| Language of instruction: |
English |
| Type of course: |
Non-Departmental Elective |
| Course Level: |
Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
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| Mode of Delivery: |
Hybrid
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| Course Coordinator : |
Assoc. Prof. ESRA ALBAYRAKOĞLU |
| Recommended Optional Program Components: |
None |
| Course Objectives: |
Objective of this course is to provide theoretical basis, rules, and aspects of regional policy and regional development in EU countries. The course will get students familiar with the idea of Euro-pean Union regional policy and its evolution, institutions, mechanism, and financing. Essential part of the course will be focusing on contemporary problems of EU regional policy, regional development in selected countries, differences and priorities. The course will particularly analyze regional development processes and offer students a variety of ‘good practices’. Case study analysis will be an important component of the course. |
| Week |
Subject |
Related Preparation |
| 1) |
Introduction |
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| 2) |
Historical Evolution of European Integration |
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| 3) |
Institutions of the EU and the management of the EU budget |
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| 4) |
The EU regional policy: An Overview |
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| 5) |
Common Agricultural Policy and the emergence of rural development paradigm |
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| 6) |
Emergence of rural development paradigm and NUTS methodology |
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| 7) |
Implementation of the EU Regional Policy: Types of funds |
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| 8) |
Mind-mapping presentations |
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| 9) |
Midterm |
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| 10) |
Impact of Economic Crisis on European Regions and Future Challenges |
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| 11) |
Enlargement and Regional Development in Central and Eastern European Countries |
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| 12) |
Case Studies: Mezzogiorno (Italy) and Catalonia (Spain) |
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| 13) |
Student Presentations (Pecha Kucha) |
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| 14) |
General Evaluation |
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Program Outcomes |
Level of Contribution |
| 1) |
Build up a body of knowledge in mathematics and statistics, to use them, to understand how the mechanism of economy –both at micro and macro levels – works. |
3 |
| 2) |
Understand the common as well as distinctive characters of the markets, industries, market regulations and policies. |
2 |
| 3) |
Develop an awareness of different approaches to the economic events and why and how those approaches have been formed through the Economic History and understand the differences among those approaches by noticing at what extent they could explain the economic events. |
1 |
| 4) |
Analyze the interventions of politics to the economics and vice versa. |
3 |
| 5) |
Apply the economic analysis to everyday economic problems and evaluate the policy proposals for those problems by comparing opposite approaches. |
2 |
| 6) |
Understand current and new economic events and how the new approaches to the economics are formed and evaluating. |
2 |
| 7) |
Develop the communicative skills in order to explain the specific economic issues/events written, spoken and graphical form. |
3 |
| 8) |
Know how to formulate the economics problems and issues and define the solutions in a well-formed written form, which includes the hypothesis, literature, methodology and results / empirical evidence. |
2 |
| 9) |
Demonstrate the quantitative and qualitative capabilities and provide evidence for the hypotheses and economic arguments. |
2 |
| 10) |
Understand the information and changes related to the economy by using a foreign language and communicate with colleagues. |
3 |
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