Contemporary Urban Issues
Political Science and Public Administration
Faculty of Political Sciences
First Cycle (Bachelor's Degree)
| Course Unit Title | Course Unit Code | Type of Course Unit | Level of Course Unit | Year of Study | Semester | ECTS Credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contemporary Urban Issues | SBK325 | Elective | Bachelor's degree | 3 | Fall | 4 |
Name of Lecturer(s)
Associate Prof. Dr. Örgen UĞURLU ORTAÇ
Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
1) Explain the relation between the concepts of urban and urbanization and interaction among site and individual.
2) Evaluate what values are based on observance of the urban phenomenon.
3) Identify the integration and accommodation problems that immigrants live in the urbanization process.
4) Corelate the umemployment cused by the divergence between industrialization and urbanization rate with the poverty it led to.
5) Distinguish and comment on between the requirements of urban transformation and its disadvantages.
Program Competencies-Learning Outcomes Relation
| Program Competencies | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| 1 | High | No relation | No relation | Low | No relation | No relation | No relation | No relation | |
| 2 | High | No relation | No relation | High | No relation | No relation | No relation | Low | |
| 3 | Low | No relation | Low | No relation | No relation | No relation | High | No relation | |
| 4 | Middle | No relation | No relation | No relation | No relation | No relation | Middle | No relation | |
| 5 | High | No relation | No relation | No relation | Low | No relation | No relation | High | |
Mode of Delivery
Face to Face
Prerequisites and Co-Requisites
None
Recommended Optional Programme Components
Urbanization
Course Contents
Courses will focus on issues such as urban renewal, urban regeneration, of being displaced, urban life, differentiation and separation, class, religion, ethnicity, relationships between women and space which are happened in the city to the fore recently.
Weekly Schedule
1) Introduction and course contents2) Changing Urban Sociology insights
3) Turkey urbanization experience
4) Methodological approach for urban transformation in Turkey
5) Industrialization process and cities
6) Urban and slum
7) Urban poverty and public policies
8) Midterm examination/Assessment
9) Social renewal
10) Immigration and gentrification
11) Urban conservation: For whom, why, and how?
12) Widespread satellite settlements
13) Voltage focus of urban social processes in the conversion of cultural identities
14) Gender of space
15) Perception of city/urban in the Turkish novels and films
16) Final examination
Recommended or Required Reading
Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
1) Lecture
2) Question-Answer
3) Discussion
4) Group Study
5) Case Study
6) Self Study
7) Problem Solving
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Contribution of Semester Studies to Course Grade |
40% |
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Contribution of Final Examination to Course Grade |
60% |
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Total | 100% | |||||||||||
Language of Instruction
Turkish
Work Placement(s)
Not Required