COURSE UNIT TITLE

: ANALYSIS OF LOCAL POLICY

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
KMY 6049 ANALYSIS OF LOCAL POLICY ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Public Administration

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR ATILLA GÖKTÜRK

Offered to

Public Administration

Course Objective

To evaluate the concept of city in context with historical and social developments and to gain the ability of interpreting these concepts

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Being able to explain local problems of developing countries.
2   Being able to examine the economic and social structure on local level
3   Being able to examine the process of policiy making on local level
4   Being able to evaluate the determinants wellfare share on local level
5   Being able to evaluate the determinants wellfare share on local level

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The definition and importance of the concept of localisation
2 The changes on the concept of localisation.
3 The relation between immigration and local
4 The relation between industrilisation and local
5 Population mobilisation in under-developed countries
6 Population mobilisation in under-developed countries
7 midterm exams
8 midterm exams
9 Legal and administrational arrangements on local administration
10 The position of local administration on economic and social systems
11 Arrangements and applications on local administrations
12 Housing problem
13 Urban preservation
14 evalation

Recomended or Required Reading

Saskia SASSEN, The Global City, Princeton University Press, New York London Tokyo: 2001.
Manuel CASTELLS, End Of Millenium, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford: 1998.
Nick OATLEY(Editör), Cities, Economic Competition and Urban Policy, Paul Chapman Publishing, London: 1998.
Jean Marie HURRIOT and Jacques-François THISSE(Editör), Economics of Cities, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge: 2000.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Theoretical background will be prepared by the lecturer. It is compulsary for students to analyse and present a related scientifique paper in a foreign language.

Assessment Methods

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

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 2 28
Preparation for midterm exam 1 25 25
Preparation for final exam 1 28 28
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 3 42
Preparing assignments 1 20 20
Preparing presentations 1 10 10
Midterm 1 1 1
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 156

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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