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Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 |
Course Code | Course Name | Semester | Theoretical | Practical | Credit | ECTS |
SOC2001 | Urbanization | Spring | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
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Language of instruction: | English |
Type of course: | Non-Departmental Elective |
Course Level: | Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle) |
Mode of Delivery: | Hybrid |
Course Coordinator : | Assoc. Prof. ULAŞ SUNATA ÖZDEMİR |
Course Lecturer(s): |
Assoc. Prof. ULAŞ SUNATA ÖZDEMİR |
Recommended Optional Program Components: | "." |
Course Objectives: | This course aims to teach students how to analyze the city where they live through theoretical readings and field work in urban sociology. |
The students who have succeeded in this course; 1) Identify the main theories and theorists in urban sociology 2) Appraise several case-studies applying these theories to the particular context of Istanbul 3) Develop their academic reading skills 4) Apply two small non-participant observation research projects 5) Apply two small participant observation research projects 6) Apply actively their sociological imagination to analyzing urban spaces. |
This class explores major themes in urban sociology and urban theory from their inception at the beginning of the 20th century until today. While our theoretical readings will deal with more general questions facing metropolises around the world, our empirical examples will stem from research by sociologists and geographers often focused on the city of Istanbul. Students will be asked to do four individual practical observation exercises in the city in application of the weekly readings. |
Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
1) | Introduction to the course | Mumford, "What is a City?" (1938) |
2) | The Industrial City | Engels, "The condition of the working class in England - selection" (1845) |
3) | Observing the City | De Certeau, “Walking in the city”(1984) & Scarboro on "Everyday life encounters in Istanbul" (2011) |
4) | The first urban sociologists | Simmel “The Metropolis and Mental Life” (1903) |
5) | Recent urban theorists | Henri Lefebvre “The right to the city” (1968) |
6) | Center and Periphery / Public and Private spaces | Aysegul Baykana and Tali Hatukab: "Politics and culture in the making of public space: Taksim Square, 1 May 1977, Istanbul" (2010) |
7) | Project discussions | |
8) | Course review | |
9) | Embodied Spaces / Gender in the city | Tonkiss: "Embodied Spaces: Gender, Sexuality and the City" (2005) & Dağtaş: "Bodily transgression" (2009) |
10) | Disabilities in the city | Gleeson "Geographies of Disability" (1999) |
11) | The city and culture / The Economy of culture | Zukin: "Whose culture? Whose city?" (1995) |
12) | Urban Culture in Istanbul | Ozgur "Arabesk Music in Turkey in the 1990s and Changes in National Demography, Politics, and Identity" (2006) |
13) | Minorities & Inequalities in the city: Representation and Difference | Mills: "Boundaries of the nation in the space of the urban: landscape and social memory in Istanbul" (2006) & Ayata: "Migrants and Changing Urban Periphery" (2008) |
14) | The city and its natural environment | Bezmez: "The politics of urban Waterfront Regeneration: The case of Haliç Istanbul" (2009) |
Course Notes / Textbooks: | A special course reader containing all the readings plus additional optional texts will be given weekly |
References: | Mumford: "What is a City?" (1938) Engels: "The condition of the working class in England - selection" (1845) De Certeau: “Walking in the city”(1984) & Scarboro on "Everyday life encounters in Istanbul" (2011) Simmel: “The Metropolis and Mental Life” (1903) Henri Lefebvre: “The right to the city” (1968) Aysegul Baykana and Tali Hatukab: "Politics and culture in the making of public space: Taksim Square, 1 May 1977, Istanbul" (2010) Tonkiss: "Embodied Spaces: Gender, Sexuality and the City" (2005) & Dağtaş: "Bodily transgression" (2009) Gleeson: "Geographies of Disability" (1999) Zukin: "Whose culture? Whose city?" (1995) Ozgur: "Arabesk Music in Turkey in the 1990s and Changes in National Demography, Politics, and Identity" (2006) Mills: "Boundaries of the nation in the space of the urban: landscape and social memory in Istanbul" (2006) & Ayata: "Migrants and Changing Urban Periphry" (2008) Bezmez: "The politics of urban Waterfront Regeneration: The case of Haliç Istanbul" (2009) Richard Sennett Marshall Berman |
Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
Attendance | 14 | % 15 |
Field Work | 1 | % 15 |
Homework Assignments | 1 | % 10 |
Presentation | 1 | % 20 |
Final | 1 | % 40 |
Total | % 100 | |
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 60 | |
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 40 | |
Total | % 100 |
Activities | Number of Activities | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
Course Hours | 14 | 3 | 42 |
Field Work | 1 | 20 | 20 |
Study Hours Out of Class | 14 | 2 | 28 |
Homework Assignments | 1 | 10 | 10 |
Paper Submission | 1 | 40 | 40 |
Total Workload | 140 |
No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Low | 3 Average | 4 High | 5 Highest |
Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
1) | Being familiar to the main concepts and methods of the social sciences and the fine arts devoted to understanding the world and the society | 4 |
2) | Having comprehensive knowledge regarding different media and branches of art | 3 |
3) | Knowing the historical background of audio-visual moving images in the world and in Turkey and keeping pace with the new developments in the area | 1 |
4) | Having a good command of the language and the aesthetics of audio-visual moving images in the world and in Turkey | 1 |
5) | Being able to create a narrative that could be used in a fiction or a non-fiction audio-visual moving image product | 2 |
6) | Being able to write a script ready to be shot | 2 |
7) | Having the skills to produce the photoboard of a script in hand and to shoot the film using the camera, the lights and other necessary equipment | |
8) | Being able to transfer the footage of a film to the digital medium, to edit and do other post-production operations | |
9) | Being able to create a documentary audio visual moving image from the preliminary sketch stage to shooting, editing and post-production stages | |
10) | Being able to produce an audio visual moving image for television and audio products for radio from preliminary stages through shooting and editing to the post-production stage | |
11) | Being culturally and theoretically equipped to make sense of an audio-visual moving image, to approach it critically with regard to its language and narration and being able to express his/her approach in black and white | 3 |
12) | Having ethical values and a sense of social responsibility | 5 |