COURSE UNIT TITLE

: IDENTITY AND SOCIO-CULTURAL STRUCTURE IN HISTORICAL ENVIRONMENTS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
CON 5044 IDENTITY AND SOCIO-CULTURAL STRUCTURE IN HISTORICAL ENVIRONMENTS ELECTIVE 2 0 0 6

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR EMINE IPEK ÖZBEK

Offered to

M.Sc. Urban Conservation Planning (Non-Thesis)
M.Sc. Urban Conservation Planning

Course Objective

Historical Environments beyond consisting the historical and cultural amenities, refer to the social abd cultural characteristics of cities in the past. However, social and cultural characteristics and identities of those places, as wells as their spatial characteristics change in time. This course aims to evaluate this process of transformation and change within the historical process with sample case studies within the framework of different theoratical and conceptual approaches.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Define social-cultural characteristics of the pre-industrail society within the historical environments.
2   Explain the transformation of the social and cultural characteristics within historical environments due to industrialization and globalization processes.
3   Describe the social and cultural transformation in historical environments within the framework of different theoretical perspectives
4   . Explain the different identity and social and cultural characteristics in historical environments
5   Identify the social cultural characteristics and identity in historical environments by case studies

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The social and cultural characteristics in the historical environments during the pre-industrial society
2 The effects of industrialization on the social organization of historical environments and evaluation of different approaches I.
3 The effects of industrialization on the social organization of historical environments and evaluation of different approaches II.
4 Urbanization and different approaches that explain the social and cultural transformation at the historical environments in the 20th century.
5 Ecological and Culturalist Approaches
6 Structuralist Approaches
7 The factors that affect the social and cultural structure of the historical environments: migration, poverty, informal sector
8 The global Dynamics that affect the social and cultural structure of the historical environments: Migration, post-forsdist production
9 Social exclusion; concentrated urban poverty; identity formations
10 Urban Regeneration and the effects of regeneration process on their historical urban environments
11 Processes of displacement
12 Research for the case study
13 Research for the case study
14 Presentation of the term papers

Recomended or Required Reading

Flanagan, W. G., 1999Urban Sociology, Images and Structure, Allyn and Bacon, London,Supplementary Books:
Aksıt, B. (1998) Icgoclerin Nesnel ve Oznel Toplumsal Tarihi Uzerine Gozlemler: Koy Tarafindan Bir Bakis,Turkiye de Ic Goc, (Istanbul: Tarih Vakfı Yayını).
Eckstein, S. (1990) Urbanization revisited: Inner city slum of hope and squatter settlement of despair, World Development, 18(2), pp. 165 181.
De La Rocha, G., Perlman, J., Safa, H., Jelin, E., Roberts, B. R. & Ward, P. (2004) From the marginality of the 1960s to the new poverty of today: ALARR forum, Latin American Research Review, 39(1).
Burgess, E. (1925) The growth of the city: An ıntroduction to a research project, in: R. E. Park and E. Burgess (Eds) The City, pp. 47 62 (Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press).
Castells, M. (1983) The City and the Grassroots (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press).

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

The course will be held by conferences, seminars and readings.

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

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

ipek.sonmez@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Monday 1030-12.00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 11 2 22
Preparing assignments 1 50 50
Preparation for final exam 1 30 30
Preparing presentations 1 40 40
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 144

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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