COURSE UNIT TITLE

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

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

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

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

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes