People's acquaintance with disasters is as old as human history. The situations that occurred in the areas where disasters occurred in the past are also happening in the form of similar events today. However, the effects of disasters do not produce similar results all over the world. The most important factor in this is the difference in the consequences that people draw from the event and the frequency of occurrence of disasters. A striking example of this situation is the loss of approximately 16.000 people in the East Marmara (Gölcük) earthquake with a magnitude of Ms=7.4 on 17 August 1999. Another important point is that human-induced disasters are added to the disasters that occur today, for example; Fires caused by various reasons, nuclear explosions and global warming can be considered as disasters and negatively affect human life with their results. This Program; It is a field that is intertwined with health, civil defense, first aid, physical education, communication technologies, engineering and biology. The aim of this department is to train innovative, investigative and entrepreneurial experts who are equipped with the knowledge and skills related to their profession to carry out and manage all kinds of loss reduction activities, especially coordination in case of disasters, measures such as pre-disaster education, awareness raising, project development.
