earthquakes occur? | Lecture, Question-Answer, | Short Answer Tests, |
| 2 | Have an idea about the effects of the earthquakes on urban areas | Lecture, Role Playing, | Short Answer Tests, |
| 3 | Learns hazard and risk terms with differences among them. Defines disaster term and lists its properties. | Lecture, Question-Answer, Brain Storming, | |
| 4 | Lists earthquake hazards with classifying them. | Question-Answer, | Short Answer Tests, |
| Week | Course Topics | Preliminary Preparation |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | What is earthquake?How does it occur? | |
| 2 | Why earthquakes are important for humankind? | |
| 3 | Terms of environmental hazard, hazard, and risk and what are the environmental hazards? | |
| 4 | Term of natural hazard: Physical exposure and human vulnerability to hazard | |
| 5 | Dimensions, patterns and trends of narural disasters | |
| 6 | Modification of hazard: Acception, sharing and mitigation of losses | |
| 7 | Earthquake hazard and its nature, primary earthquake hazards; Earthquake waves and ground shaking | |
| 8 | Secondary earthquake hazards: Liquefaction, landslides, rock and snow avalanches | |
| 9 | Modification of earthquake hazard: Disaster aid and insurance | |
| 10 | Event modifications | |
| 11 | Earthquake seminars: Earthquakes experienced and lessons learned | |
| 12 | Earthquake seminars: Earthquakes experienced and lessons learned | |
| 13 | Earthquake seminars: Earthquakes experienced and lessons learned | |
| 14 | Earthquake seminars: Earthquakes experienced and lessons learned |
| Resources | |
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| Course Notes | Utkucu, M. 2008. “Deprem Tehlike Yönetimi Ders Notları”, |
| Course Resources | 1.National Research Council, 2003, Living on the active earth: perspectives on eathquake science, National Academic press, 418 pp. |
| Order | Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |||
| # | Contribution of Course Learning Outcomes to Program Outcomes |
|---|---|
| 1 | Explains why do earthquakes occur? |
| 2 | Have an idea about the effects of the earthquakes on urban areas |
| 3 | Learns hazard and risk terms with differences among them. Defines disaster term and lists its properties. |
| 4 | Lists earthquake hazards with classifying them. |
| Evaluation System | |
|---|---|
| Semester Studies | Contribution Rate |
| 1. Ara Sınav | 60 |
| 1. Performans Görevi (Seminer) | 40 |
| Total | 100 |
| 1. Yıl İçinin Başarıya | 50 |
| 1. Final | 50 |
| Total | 100 |
| ECTS - Workload Activity | Quantity | Time (Hours) | Total Workload (Hours) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Duration (Including the exam week: 16x Total course hours) | 16 | 3 | 48 |
| Hours for off-the-classroom study (Pre-study, practice) | 16 | 2 | 32 |
| Mid-terms | 1 | 20 | 20 |
| Performance Task (Seminar) | 1 | 20 | 20 |
| Final examination | 1 | 30 | 30 |
| Total Workload | 150 | ||
| Total Workload / 25 (Hours) | 6 | ||
| dersAKTSKredisi | 6 | ||