COURSE UNIT TITLE

: PLANNING POLICY

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
PLN 4443 PLANNING POLICY ELECTIVE 2 0 0 3

Offered By

City and Regional Planning

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASISTANT PROFESSOR TOLGA ÇILINGIR

Offered to

City and Regional Planning

Course Objective

This course aims at defining policy, presenting the theories of urban politics with the circumstances under which they have developed, getting to comprehend the relations between policy and politics, interpreting the spatial develeopment policy followed in Turkey as a case of practice, and analysing the relationships between urban politics and planning policy.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   At the end of this course, students, will be able to define policy (Knowledge),
2   will be able to list the theories of urban politics historically (Knowledge),
3   will be able to describe the relations between politics and policy (Comprehension),
4   will be able to interprete the policies followed in Turkey (Application),
5   will be able to relate urban politics to planning policies (Analysis).

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Urban Politics: conceptual explanations Reading list will be given in this week.
2 Planning Policies: conceptual explanations
3 Policy Studies: concepts and problems
4 Policy Analysis: styles and methods
5 Policy and Planning: evaluation, monitoring, prediction
6 Midterm Examination
7 Theories of Urban Politics Homework topics will be handed out in this week.
8 Relationships Between Urban Politics and Policy
9 Policies Relating to Collective Means of Consumption
10 Urban Social Movements
11 Homework/Submission/Presentation Students will be required to submit their homeworks and present their studies briefly to each other in this week.
12 Urbanization Policies in Turkey
13 Planning Policies in Turkey
14 Redesigning The Relationships Between Planning Policies and Urban Politics
15 Final Examination
16

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbooks:
Bracken, I. (2007), Urban Planning Methods: research and policy analysis, Routledge, London. (DEÜ Kütüphane; HT166 .B73 2007)
Strom, A. And Mollenkopf, J.H. (Eds) (2007), The Urban Politics Reader, Routledge, London. (DEÜ Kütüphane; JS78 .U73 2007)

Supplemantary Book:
Davies, J.S and Imbroscio, D.L. (Eds.), (2009), Theories of Urban Politics, Sage, London.
Materials:
Other readings related to the course

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

This course will be given through lectures. Students will learn topics by attending and listening the lectures. Homeworks will be given to students in 7th Week and they will be asked to prepare their homeworks on the subjects given to them.

Assessment Methods

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


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Defining and Listing (Knowledge) will be measured by Midterm Examination
Describing (Comprehension) and Interpreting (Application) will be measured by Homework
Relating (Analysis) will be measured by Final Examination.

Assessment Criteria

Defining and Listing (Knowledge) will be measured by Midterm Examination
Describing (Comprehension) and Interpreting (Application) will be measured by Homework
Relating (Analysis) will be measured by Final Examination.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

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

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

sezai.goksu@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Tuesday 10.30-12.00; Wednesday 15.00-17.00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 2 24
Presenting Homework 1 2 2
Preparation for midterm exam 1 15 15
Preparation for final exam 1 15 15
Preparing Individual Assignments 1 15 15
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 75

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15PO.16PO.17
LO.11
LO.21
LO.31
LO.41
LO.51