CRP499 SEMINAR IN SELECTED URBAN POLITICAL ISSUES
| Course Code: | 1210499 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 5.0 |
| Department: | City and Regional Planning |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Prof.Dr. HÜSEYİN ÇAĞATAY KESKİNOK |
| Offered Semester: | Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
Seminar course around the contemporary topics in urban political context. Aim of the course is tonconcentrate student’s previous knowledge on different urban issues, to re-examine and evaluate the current urban problems of our cities by using the frameworks developed by urban political theories and to test the relevance and the validity of different paradigms in this context. Students are supposed to define and problematize the urban issues from policy and politics point of view.
Course Content
Seminar course around the contemporary topics in urban political context. The aim of the course is to concentrate students` previous theoretical knowledge on different urban issues; to reexamine and evaluate the current urban problems of our cities by using the frameworks developed by those theories; to test the relevance and the validity of different paradigms in this context. Major areas of concern are politics of urban spatial structuration, urban service provision, land ownership, social movements and the politics of urban planning issues.
Course Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, the students will have ability to problematize the concrete urban issues around built environment from both policy and politics point of view. And ability to apply their previous knowledge on different urban issues, to re-examine and evaluate the current urban problems by using the frameworks developed by urban political theories.
Program Outcomes Matrix
| Level of Contribution | |||||
| # | Program Outcomes | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1 | Knowledge and internalization of the concepts of social responsibility and public interest | ✔ | |||
| 2 | Giving priority to these concepts in planning and practice | ✔ | |||
| 3 | Commitment to professional ethics and values | ✔ | |||
| 4 | Capacity to independently carry out individual tasks and studies | ✔ | |||
| 5 | Ability to work as a responsible team member as well as a leader in team works | ✔ | |||
| 6 | Professional competency to carry out plans and projects with the utmost quality | ✔ | |||
| 7 | In the fields of planning and design: * Knowledge of planning theories * Ability to integrate theory and practice * Competency in problem definition, critical approach, and usage of analysis methods and techniques * Skills of inter-disciplinary and multi-dimensional thinking, analysis, synthesis, implementation, and development of alternative plans and design solutions | ✔ | |||
| 8 | In both Turkish and English: * Knowledge of professional terminology * Ability to carry out and present original studies * Skills of expressing oneself | ✔ | |||
| 9 | Lifelong learning skills and attributes | ✔ | |||
| 10 | Competency in process design and management | ✔ | |||
0: No Contribution 1: Little Contribution 2: Partial Contribution 3: Full Contribution