COURSE UNIT TITLE

: URBAN SOCIOLOGY

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
SOS 4002 URBAN SOCIOLOGY COMPULSORY 4 0 0 4

Offered By

Philosophy

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR GAZANFER KAYA

Offered to

Philosophy

Course Objective

The aim of the course to make the students gain historical perpective on urban and economics, urban and politics, urban and culture, and critical perpective on relation of urban and society.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Enables learning of the main conceptual framework of the subject area.
2   Enables the application of conceptual framework in the Turkish historical and social context.
3   Develops a fundamental understanding of the relationships between the subject area and the wider sociological knowledge and engenders a conceptualization of relevant social processes.
4   Develops a comparative perspective between the social processes prevalent in the subject area and the practical applications lived in everyday life.
5   Enables an in-depth understanding of the main debates of the subject area and its comparative reflections in the global social relationships
6   Enables an in-depth understanding of the main debates of the subject area and its comparative reflections in the global social relationships

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The birth of urban civilizations: Pre-modernity and the City
2 The Town-Country Conflict: Labor, Immigration and Industrialization
3 Industrialization and urban communities
4 Urbanism as a way of life: the city as the beacon of capitalist development
5 The Chicago School: Urban geography, urban economy, and urban ecology
6 The "Urban" as Ideology: Urbanism and Urbanity
7 Manuel Castells and his ideas on urban space as the site of collective consumption
8 Midterm exam
9 Conflict of space and society, David Harvey: The dialectics of society and space
10 Walter Benjamin: The dialectics of memory and space
11 The Society of Spectacle
12 The Urban Revolution: Henri Lefebvre
13 Postmodern Urbanism
14 Postmodern Urbanism
15 Genel değerlendirme
16 Final exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Kılıçbay, Mehmet Ali, Şehirler ve Kentler, Gece Yay, 1993; Weber, Max, Şehir ve Cemiyet, Iz Yay, 2000; Weber, Max, Modern Kentin Doğuşu, Bakış Yay, 2003; Pirenne, Henri, Ortaçağ Kentleri, Iletişim Yay, 2009; Berman, Marshall, Katı Olan Her Şey Buharlaşıyor, Iletişim Yay, 2010, Hillyard, Samantha, The Sociology of Rural Life,Berg Publishers, 2007; Calvino, Italo, Görünmez Kentler, YKY, 2010; Tanpınar, Ahmet Hamdi, Beş Şehir, YKY, 2001.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. Lecture
2. Discussion
3. Presentation

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + ASG * 0.25 + FIN * 0.45
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + ASG * 0.25 + RST * 0.45


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

1. LO 1-6:The student s performance will be evaluated by the questions that will be asked in midterm and final exams.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1. %70 attendance is required.
2. The participation in midterm and final exams will be considered in grading.

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 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 2 26
Preparation for midterm exam 1 12 12
Preparation for final exam 1 14 14
Other 1 6 6
Final 1 1,5 2
Midterm 1 1,5 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 104

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15
LO.15555
LO.235455
LO.3354534534
LO.444535543
LO.5454544
LO.644545

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