COURSE UNIT TITLE

: SOCIOLOGY OF POVERTY

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
SOS 3011 SOCIOLOGY OF POVERTY ELECTIVE 3 0 0 4

Offered By

Sociology

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR YILDIZ AKPOLAT

Offered to

Sociology
Sociology (Evening)

Course Objective

The aim is to analyse what poverty effects on society.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To be able to analyse poverty in point of sociology
2   To be able to analyse reasons and results of poverty
3   To be able to analyse results of
4   To be able to evaluate relation of suburbs , poverty, and migration
5   To be able to analyse relation of poverty and crime

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 An Introduction to Sociology of Poverty
2 The concept of Poverty, Kinds of Poverty, and limits of Poverty
3 Poverty, child welfare, social services and education
4 Poverty and civic society
5 Poverty policies and globalization
6 Poverty from the point of social stratums
7 Poverty and related concepts
8 Poverty and related main social theories
9 Basis of welfare culture
10 Midterm exams
11 Social exclusion, inclusion and Integration of the Poor to the city life
12 Poverty in ghetto area and suburbs

Recomended or Required Reading

To be announced.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

face to face

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

exams

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 16 3 48
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 16 2 32
Midterm 1 6 6
Final 1 12 12
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 98

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14
LO.1455
LO.2445
LO.344555
LO.4445
LO.545