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Academic Staff Courses

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Courses given by the Department of Earthquake Studies

Course Code	Course Name	METU Credit	Contact (h/w)	Lab (h/w)	ECTS
EQS500	M.S. THESIS	0	0.00	0.00	50.0
Course Content A program of research leading to the M.S. degree is decided between the student and a faculty member. Students register to this course at all semesters starting from the beginning of their second semester while the research program or write-up of thesis is in progress.
EQS501	EARTHQUAKE DISASTER POLICIES	3	3.00	0.00	8.0
Course Content Natural and technological hazards and their impacts as subjects of policy; forms and levels of disaster policies; pre-disaster and post-disaster policy orientations; conflicts in natural and social systems and processes; central and local administrations and disasters; operational tools of policy, emergency management; risk avoidance, minimization, and sharing; administrative and legal structures in disaster management; hazard and risk assessment mitigation planning and its tools; safety standards in land use; policies to upgrade safety in existing urban areas; appropriate structuring of risk sharing mechanisms and insurance; training, professional and public education.
EQS503	SEISMOLOGY	3	2.00	2.00	8.0
Course Content Principles of elastic wave propagation and their application to exploration seismology, the determination of earth structure, and the understanding of earthquake physics. Topics include: necessary mathematical tools (vectors and tensor analysis), fundamentals of elastic wave (stress, strain, elasticity, the equation of motion, wave equations), and advanced theories of seismic wave propagation within the earth (ray theory, body waves, surface waves and normal modes), basics of seismometry, seismic structure of the earth (radial and lateral heterogeneities), and physics of earthquakes (double couple, moment tensor, kinematics and dynamics). Strong ground motion parameters, response and design spectrum concepts, ground motion prediction equations.
EQS505	FUNDAMENTALS OF EARTHQUAKE STUDIES	3	3.00	0.00	8.0
Course Content Introduction to multidisciplinary facets of disasters in general; human and environmental safety requirements. Overview of geological and geophysical aspects of earthquakes, identification and classification of resulting hazards and damages. Analysis of sources of mistakes and faults causing structural and infrastructural hazard; basic survey of hazard and damage reduction; disaster and risk management. Basic rescue, first aid and rehabilitation operations. Multidisciplinary aspects of earthquake hazard mitigation; organizational and administrative activity flows. Benefits of implementing interactive and parallel tasks among public agencies; roles of non-governmental or governmental academic, technical and other institutions in disaster management. Introduction to and emphasis on public educational programs for disaster preparedness.
EQS506	PRINCIPLES OF DISASTER RESILIENCE	3	0.00	0.00	8.0
Course Content Resilience of critical infrastructure. Institutional, social and economical resilience. Resilience assessment. Interdependency Analysis. Indicators of resilience.
EQS508	PRINCIPLES OF DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT AND RISK REDUCTION	3	0.00	0.00	8.0
Course Content The principles of disaster risk reduction and management strategies; best practices around the World and Turkey
EQS590	SEMINAR	0	2.00	0.00	10.0
Course Content This seminar consists of meetings among the department staff, invited speakers and graduate students to discuss the recent developments in Earthquake Studies. Each student is requested to present a seminar covering the research results, preferably before the final stage of writing his/her thesis.