Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University Course Catalogue

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FACULTY OF ECONOMICS & ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCES / KMY 346 - PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Code: KMY 346 Course Title: URBAN LOCAL SERVICES Theoretical+Practice: 3+0 ECTS: 4
Year/Semester of Study 3 / Spring Semester
Level of Course 1st Cycle Degree Programme
Type of Course Optional
Department PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
Pre-requisities and Co-requisites None
Mode of Delivery Face to Face
Teaching Period 14 Weeks
Name of Lecturer MEHMET ÖZEL (mehmetozel@nevsehir.edu.tr)
Name of Lecturer(s)
Language of Instruction Turkish
Work Placement(s) None
Objectives of the Course
The aim of this course is to teach basic information about public service and examine examples of services in urban and local level.

Learning Outcomes PO MME
The students who succeeded in this course:
LO-1 Can identify and describe urban local services. PO-1 Upon successful completion of the program students: Learn essential theoretical and empirical concepts of the discipline’s main branches, Political Science, Administration Science, Urbanization and Environmental Problems and Legal Sciences and gain a perspective which is appropriate for creating solutions in this scope;
Examination
LO-2 Can develop examples of procedures for the fulfillment of services. PO-1 Upon successful completion of the program students: Learn essential theoretical and empirical concepts of the discipline’s main branches, Political Science, Administration Science, Urbanization and Environmental Problems and Legal Sciences and gain a perspective which is appropriate for creating solutions in this scope;
Examination
LO-3 Can analyse how services are organized and which employees provide services. PO-1 Upon successful completion of the program students: Learn essential theoretical and empirical concepts of the discipline’s main branches, Political Science, Administration Science, Urbanization and Environmental Problems and Legal Sciences and gain a perspective which is appropriate for creating solutions in this scope;
PO-2 Identify and compare concrete models of international and national public administration, determine problems and develop solution-oriented models;
Examination
LO-4 Can discuss how service delivery could be enhanced. PO-1 Upon successful completion of the program students: Learn essential theoretical and empirical concepts of the discipline’s main branches, Political Science, Administration Science, Urbanization and Environmental Problems and Legal Sciences and gain a perspective which is appropriate for creating solutions in this scope;
PO-2 Identify and compare concrete models of international and national public administration, determine problems and develop solution-oriented models;
Examination
PO: Programme Outcomes
MME:Method of measurement & Evaluation

Course Contents
Central and local governments services such as zoning, water and sewerage, transportation, infrastructure, environmental health, sanitation, solid waste, transportation, culture, arts, social services, sport. Problems and procedure of the fulfillment of these services.
Weekly Course Content
Week Subject Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
1 Public Service Lecture
2 Population-Space-Service Relationship Lecture
3 Urban Local Services at Different Systems and States-Local Authorities and Duties. Lecture
4 Public Service in our Country-Historical Analysis: From Public Concessions to Public Private Partnership Lecture
5 Local Authorities and Responsibilities in our Country Lecture
6 Infrastructure Services: Organization, Services, Personnel, Financial Resource Lecture
7 Infrastructure Services: Application Examples, KÖYDES-BELDES Projects Lecture
8 mid-term exam
9 Social Services: Organization, Services, Personnel, Financial Resource Lecture
10 Social Services: Application Examples Lecture
11 Ecological Services: Organization, Services, Personnel, Financial Resource Lecture
12 Ecological Services: Application Examples Lecture
13 Other Services Lecture
14 Services and Citizen Participation Lecture
15 Services and Problems Lecture
16 final exam
Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading
1 Ruşen Keleş, Yerinden Yönetim ve Siyaset, Cem Yayınevi, İstanbul, 2000.
2 Ömer Torlak, Belediyelerde Hizmet Yönetimi ve Pazarlama, Seçkin Yayıncılık, Ankara, 1999.
3 Feyzan Beler, Yerel Kentsel Hizmetlerin Dağıtımında Ekonomik Verimlilik: Ankara Örnek Alan Çalışması, Türkiye Sosyal Ekonomik Siyasal Araştırmalar Vakfı Yayını, İstanbul, 1990.
4 Yerel Yönetimler ve Sosyal Hizmetler-Sami Kalaycı
5 Türkiye'de Sosyal Belediyecilik-Esin Şengün-Çiğdem Akman
Required Course instruments and materials
Projection, essays.

Assessment Methods
Type of Assessment Week Hours Weight(%)
mid-term exam 8 1 40
Other assessment methods
1.Oral Examination
2.Quiz
3.Laboratory exam
4.Presentation
5.Report
6.Workshop
7.Performance Project
8.Term Paper
9.Project
final exam 16 1 60

Student Work Load
Type of Work Weekly Hours Number of Weeks Work Load
Weekly Course Hours (Theoretical+Practice) 3 14 42
Outside Class
       a) Reading 2 14 28
       b) Search in internet/Library 2 14 28
       c) Performance Project 0
       d) Prepare a workshop/Presentation/Report 0
       e) Term paper/Project 0
Oral Examination 0
Quiz 0
Laboratory exam 0
Own study for mid-term exam 9 1 9
mid-term exam 1 1 1
Own study for final exam 9 1 9
final exam 1 1 1
0
0
Total work load; 118