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Bachelor	TR-NQF-HE: Level 6	QF-EHEA: First Cycle	EQF-LLL: Level 6

Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Code	Course Name	Semester	Theoretical	Practical	Credit	ECTS
SOC2001	Urbanization	Spring	3	0	3	6

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Basic information

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.

Learning Outcomes

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.

Course Content

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.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

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)

Sources

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

Evaluation System

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

ECTS / Workload Table

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

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

No Effect	1 Lowest	2 Low	3 Average	4 High	5 Highest

	Program Outcomes	Level of Contribution
1)	To be able to critically interpret and discuss the theories, the concepts, the traditions, and the developments in the history of thought which are fundamental for the field of new media, journalism and communication.
2)	To be able to attain written, oral and visual knowledge about technical equipment and software used in the process of news and the content production in new media, and to be able to acquire effective abilities to use them on a professional level.
3)	To be able to get information about the institutional agents and generally about the sector operating in the field of new media, journalism and communication, and to be able to critically evaluate them.
4)	To be able to comprehend the reactions of the readers, the listeners, the audiences and the users to the changing roles of media environments, and to be able to provide and circulate an original contents for them and to predict future trends.
5)	To be able to apprehend the basic theories, the concepts and the thoughts related to neighbouring fields of new media and journalism in a critical manner.
6)	To be able to grasp global and technological changes in the field of communication, and the relations due to with their effects on the local agents.
7)	To be able to develop skills on gathering necessary data by using scientific methods, analyzing and circulating them in order to produce content.
8)	To be able to develop acquired knowledge, skills and competence upon social aims by being legally and ethically responsible for a lifetime, and to be able to use them in order to provide social benefit.
9)	To be able to operate collaborative projects with national/international colleagues in the field of new media, journalism and communication.
10)	To be able to improve skills on creating works in various formats and which are qualified to be published on the prestigious national and international channels.