GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION
LOCAL AUTHORİTİES AND ENVİRONMENT EFFECTS/5731325
Course Title: LOCAL AUTHORİTİES AND ENVİRONMENT EFFECTS
Credits 3 ECTS 7.5
Course Semester 1 Type of The Course Elective
COURSE INFORMATION
 -- (CATALOG CONTENT)
 -- (TEXTBOOK)
 -- (SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTBOOK)
 -- (PREREQUISITES AND CO-REQUISITES)
 -- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION
  Turkish
 -- COURSE OBJECTIVES
 -- COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES
To increase the awareness of students on environmental pollution originated from unplanned urbanisation.
Improvement of alternative prevention measures for local authorities
The bottlenecks faced by local authotities during the implementation of environmental responsibilities and commitments,

 -- MODE OF DELIVERY
  Face to face training
 --WEEKLY SCHEDULE
1. Week  Environmental problems and their sources Urbanisation and environmental problems caused by urbanisation
2. Week  Urban management, local authorities
3. Week  Types of local authorities: Villages, municipalities and province managements
4. Week  Central management vs local management
5. Week  Responsibilities of municipalities on environmental management in a city Responsibilities of provincial authorities on environmental management in
6. Week  Definition of “governance and its effectiveness on the prevention of environmental problems?
7. Week  Importance of “public participation” and “transperency” on urban management
8. Week  What is e-government and m-government? Their impacts on environmental management
9. Week  Authorisation of Municipalities for “Planning”
10. Week  MT
11. Week  The bottlenecks faced by local authotities during the implementation of environmental responsibilities and commitments
12. Week  Sustainable cities, green cities
13. Week  Best practices from Turkey to Sustainable Cities
14. Week  Best practices from world to Sustainable Cities
15. Week  FINAL
16. Week  -
 -- TEACHING and LEARNING METHODS
 -- ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
 
Quantity
Total Weighting (%)
 Midterm Exams
1
30
 Assignment
1
20
 Application
0
0
 Projects
0
0
 Practice
0
0
 Quiz
0
0
 Percent of In-term Studies  
50
 Percentage of Final Exam to Total Score  
50
 -- WORKLOAD
 Activity  Total Number of Weeks  Duration (weekly hour)  Total Period Work Load
 Weekly Theoretical Course Hours
14
3
42
 Weekly Tutorial Hours
0
0
0
 Reading Tasks
0
0
0
 Searching in Internet and Library
12
2
24
 Material Design and Implementation
10
4
40
 Report Preparing
3
4
12
 Preparing a Presentation
10
4
40
 Presentation
10
1
10
 Midterm Exam and Preperation for Midterm Exam
2
2
4
 Final Exam and Preperation for Final Exam
2
2
4
 Other (should be emphasized)
6
2
12
 TOTAL WORKLOAD: 
188
 TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25: 
7.52
 Course Credit (ECTS): 
7.5
 -- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM
NO
PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES
1
2
3
4
5
1X
2X
3X
4X
5X
6X
7X
8X
9X
10X
11X
12X
13X
14X
15X
16X
17X
 -- NAME OF LECTURER(S)
   (Yrd. Doç.Dr. Gamze YÜCEL IŞILDAR)
 -- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)
   (http://websitem.gazi.edu.tr/site/akarakoc)
 -- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)
   (akarakoc@gazi.edu.tr , gkarakoc@yahoo.com)