COURSE UNIT TITLE

: SOCIAL THEORY AND SPACE

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
PLN 4364 SOCIAL THEORY AND SPACE ELECTIVE 2 0 0 3

Offered By

City and Regional Planning

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ERDAL ONUR DIKTAŞ

Offered to

City and Regional Planning

Course Objective

Understanding Social Theory, defining and interrelating social processes and spatial forms, selecting actual researching issues and expressing them by forms of text/poster/movie are aimed in this Course.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   At the end of the Course Students can understand Social Theory as an epistemic frame (Comprehension)
2   Students can define the Social Proces and Spatial Forms (Knowledge)
3   Students can relate the Social Proces and Spatial Forms (Analysis)
4   Students can relate the Social Theory and Spatial planning/designing (Analysis)
5   Students can state the issues about the relationships between Social Theory and Spatiality by text/poster and movie (Practice)

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to the Social Theory: Social Relations in the City Course made as a conference presentation and discussion Reading list will be given in this week.
2 Spaces of Difference and Division Course made as a conference presentation and discussion
3 Embodied Spaces Course made as a conference presentation and discussion
4 Making Space Course made as a conference presentation and discussion
5 Midterm Examination The midterm exam will be in the form of a short text submission in which the choice of the subject for the Term Paper, the context in which the subject takes place, the importance, purpose, methods and resources of the study are presented.
6 Discussions and criticis on Midterm Exam Paper (outline/fiction of assignment) Grouping of proposals made for semester work on a personal basis; opening the group title as a course subject and criticizing the proposals in this context will be done.
7 Discussions and criticis on Midterm Exam Paper (outline/fiction of assignment) Grouping of proposals made for semester work on a personal basis; opening the group title as a course subject and criticizing the proposals in this context will be done
8 Discussions and criticis on Midterm Exam Paper (outline/fiction of assignment) Grouping of proposals made for semester work on a personal basis; opening the group title as a course subject and criticizing the proposals in this context will be done
9 Discussions and criticis on Midterm Exam Paper (outline/fiction of assignment) Grouping of proposals made for semester work on a personal basis; opening the group title as a course subject and criticizing the proposals in this context will be done
10 Submission of Assignment's Drafts This week, students will deliver semester study drafts in text/poster/film formats, etc.
11 Discussions and criticis on Drafts of Assignments Drafts made for the period study will be grouped on the basis of the subject and criticism of personal studies will be made
12 Discussions and criticis on Drafts of Assignments Drafts made for the period study will be grouped on the basis of the subject and criticism of personal studies will be made
13 Discussions and criticis on Drafts of Assignments Drafts made for the period study will be grouped on the basis of the subject and criticism of personal studies will be made
14 Discussions and criticis on Drafts of Assignments Drafts made for the period study will be grouped on the basis of the subject and criticism of personal studies will be made

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook:
Tonkiss, F. (2005), Space, the City and Social Theory, Polity, Cambridge.
Supplemantary Book:
Lefebvre, H. (1994), The Production of Space, Blackwell, Oxford.
Harvey, D. (2006), Sosyal Adalet ve Şehir, Metis, Istanbul.
Materials:
Other readings related to the course

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

In the first four weeks the course is practiced by the forms of conference presentations. At the fifth week the issues and outlines of term assignments are cleared by the Students. Till the tenth week term assignments issues and outlines are argued and critisized. At the tenth week the drafts of the term assignments that developed according to criticis are delivered by students. Assignment drafts will be discussed and critical until the end of the term, and in this way, the final submission will be tried to be more refined

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 MTEG MIDTERM GRADE MTE * 0.10 + ASG * 0.90
4 FINS FINAL EXAM
5 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTEG * 0.50 + FINS * 0.50
6 RST RESIT
7 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTEG * 0.50 + RST * 0.50


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods


Assessment Criteria

With the Midterm Exam (delivered Outline/Fiction of the assignment) The comperhension level of Social Theory as a knowledge frame by the students (Comperhension), Defining the Social Proces and spatial forms by the students (knowledge), associating level of social processes and spatial forms by the students (analysis) are evaluated. This evaluation is made through the measurments below:
1. Whether the context in which the topic of study selected for the term paper is in a strong relationship with the topic of Social Theory and Space
2. Whether the aim, the importance, the method and resources of the study are expressed in explicit way

In the submission of the draft to be made in the 10th week of the term paper (assignment draft submission), in addition to the criteria valid in the midterm, analysis and application levels are evaluated by :
1. Whether the discussion and criticis' that made up to the tenth week are taking into account by the students
2. Whether the most appropriate form such as text / poster / film to express the subject is selected
3.The clarity and competence levels of the Language used by the writers


In the Final Submission of the term assignment, it will be evaluated on the basis of the whole semester, taking into account the level of development of the term study in line with the discussions and criticisms on both the midterm exam (outline / fiction of assignment) and the Assignment Draft.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

The course will be continued in the form of conference presentations and discussions on semester work, with a reading list primarily based on current examples.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

erdal.diktas@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Wednesday 08:30-10:15

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lecture 12 2 24
Preparing assignments 2 15 30
Preparation for midterm exam 1 5 5
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 7 1 7
Final Assignment 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
Project Assignment 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 72

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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LO.11
LO.21
LO.31
LO.41
LO.51