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FACULTY OF LETTERS & SCIENCE / COG 217 - GEOGRAPHY

Code: COG 217 Course Title: MIGRATION GEOGRAPHY Theoretical+Practice: 3+0 ECTS: 4
Year/Semester of Study 2 / Fall Semester
Level of Course 1st Cycle Degree Programme
Type of Course Optional
Department GEOGRAPHY
Pre-requisities and Co-requisites None
Mode of Delivery Face to Face
Teaching Period 14 Weeks
Name of Lecturer AHMET UYSAL (ahmetuysal@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 students; They are informed about immigration and current issues that differ depending on their causes and processes such as international migration, refugees, diaspora, retirement migration, and brain drain. It is also important to understand the rationale and usefulness of multidisciplinarity in migration studies and to understand the geography's approach to migration studies. Finally, it is aimed to have information about the causes, types, ways and consequences of migration movements at the international level, to be informed about the changing migration trends and types with globalization, and to be able to make analyzes and inferences about the changing population and migration strategies of countries.

Learning Outcomes PO MME
The students who succeeded in this course:
LO-1 . PO-1 Cografya biliminde kuramsal ve uygulamali bilgilere sahip olma
PO-2 Cografya biliminin temel terimlerini kavrama ve cografi terminolojiyi yerinde kullanabilme.
Examination
LO-2 . PO-3 Cografya bilimi kapsaminda mekani dogal ve beseri özellikleriyle tanima, mekanin kullanimindan kaynaklanan sorunlari tespit edebilme, çözüm önerisi sunabilme.
PO-6 Disiplinler arasindaki çalismalarin önemini kavrama, bilgi ve becerilerini diger disiplinlerle paylasabilme ve ortak projelerde degerlendirebilme.
Examination
LO-3 . PO-6 Disiplinler arasindaki çalismalarin önemini kavrama, bilgi ve becerilerini diger disiplinlerle paylasabilme ve ortak projelerde degerlendirebilme.
PO-7 Mekan ve mekani olusturan fiziki ve beseri unsurlar arasinda iliski kurabilme ve bu iliskileri yorumlayabilme becerisi
PO-13 Toplumsal sorumluluk ve mesleki etik bilinciyle yasadigi sosyal çevre için mesleki proje ve etkinlikler planlayabilme ve uygulayabilme.
Examination
PO: Programme Outcomes
MME:Method of measurement & Evaluation

Course Contents
.Definition of migration, its reasons and changing migration dynamics * Mapping of migration * Globalization-Migration relationship * Changing migration types and changing migration dynamics in the world with its socio-spatial dimension * International illegal migration and refugee problem * International Labor Migration in the context of migration theories * International Retired Immigration - Brain Drain, environmental refugees etc.
Weekly Course Content
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8 mid-term exam
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16 final exam
Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading
1 PRESTON H. S.- HEUVELINE P.- GUILLOT M, 2001, Demography-Mesasuring and Modelling Population Processes, Blackwell Publ., London
2 TÜMERTEKİN E.- ÖZGÜÇ N., 1998, Beşeri Coğrafya –İnsan Kültür- Mekan, Çantay Kitabevi, İstanbul
3 TOKSÖZ Gülay, 2007, Uluslararası Emek Göçü, Bilgi Üniv. Yayınları, İstanbul
4 MUTLUER Mustafa, 2001, Uluslararası Göçler ve Türkiye, Çantay Kitabevi, İstanbul
5 GÜRTAN Kenan, 1969, Demografik Analiz Yöntemleri, İ.Ü. Yay. 1479, İstanbul
6 MENDENHALL - OTT.,1990, Understanding Statistics, PS-KENT Publ., Boston. ÖZGÜR Murat, 2004, Nüfus Coğrafyası, Ankara
Required Course instruments and materials
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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 3 3 9
       b) Search in internet/Library 3 3 9
       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 6 3 18
mid-term exam 1 1 1
Own study for final exam 8 4 32
final exam 1 1 1
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Total work load; 112