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Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS KMY 5058 ADMINISTRATION AND POLITICS IN LOCAL ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Public Administration

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR ATILLA GÖKTÜRK

Offered to

Public Administration

Course Objective

It is aimed students to analyze the suggestionsof urbanization policies for solving the urban problems and to associate them with their own localities

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Being able to analyze the outlooks of the different political systemsfor theurban problems and their suggestions for solutions. 2   Being able to evaluate comparatively themeans which are strengtheningthe co-existence experience of the different groups that make up the city 3   Being able to analyze the relationships of local government, civil society and political participationin term of local democracyby interpreting 4   Being able to explainthe relationship betweenglobalization, urban restructuring and spatial decomposition 5   Being able to discuss the functionality of the means for their solution

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description 1 The evaluation related with course content, schedule, and suggested resources 2 The relationship of local and politics 3 The social and economic base of local politics 4 Local social movement 5 Local governments and urban politics 6 The voluntary organizations in Turkey 7 Midterm Exam 8 The voluntary organizations in Turkey and the participation to government 9 The structural reasons of poverty 10 The opinions connecting poverty to the cultural and subjective reasons 11 The means of struggling with poverty at local level 12 Children working on the streets / the problems related withthe handicapped 13 Globalization and the restructuring of urban space 14 Social exclusion/urban dissociation

Recomended or Required Reading

Ö. AKBULUT, Siyaset ve Yönetim Ilişkisi: Kurumsal ve Eleştirel Bir Yaklaşım, TODAIE Yayınları, Ankara: 2005. Zgymunt BAUMAN, Çalışma Tüketicilik ve Yeni Yoksullar, Sarmal Yayınevi, Istanbul: 1999. D. BEHAR, and T. ISLAM, Istanbul da Soylulaştırma : Eski Kentin Yeni Sahipleri, Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları, Istanbul:2006. M. DAVIS, Gecekondu Gezegeni, Metis Yayınevi, Istanbul: 2007. B. DURU ve A. ALKAN, 20. Yüzyıl Kenti, 1.Baskı, Imge Yayınevi, Ankara: 2002.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lectures

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA 1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM 2 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE 3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + FCG* 0.60 4 RST RESIT 5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST* 0.60

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)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours) Lectures 14 3 42 Preparation for final exam 1 10 10 Preparation for final exam 1 14 14 Preparing assignments 1 10 10 Preparing presentations 1 10 10 Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 2 28 Midterm 1 2 2 Midterm 1 2 2 TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 118

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LO PO.1 PO.2 PO.3 PO.4 PO.5 PO.6 PO.7 PO.8 LO.1 4 LO.2 2 5 LO.3 4 5 3 5 LO.4 5 4 LO.5 3 4 5 5