COURSE UNIT TITLE

: POLITICS, SPACE AND SCALE QUESTION

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
URD 5080 POLITICS, SPACE AND SCALE QUESTION ELECTIVE 2 0 0 7

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ERDAL ONUR DIKTAŞ

Offered to

Urban Design
M.Sc. Urban Design

Course Objective

The aim of this course is examining the politics as social desicion mechanism, space as realization ground of politics and scale of realization through different formation zones.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Students will be able to define the scale question through space, time and organizational dimensions (Knowledge)
2   Students will be able to list the ways of different seeing of scale question within different field (Knowledge)
3   Students will be able to describe the relationship between determination and scale (Comprehension)
4   Students will be able to make a comperative study on different scales (Application)
5   Students will be able to fix the question between the city and the scale (Analysis)

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Scale question in general, Epistemological scale continuity Reading list will be given in this week.
2 Emergence of scale question in Critical Urban Theory
3 Scale as an epistemological framework
4 Dimensions of scale: Space, Time and organization Homework subjects will be given in this week.
5 Problem of organization, Probabilistic Determinism and Reproducion of Existance 1
6 Problem of organization, Probabilistic Determinism and Reproducion of Existance 2
7 Dialectic: From Probabilty toward the Determinism
8 Accumulative organizations, globalization and dimensions of scale 1: Modern World System and World System
9 Accumulative organizations, globalization and dimensions of scale 2:David Harvey, Compression of Space and Time
10 Relationship among Organization, emergence/power and determination in the context of Probabilistic Determinism
11 Evaluation of scale question within emergence/realization and power/determination
12 Homework/Submission/Presentation Students will be required to submit their homeworks and present their studies briefly to each other in this week.
13 Homework presentation Students will be required to present their studies briefly to each other in this week.
14 General assessment on politics, space and scale problem

Recomended or Required Reading

- Diktaş, E. O. (2010) Oluş-Gerçekleşme ve Etki-Belirlenim ilişkisi bağlamında mekan, zaman ve örgütlenme boyutları ile ölçek sorunsalı, unpublished PhD Thesis , DEÜ Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Izmir
- Manson, S.M., (2006). Does scale exist An epistemological scale continuum for complex human environment systems. Geoforum (2006), doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2006.09.010
- Marston, S., Jones, J. P., Woodward, K. (2005). Human geography without scale. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, NS 30 416 432 2005
- Meentemeyer, V. (1989). Geographical perspectives of space, time and scale. Landscape Ecology, Vol. 3 nos. 3/4, pp. 163-173.
- Moore, A. (2008). Rethinking scale as a geographical category: from analysis to practice. Progress in Human Geography 32(2) (2008), pp. 203 225
- Wu, J. ve Li H. (2006). Concepst of Scale and Scaling. Scaling and Uncertainty Analysis in Ecology-Methods and Applications içinde (sf.3-16). Dordrecht: Sipringer Pub.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

This course will be given through lectures and discussions. Homeworks which are related with student's own interested subjects and scope of the course will be asked in midterm. The homeworks that are drafted in midterm will be refining at the final exam. The aim of the teaching strategy is helping students to make connections between theorical and pratical aspects of general field and their own subjects.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 ASG ASSIGNMENT
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE ASG * 0.50 + FIN * 0.50
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) ASG * 0.50 + RST * 0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Defining, Listing (Knowledge), Describing (Comprehension) and Interpreting (Application) will be measured by Homework
Relating (Analysis) will be measured by Final Examination.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

This course will be given through lectures, visual materials, graphics, films and discussions over reading list.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

erdal.diktas@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Tuesday 13:30-14:30

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 2 24
Student Presentations 2 2 4
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 10 3 30
Preparing assignments 1 75 75
Preparation for final exam 1 30 30
Preparing presentations 1 4 4
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 169

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14
LO.11
LO.21
LO.31
LO.41
LO.51

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