COURSE UNIT TITLE

: POVERTY PREVENTION POLICIES AND SPATIAL ANALYSIS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
KMY 6083 POVERTY PREVENTION POLICIES AND SPATIAL ANALYSIS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Public Administration

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR GÖKHAN TENIKLER

Offered to

Public Administration

Course Objective

Poverty, is not only the expression of an economic deprivation in urban areas. ın the city residential areas, places where time spent and all the other social areas who live in high-income groups that differentiates reinforces the sense of deprivation. Stopping the reproduction of urban and rural poverty, the welfare of the country should be extended to all individuals. In this course, making analysis of the reproduction of poverty, and the spatial strategies of effective mitigation policies for rural and urban areas is to gain the ability to create

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Being able to gain information about poverty
2   Being able to evaulate the factors that maintain poverty
3   Being able to analyze sustainable city and rural areas and affects to local democracy
4   Being able to prepare entegrated politics and mitigation strategies to prevent poverty

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction, general information about the course, explanation of the concepts in general terms, evaluation of the importance of the course in the learning plan.
2 General evaluation of the lesson and introduction to main concepts
3 Poverty, absolute poverty, rotative poverty, deprivation
4 The concept of urban and rural poverty and the culture of poverty
5 Urban poverty in the "I" and the "other" phenomenon
6 The process of capitalist accumulation and reproduction of urban poverty
7 Impact of migration to poverty production
8 International reports on the problem of poverty and housing8
9 International reports on the problem of poverty and employment
10 International reports on the problem of urban poverty and education
11 International reports on the problem of urban poverty, and social security
12 International reports on the problem of urban poverty and urban security
13 Evaluation of poverty prevention strategies of international organizations
14 Poverty prevention policies at the national level
15 General evaluation and reminder, reviewing the degree of achievement of the learning outcomes of the course by making a situation analysis of the period.

Recomended or Required Reading

Harvey David, Sosyal Adalet ve Şehir, Metis Yayıncılık, 2003, Istanbul.

Işık, Oğuz; Pınarcıoğlu, M. Melih, Nöbetleşe Yoksulluk Gecekondulaşma ve Kent Yoksulları: Sultanbeyli Örneği, Iletişim Yay. 2. Baskı, 2002, Istanbul

Açıkalın, Neriman Çalışan Kent Yoksulları- Istanbul ve Gaziantep Örnekleri , Yoksulluk I. Cilt,, 1.Baskı, 2003, Istanbul

Ocak, Ersan Yoksulun Evi , Yoksulluk Halleri-Türkiye de Kent Yoksulluğunun Toplumsal Görünümleri, Demokrasi Kitaplığı Yayınevi, Birinci Basım, 2002, Istanbul

ODTÜ Kentsel Politika Planlaması ve Yerel Yönetimler ABD, Kentsel Yoksulluk ve Geçinme Stratejileri-Ankara Örneği, ODTÜ Yay., 2000, Ankara

Sezgin, Feyza Yoksulluk ve Mimari , Yoksulluk II.Cilt,, Bilge Yayınları, 1. Baskı, 2003, Istanbul

TESEV, Yoksulluğu Önleme Stratejileri-Sivil Toplum Kuruluşları Diyoloğu, Boyut Kitapları, Istanbul

Toprak Zerrin, Kent Yönetimi ve Politikası, 2008, Izmir.

Türkiye Istatistik Kurumu, Yoksulluk Çalışması Sonuçları, www.tuik.gov.tr

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

To remind the topics of the previous lesson for 15 minutes.
To give a general overview on the topic of the current week.
To give a lecture accompanied by a presentation prepared using the materials provided by the basic course book and other resources.
To make control-oriented brainstorming practices during some weeks.
To support the course topics with sample event examinations.
To analyze the given case studies.
To internalize the knowledge of students through homework applications.

Assessment Methods

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


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

guray.yontar@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 2 28
Preparation for midterm exam 1 20 20
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Preparing assignments 1 30 30
Preparing presentations 1 6 6
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 150

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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