COURSE UNIT TITLE

: CONVERSATION OF URBAN HERITAGE AND TOURISM

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
CON 5061 CONVERSATION OF URBAN HERITAGE AND TOURISM ELECTIVE 2 0 0 5

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

Offered to

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

Course Objective

This course aims to give information about issues such as conservation and planning policies, cultural heritage, space identity, city as a commodity and brand, and also aims to make evaluations in settlements with a historical core -whether attached or not attached to heritage tourism- based on field surveys and in this sense to attract attention to potential risks of heritage tourism and provide an understanding of sustainable heritage tourism that conserves the unique characteristics of space through regarding local people and promoting the participation of local actors.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   At the end of this course, students will be able to define the conservation and planning policies in historical settlements,
2   will be able to explain the heritage tourism policies developed in global and national contexts,
3   will be able to interpret the risks caused by heritage tourism in historical environments,
4   will be able to relate the issues of urban and cultural heritage, identity of space, branding strategies, heritage tourism and sustainability,
5   will be able to propose policies and strategies for the development of a sustainable heritage tourism.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Concepts, Importance and Conservation of Urban and Cultural Heritage
2 Concept of Space Identity, Principles of the Development of Space Identity
3 City as a Product: Branding Strategies
4 Branding, Marketing and Commercialisation of Urban Heritage
5 Relationship of Heritage and Tourism, Heritage Tourism and Sustainability
6 Evaluation of Heritage Tourism Policies: Global Context
7 Evaluation of Heritage Tourism Policies: National Context
8 Midterm Examination
9 Determining the Settlements Carrying Potential for or Already Integrated to Heritage Tourism, Developing the Content and Outline of Homework and the Student Groups
10 Field Survey
11 Evaluation of and Discussion on the Draft Data of the Field Survey
12 Evaluation of and Discussion on the Draft Data of the Field Survey
13 Submission of Homework Assignments and Presentation
14 General Discussion over the Reading List

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s): Ashworth G.J. and Larkham P.J. (eds) (1994), `Building a new heritage - tourism, culture and identity in the New Europe , Routledge, London.
Supplementary Book(s): Ashworth, G.J., and Tunbridge J. E., (1990), The tourist-historic city. London: Belhaven.
References: Nasser, N. (2003), `Planning for Urban Heritage Places: Reconciling Conservation, Tourism, and Sustainable Development Journal of Planning Literature, Vol. 17, No. 4, s.467-479
Materials: Other readings related to the course

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

This course will be given through lectures aided by visual material and the students will learn topics by attending the lectures. Homework assignments will be prepared in accordance with the course content and presented by the student groups.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.25 + ASG *0.25 +FIN *0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.25 + ASG *0.25 +RST *0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Interpreting, Relating and Proposing will be measured by Homework Assignments/Presentation.
Defining and Explaining will be measured by Final Examination.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

This course will be given through lectures and discussions over reading list and visual material.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

ahu.dalgakiran@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Wednesday 09.30-10.00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 10 2 20
Tutorials 2 2 4
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 4 6 24
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparing assignments 1 30 30
Preparing presentations 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 12 12
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 114

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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