COURSE UNIT TITLE

: SOCIAL POLICY IN PLANNING

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
PLN 5030 SOCIAL POLICY IN PLANNING 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

PROFESSOR EMINE IPEK ÖZBEK SÖNMEZ

Offered to

M.Sc. City and Regional Planning
City and Regional Planning (Non-Thesis)
City and Regional Planning

Course Objective

Poliy formulation is an obligatory side of planning, every implementation needs to be based on a policy framewok. For this reason, the course aims to discuss social policy which is an academic subject concerned with the study of social services, the welfare state, administrative pactice in social areas, social problems, issues relating to social disadvantage, and the range of collective social responses to these conditions.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Define social policy as a subject
2   Define different theoratical perspectives on social policy
3   Explain the critique on social policy
4   Analyse the social policies from the aspect of planning changing urban geography

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Theoratical perspectives on social policy
2 Social democratic perspectives on the welfare state
3 Neo-Liberalism and Social Policy
4 Feminist Critique of social policy, the social structure and the social inequality
5 Valuesin social policy; Individual and social well being
6 The welfare state: comparing welfare states, International aspects of social policy
7 Social need; need, poverty, social exclusion, the needs of children, needs of others
8 Social services: employment services, personal social services, education and social policy
9 Social administration: the provision of the welfare, the public services, service delivery
10 Social policy and services in EU and US
11 First presentation of the homework
12 Social policy and services in developing countries
13 Social policy and services in developing countries
14 Social policy and services in Turkey

Recomended or Required Reading

Lavalette M., Pratt A.,1997, Social Policy- Aconeptual and Theoratical Introduction, Sage Publication,
London
Introduction to Social Policy, Univesity of Dundee, UK, 2001
Byrne, D. 1999, Social Exclusion , Buckingham, Open University 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 PRS PRESENTATION
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE ASG * 0.50 + PRS * 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 10-00-12.00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparing assignments 1 90 90
Final (Final presentation of the homework) 1 2 2
Midterm (First presentation of the homework) 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 120

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

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