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INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES / COG551 - COĞRAFYA (TEZLİ YÜKSEK LİSANS)

Code: COG551 Course Title: GENDER AND GEOGRAPHY Theoretical+Practice: 3+0 ECTS: 6
Year/Semester of Study 1 / Fall Semester
Level of Course 2nd Cycle Degree Programme
Type of Course Compulsory
Department COĞRAFYA (TEZLİ YÜKSEK LİSANS)
Pre-requisities and Co-requisites None
Mode of Delivery Face to Face
Teaching Period 14 Weeks
Name of Lecturer BEYDA SADIKOĞLU (beydasadikoglu@nevsehir.edu.tr)
Name of Lecturer(s)
Language of Instruction Turkish
Work Placement(s) None
Objectives of the Course
This course aims to provide a comprehensive introduction to the field of gender studies focusing on space by introducing students to the basic theoretical frameworks necessary to analyze the interrelationships between gender roles and gender norms and the concepts of space and place.

Learning Outcomes PO MME
The students who succeeded in this course:
LO-1 To have the basic conceptual and theoretical framework to analyze the mutually constitutive relations between gender and space. PO-6 Araştırma yoluyla elde ettiği coğrafi bilgiyi yorumlamak ve etik değerleri gözeterek yazılı, sözlü ve görsel olarak başkalarına aktarabilmek.
Examination
LO-2 To be able to understand, interpret, comparatively analyze and critically evaluate academic studies and research on gender and space produced in different disciplines. PO-2 Bilimsel araştırma yoluyla coğrafi bilgiye ulaşabilmek, yorumlamak ve uygulayabilmek.
Examination
LO-3 To have the basic theoretical, methodological and ethical background necessary to conduct research on gender and space. PO-4 Coğrafyayla ilgili bir problemi araştırarak mekâna uygun çözümler geliştirebilmek.
PO-9 Coğrafya ile ilgili kuramsal bilgileri analiz eder.
Examination
LO-4 To be able to interpret the ways in which space is conceptualized in historical and contemporary contexts and the ways in which different spaces are defined / constructed / designed / constructed / used and represented from a gender perspective. PO-12 Coğrafya ile ilgili ulusal ve uluslararası yayınları takip eder.
PO-14 Coğrafya ile ilgili edindiği bilgi ve becerileri, yazılı ve sözlü olarak aktarır.
Examination
PO: Programme Outcomes
MME:Method of measurement & Evaluation

Course Contents
Feminism and Feminist Geography: Background and Basic Concepts, Theoretical Framework in Feminist Research, Objections to Masculine Geography in Geography Discipline: Critique of Deterministic Thinking, Gender and Socio-Spatial Dialectics.
Weekly Course Content
Week Subject Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
1 mid-term exam
2 final exam
Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading
1 Özgüç, N. (1998), Kadınların Coğrafyası, Çantay Kitabevi.
2 Massey, D. 1994. Space, Place and Gender. Cambridge: Polity Press.
3 Tuncer, S. (2012), “Beşeri Coğrafyaya Feminist İtirazlar,” Fe Dergi 4, sayı 1 79-90. URL: http://cins.ankara.edu.tr/7_7.html
4 Acar-Savran, G. (2013). Özel alan/kamusal alan ve özel alanın politikası. İçinde Beden Emek Tarih: Diyalektik Bir Feminizm İçin, İstanbul: Pusula Yayıncılık, pp. 97-168.
5 Hooks, B. (2012). Feminizm Herkes İçindir: Tutkulu Politika. Bgst yayınları, İstanbul.
6 Donovan, J. (2014). Feminist Teori: Entelektüel Gelenekler, Çev. A. Bora, M. Ağduk Gevrek, ve F. Sayılan. İstanbul: İletişim yayınları.
7 Yüceşahin, M.M. (2016). Toplumsal Cinsiyet Ve Mekânın Karşılıklı İlişkisi: Patriyarkanın Sosyal Mekânı Örgütleyişine Dair Bir Tartışma. Kadın / Women 2000: Kadın Araştırmaları Dergisi 17 (1): 73-101.
Required Course instruments and materials
Lecture Notes, Projection

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 16 48
Outside Class
       a) Reading 3 7 21
       b) Search in internet/Library 3 7 21
       c) Performance Project 0
       d) Prepare a workshop/Presentation/Report 5 5 25
       e) Term paper/Project 0
Oral Examination 0
Quiz 0
Laboratory exam 0
Own study for mid-term exam 6 4 24
mid-term exam 1 1 1
Own study for final exam 8 6 48
final exam 1 1 1
0
0
Total work load; 189