COURSE UNIT TITLE

: LOCAL AND REGIONAL GOVERNANCE IN THE EU

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
AVB 5057 LOCAL AND REGIONAL GOVERNANCE IN THE EU ELECTIVE 3 0 0 7

Offered By

European Union

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

Offered to

European Union

Course Objective

The course aims to provide the students ability to evaluate the approaches about Local and Regional Governance in EU in the process of European integration.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To define the importance of Local and Regional Governance,
2   To specify the basic arguments of Local and Regional Governance,
3   To define the importance of regional development,
4   To analyze the difference between governance and local and regional development,
5   To identify the applied local governance institutions in the EU,
6   To obtain the ability of doing independent research.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Definition and functioning of local and regional governance
2 Models of local and regional governance
3 The principle of subsidiarity and European Council
4 Interregional level of development differences
5 Agreements of local and regional governance congress 1
6 Agreements of local and regional governance congress 2
7 The basic arguments of regional development
8 Different approaches on regional development
9 Different approaches on regional development
10 Regional development: Case studies
11 Relationship between regional development and governance
12 Presentation
13 Presentation
14 Presentation

Recomended or Required Reading

- The Congress on Local and Regional Government (Leaflet)
- Committee of the Regions (Presentation)
- Yeşeren Elçin Arıkan (2004). Bütünleşen Avrupa da Yerel Yönetimler . Görüş, Mart.
- Elif Karabulut Tosun (2007). AB Üyelik Sürecinde Türkiye de Yerel Yönetimler ve Sivil Toplum Kuruluşları . Paradox, Temmuz.
- The Role of Regions and Cities as Mentioned in the Lisbon Strategy s National Progress Reports, 2008.
- Zerrin Toprak, Bölüm I ve II. (Zerrin Toprak, Hikmet Yavaş ve Mustafa Görün (2004). Yerel ve Bölgesel Yönetimler Kongresi Anlaşmalarında Avrupa Konseyi . Birleşik Yayınları, Izmir.
- METIS GmbH (2009). The Role of Regions and Cities as Mentioned in the Lisbon Strategy s National Progress Report. Committee of Regions, Brussels.
- Susana Borrás-Alomar, Thomas Christiansen and Andrés Rodríguez-Pose (1994). Europe of the Regions . Regional Politics and Policy 4(2): 1-27.
-Commission of the European Communities (2001). European Governance. White Paper, Brussels.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, class discussions, student assignments and presentations.

Assessment Methods

To be announced!

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

To be announced.

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Prof. Dr. Sedef AKGUNGOR
sedef.akgungor@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 3 42
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 14 14
Preparing assignments 1 10 10
Preparing presentations 1 5 5
Midterm 1 3 3
Final 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 129

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9
LO.13
LO.2443
LO.3333
LO.4333
LO.5333
LO.6333555

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