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

Architecture
City and Regional Planning

Course Objective

The main purpose of this course is try to understand the conditions of humanity to make sense of reality, to express it, to reshape it materially/spiritally as a space, and to reproduce it by living as a complex whole like a city. The students will be solidifying that comprehension through selecting relevant researching issues and expressing them by forms of texts/posters/movies.

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

Supplementary Book(s):
Ferenc, G. (2014) The Political Discourse of Spatial Disparities- Geographical Inequalities Between Science and Propaganda. Springer International Publishing Switzerland.
Catalano, T., Waugh L. R. (2020) Critical Discourse Analysis, Critical Discourse Studies and Beyond. Springer International Publishing Switzerland.
Eagleton, T. (2014) Ideology- Routledge, Taylor and Francis, New York.
C. Greig Crysler (2003) Writing Spaces Discourses of Architecture, Urbanism and the Built Environment, 1960-2000, Architext Series. Routledge, New York.

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 criticized. At the tenth week the drafts of the term assignments that developed according to critics are delivered by students. Assignment drafts will be discussed and critical until the end of the term, through that way, the final submission will be tried to be more refined.

Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

The midterm exam will be presented as a framework in which students outline the semester work they need to complete.
Homework/Presentation will include a written and short oral presentation of the semester's studies outlined in the midterm exam, excluding the conclusion and evaluation.
At the end of the semester, the term studies will be completed and the printed & digital delivery will be realized.

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

English

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)

To be announced.

Office Hours

Wednesday, 5th and 6th hours

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes