COURSE SYLLABUS

URBAN SOCIOLOGY

1	Course Title:	URBAN SOCIOLOGY
2	Course Code:	SSY2010
3	Type of Course:	Compulsory
4	Level of Course:	First Cycle
5	Year of Study:	2
6	Semester:	4
7	ECTS Credits Allocated:	4
8	Theoretical (hour/week):	2
9	Practice (hour/week) :	0
10	Laboratory (hour/week) :	0
11	Prerequisites:	None
12	Recommended optional programme components:	None
13	Language:	Turkish
14	Mode of Delivery:	Face to face
15	Course Coordinator:	Dr. Ögr. Üyesi ENES BATTAL KESKİN
16	Course Lecturers:
17	Contactinformation of the Course Coordinator:	Uludağ Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Sosyoloji Bölümü Tel:0224-295-50-81 E-posta:eneskeskin@uludag.edu.tr
18	Website:	http://sosyoloji.uludag.edu.tr/lisans/default.html.
19	Objective of the Course:	This course examines the idea of city through a maneuver aimed at reaching the core problem of urbanism: Is the city a reality or a mere site of intellectual representation? As we can allusively, metaphorically, and albeit crassly, put: Is urban the aleph? In other words, can we appropriate a city, as a site where everything comes together? Is the plethora of social -and hence sociological- categories entangled in the material, cultural, ideological, and economic reality of a city entail an explanatory power?
20	Contribution of the Course to Professional Development

Learning Outcomes:

1	Enables learning of the main conceptual framework of the subject area.;
2	Enables the application of conceptual framework of the subject area in the Turkish historical and social context.;
3	Develops a fundamental understanding of the relationships between the subject area and the wider sociological knowledge.;
4	Engenders a conceptualization of relevant social processes that helps shape the subject area.;
5	Develops a comparative perspective between the social processes prevalent in the subject area and its practical applications.;
6	Engenders a thorough knowledge of the fundamental literature of the subject area.;

22	Course Content:

Week	Theoretical	Practical
1	The birth of urban civilizations: Pre-modernity and the City
2	The Town-Country Conflict: Labor, Immigration and Industrialization
3	Industrialization and urban communities
4	Urbanism as a way of life: the city as the beacon of capitalist development
5	The Chicago School: Urban geography, urban economy, and urban ecology
6	The "Urban" as Ideology: Urbanism and Urbanity
7	Midterm Exam+Manuel Castells and his ideas on urban space as the site of collective consumption
8	David Harvey and historico-geographical urbanism: the dialectics of history and space
9	The dialectics of society and space
10	Walter Benjamin: The dialectics of memory and space
11	The Society of Spectacle
12	The Urban Revolution: Henri Lefebvre
13	Postmodern Urbanism
14	General Assessment

23	Textbooks, References and/or Other Materials:	Isik, O., and M. M. Pinarcioglu. Nobetlese Yoksulluk: Gecekondulasma ve Kent Yoksullari: Sultanbeyli Ornegi, 2001. Henri Pirenne; Ortaçağ Kentleri, İslam Şehri; R.B.Serjeant, Hüseyin Bal; Kent Sosyolojisi, Köksal Alver(Ed.); Kent Sosyolojisi, Korkut Tuna; Toplumu Açıklama Girişimi Olarak Şehir Teorileri, Mübeccel B.Kıray; Ereğli: Ağır Sanayiden Önce Bir Sahil Kasabası, Rana A.Aslanoğlu; Kent Kimlik Küreselleşme, Sema Erder; İstanbul’a Bir Kent Kondu Ümraniye.
24	Assesment

TERM LEARNING ACTIVITIES	NUMBER	PERCENT
Midterm Exam	1	40
Quiz	0	0
Homeworks, Performances	0	0
Final Exam	1	60
Total	2	100
Contribution of Term (Year) Learning Activities to Success Grade		40
Contribution of Final Exam to Success Grade		60
Total		100
Measurement and Evaluation Techniques Used in the Course
Information

ECTS / WORK LOAD TABLE

CONTRIBUTION OF LEARNING OUTCOMES TO PROGRAMME QUALIFICATIONS

LO: Learning Objectives

PQ: Program Qualifications

Contribution Level:

1 Very Low

2 Low

3 Medium

4 High

5 Very High