COURSE UNIT TITLE

: RURAL AREAS, AGRICULTURE PROBLEM AND CAPITALISM

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
PLN 5063 RURAL AREAS, AGRICULTURE PROBLEM AND CAPITALISM ELECTIVE 2 0 0 4

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASISTANT PROFESSOR NERIMAN YÖRÜR

Offered to

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

Course Objective

Contents of this course covers; the ability to learn agriculture problem, capitalism, small peasant holdings in Turkish agriculture, large land holdings, land rent and land reform, to argue the relationship between capitalism and agricultural-rural areas with state-village-agriculture-capital relations and to evaluate about the future of rural areas within neoliberal globalization process.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Vill be able to explain agricultural problem, capitalism and small peasantry.
2   Will be able to recognize the relationship of state-capitalism-village-capital.
3   Will be able to interpret the future of rural areas in the world within neoliberal globalization process.
4   Will be able to reveal new peasantry fact.
5   Will be able to evaluate new rural areas paradigms.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Conceptual definitions: rural areas, agricultural problem and capitalism
2 Small peasant holdings, large land holdings, inequalities in Turkish Agriculture.
3 The problems of land reform in Turkey.
4 Capitalism, agriculture and land rent.
5 Capitalism and small family farming.
6 State-village-agriculture-capital relations.
7 Capitalist agricultural policies in Turkey.
8 Mid-term Examination
9 Introduction of capitalism to rural areas and capitalist transformations in agriculture.
10 Neoliberal globalization and world agriculture.
11 The persistence of small peasantry and capitalism.
12 Industrial agriculture, relationship of production and shape of production.
13 New peasantry and future of rural areas in the world.
14 Presentations of assignments and discussions.

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Bernstein, H. (2010). Tarımsal Değişimin Sınıfsal Dinamikleri. (Çeviren: Oya Köymen), Yordam Kitap Yayınları, Istanbul.
2. Boratav, K. (1980). Tarımsal Yapılar ve Kapitalizm. A. Ü. Siyasal Bilgiler Fakültesi, Ankara.
3. Erdost, M. I. (1988). Kapitalizm ve Tarım. Onur Yayınları, Ankara.
4. Köymen, O. (2008). Kapitalizm ve Köylülük, Ağalar, Üretenler, Patronlar. Yordam Kitap Yayınları, Istanbul.
5. Wallerstein, I. (2004). Modern Dünya Sistemi, Kapitalist Tarım ve 16. Yüzyılda Avrupa Dünya-Ekonomisinin Kökenleri. (Çeviri: Latif Boyacı), Bakış Yayınları, Istanbul.
6. Yörür, N. (2009). 1980 Sonrası Tarım Politikalarının Kırsal Alandaki Yapısal Dönüşüm Üzerine Etkileri: Aydın Dalama Örneği, DEÜ Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Yayınlanmamış Doktora Tezi, Izmir.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

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

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.50 + ASG * 0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Defining (Knowledge), Distunguishing (Comprehensive) and Implicating (Application) will be measured by Midterm Examination. Discussing (Analysis) and Choosing (Analysis) will be measured by Homework.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

neriman.yorur@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Tuesday, Hours: 14.00-16.00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 1 15 15
Preparing presentations 1 10 10
Preparation for midterm exam 1 15 15
Preparing assignments 1 20 20
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 88

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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