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Year/Semester of Study | 2 / Spring Semester | ||||
Level of Course | 1st Cycle Degree Programme | ||||
Type of Course | Compulsory | ||||
Department | SOCIAL STUDIES TEACHING | ||||
Pre-requisities and Co-requisites | None | ||||
Mode of Delivery | Face to Face | ||||
Teaching Period | 14 Weeks | ||||
Name of Lecturer | ALİ MEYDAN (meydan@nevsehir.edu.tr) | ||||
Name of Lecturer(s) | |||||
Language of Instruction | Turkish | ||||
Work Placement(s) | None | ||||
Objectives of the Course | |||||
To comprehend the Turkey's population properties of Turkey, to discuss economical problems concerned with the growth and settlement of population, to contact relation between the settlement areas and the type of settlements, to know agriculture, husbandry and other economical activities, to learn the problems and to discuss solving them. |
Learning Outcomes | PO | MME | |
The students who succeeded in this course: | |||
LO-1 | Evaluates the effect of geographical features on economic activities. |
PO-2 Uses information and information resources related to the field effectively. PO-8 Participates in professional and social projects and activities, plans out and implements projects and activities for the social environment in which he or she lives, with a sense of social responsibility. PO-9 Uses knowledge and skills, which he or she evaluates with a critical approach, to solve the problems he or she encounters in the his or her field and social life as an effective citizen who makes well reasoned decisions. PO-22 Becomes a qualified instructor; joins the society as a well being social studies teacher, open to innovations, change and development, ready for the world of tomorrow. |
Examination |
LO-2 | Evaluates the effect of geographical features on population distribution. |
PO-2 Uses information and information resources related to the field effectively. PO-6 Makes planning, arrangement and evaluation in accordance with educational objectives and student needs in the light of social sciences and findings, theory and practice information related to social studies education produced by social sciences. PO-10 Has knowledge of the nature, source, limits, accuracy, reliability and validity of information. |
Examination |
PO: Programme Outcomes MME:Method of measurement & Evaluation |
Course Contents | ||
Population geography (past and present increase, distribution, density and factors affecting the world population, censuses, policies, migrations, languages, religions, races, cultures and cultural regions); settlement geography (development and distribution of settlements from the first settlements to the present and the factors affecting them; classifications of settlements, functions); economic geography (fields of economic activity: sectoral classification according to their characteristics, development and geographical distribution, factors affecting its development and distribution, interaction of economic activities with the natural and human environment, and problems specific to the field of activity and environmental problems arising from this interaction). | ||
Weekly Course Content | ||
Week | Subject | Learning Activities and Teaching Methods |
1 | Turkey population | Lecture, question and answer, discussion |
2 | Population structure | Lecture, question and answer, discussion |
3 | Population policy, population density | Lecture, question and answer, discussion |
4 | Population density | Lecture, question and answer, discussion |
5 | Settlement and the geographic environment | Lecture, question and answer, discussion |
6 | Settlement of the border area | Lecture, question and answer, discussion |
7 | Factors affecting the distribution of settlements | Lecture, question and answer, discussion |
8 | mid-term exam | |
9 | Factors affecting the structure of the Housing | Lecture, question and answer, discussion |
10 | Dwellings, and dwellings in rural settlements | Lecture, question and answer, discussion |
11 | City of settlements and dwellings | Lecture, question and answer, discussion |
12 | Economic activities, agriculture | Lecture, question and answer, discussion |
13 | Animal husbandry, mining. | Lecture, question and answer, discussion |
14 | Energy sources, industrial | Lecture, question and answer, discussion |
15 | Trade, transportation, tourism | Lecture, question and answer, discussion |
16 | final exam | |
Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading | ||
1 | Güngördü,E.2006;Türkiye'nin Beşeri ve Ekonomik Coğrafyası,Asil Yayın Dağıtım,Ankara | |
Required Course instruments and materials | ||
Book, map, computer |
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) | 2 | 14 | 28 |
Outside Class | |||
a) Reading | 1 | 14 | 14 |
b) Search in internet/Library | 1 | 10 | 10 |
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 | 3 | 1 | 3 |
mid-term exam | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Own study for final exam | 3 | 1 | 3 |
final exam | 1 | 1 | 1 |
0 | |||
0 | |||
Total work load; | 60 |