COURSE UNIT TITLE

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR ŞEBNEM GÖKÇEN

Offered to

Urban Design
M.Sc. Urban Design

Course Objective

This course aims at defining the changing content of tourism, conceiving of urban aspects of tourism sector via its diversification, explaining the relations between culture-led regeneration developments and urban tourism as well as cultural tourism, analysing the tourism policies that shape the current trends and and criticizing the urban space created as result of these policies.

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

Urry, John (2002) The Tourist Gaze, Sage Publications, London, UK
Supplementary Book(s):
Bianchini, F. & Parkinson, M. (1993) Cultural Policy and Urban Regeneration: The West European Experience. Manchester University Press, NY, USA.
Hall, C.M. (2000) Tourism Planning. Prentice Hall, UK.
Law, C.M. (2002) Urban Tourism: The Visitor Economy and the Growth of Large Cities. Continuum, UK.
Richards, G. (2007) Cultural Tourism: Global and Local Perspectives. Haworth Press, NY.
References:
Evans, G (2001) Cultural Planning: an urban renaissance Routledge, UK.
Gold, J. & Ward, S. (1994) Place Promotion: The Use of Publicity and Marketing to Sell Towns and Regions. John Wiley and Sons, UK.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

This course will be given through lectures, discussions, readings.

Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Listing (Knowledge) , Describing (Comprehension) and Interpreting (Application) will be assessed by Research paper draft.
Relating (Analysis) and critical assessment (Evaluation) will be assessed by Final Submission of the research paper.

Assessment Criteria

Listing (Knowledge) , Describing (Comprehension) and Interpreting (Application) will be assessed by Research paper draft.
Relating (Analysis) and critical assessment (Evaluation) will be assessed by Final Submission of the research paper.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

sebnem.gokcen@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Tuesdays 10:30- 12:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes