ADM4180 URBAN POLITICS
| Course Code: | 3104180 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 6.0 |
| Department: | Political Science and Public Adm. |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Prof.Dr. HÜSEYİN TARIK ŞENGÜL |
| Offered Semester: | Fall Semesters. |
Course Objectives
To introduce the students to the political dimensions of urban processes
To inform the students on various paradigms of urban politics.
To provide the students with a methodology to deal with the complex relationship between theories and empirical cases in urban domain.
Course Content
This course first introduces urban politics, and then discusses community power structure in the Turkish urban context. Next, issues like decision-making at local level, the pertaining legal framework, the main actors involved in the process, the formal and informal mechanisms and structures, political decentralization, social clusters and groups, the interaction between parochial and urban politics, urban social movements and their motives, obstacles to urban integration. The course finally discusses central responses to the dynamics of urban politics.
Course Learning Outcomes
To develop students analytical skills regarding the analysis of urban issues.
To have students analyze and explore the link between urban problems and political processes.
To develop students analytical capacity to relate the urban theories the analysis of concrete urban issues.
Program Outcomes Matrix
| Level of Contribution | |||||
| # | Program Outcomes | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1 | Ability to reach the information they need in their daily lives, and to interpret it | ✔ | |||
| 2 | Being in command of the basic concepts of law | ✔ | |||
| 3 | Understanding the political, economical, and social transformations that occur in a wide range of areas including local and international levels | ✔ | |||
| 4 | Defining and solving problems encountered in political, social, and economic life | ✔ | |||
| 5 | Being conscious, effective and rational citizens who can comprehend the transformations taking place in Turkey and in the world today | ✔ | |||
| 6 | Being professionals who can operate as productive participants in any public organization | ✔ | |||
| 7 | Having the knowledge about how public organizations function and how their decision making processes and mechanisms work | ✔ | |||
| 8 | Developing original solutions to the problems faced in relation to their own area of interest | ✔ | |||
| 9 | Critical thinking ability | ✔ | |||
| 10 | Being in command of the interdisciplinary approaches | ✔ | |||
0: No Contribution 1: Little Contribution 2: Partial Contribution 3: Full Contribution