Course Information


Course Information
Course Title Code Semester L+U Hour Credits ECTS
CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY UCOG131 1. Semester 2 + 0 2.0 4.0

Prerequisites None

Language of Instruction Turkish
Course Level Bachelor's Degree
Course Type Compulsory
Mode of delivery Lecture; question-answer
Course Coordinator
Instructors Mustafa Murat YÜCEŞAHİN
Assistants
Goals This course focuses on describing and analyzing the ways language, religion, economy, government and other cultural phenomena vary or remain constant, from one place to another and on explaining how humans function spatially.
Course Content Cultural geography is a sub-field within human geography. Cultural geography is the study of cultural products and norms and their variations across and relations to spaces and places.
Learning Outcomes 1) Students know the cultural processes and they can explain spatial differences based on the cultural processes
2) Students can observe the cultural characteristics of the world from the past to today and evaulate the all of the cultural systems by global and local levels
3) Students know the geographical channels of cultural interaction
4) Students know the differences between the popular and folc culture
5) Students know the spatial variability of cultural characteristics
6) Students know the relationships between the globalisation and the popular culture
7) Students can explain the environmental effects of popular culture

Weekly Topics (Content)
Week Topics Teaching and Learning Methods and Techniques Study Materials
1. Week An Introduction to Cultural Geography Lecture; Question Answer
Brainstorming
Brain Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
2. Week Culture As a Socio-Spatial System Lecture; Question Answer; Case Study
Opinion Pool; Debate
Brain Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
3. Week Cultural Interaction Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion; Case Study
Brainstorming; Debate
Brain Based Learning; Play Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
4. Week Geographical Channels of Cultural Interaction Lecture; Question Answer
Opinion Pool; Debate
Brain Based Learning; Play Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
5. Week Cultural Norms and Socio-Spatial Differences Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion; Case Study
Brainstorming; Debate
Storyline; Brain Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
6. Week Cultural Types Lecture; Question Answer; Case Study
Brainstorming; Debate
Storyline; Scenario Based Learning; Brain Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
7. Week .Mid-term

8. Week Three Basic Component of Culture and Geographical Paradigm Lecture; Question Answer; Case Study
Brainstorming; Opinion Pool
Problem Based Learning; Storyline; Brain Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
9. Week Globalisation, Popular Culture, Local Culture and Geography Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Brainstorming; Opinion Pool; Debate
Storyline; Scenario Based Learning; Brain Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
10. Week Impacts of Popular Culture on the Folk Culture 1st week Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Opinion Pool; Debate
Problem Based Learning; Storyline; Brain Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
11. Week Impacts of Popular Culture on the Folk Culture 2nd week Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion; Case Study
Brainstorming; Opinion Pool; Debate
Problem Based Learning; Brain Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
12. Week Environmental Effects of Popular Culture Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion; Case Study
Brainstorming; Opinion Pool
Problem Based Learning; Brain Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
13. Week Language and the cultural interaction Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Brainstorming; Opinion Pool
Scenario Based Learning; Brain Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
14. Week Language, Gender, Ethnicity, Nationalism and Cultural Geographies Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion; Case Study
Opinion Pool; Debate
Problem Based Learning; Brain Based Learning; Case Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)

Sources Used in This Course
Recommended Sources
Atkinson, David, 2005, Cultural Geography: A Critical Dictionary of Key Concepts, Palgrave, London.
Crang, Mike 1998, Cultural Geography, Routledge, London.
Fiske, J. 2012. Popüler Kültürü Anlamak. Parşömen yay. Çev. S. İrvan, Ankara.
Harvey, D. 2015. Kozmopolitlik ve Özgürlik Coğrafyaları. Çev. Z.C. Başeren, İstanbul.
Jordan-Bychkov, Terry G., Mona Domosh, Roderick P. Neumann, Patricia L. Price, 2006, The Human Mosaic : A Thematic Introduction to Cultural Geography, W.H. Freeman, New York.
Prins, Dana Walrath, Bunny McBridge, 2008, Kültürel Antropoloji, Çev. İnan Deniz Erguvan Sarıoğlu, Kaknüs Yayınları, İstanbul.
Prins, Dana Walrath, Bunny McBridge, 2008, Kültürel Antropoloji, Çev. İnan Deniz Erguvan Sarıoğlu, Kaknüs Yayınları, İstanbul.
Rubenstein, James M. 2007, The Cultural Landscape: An Introduction to Human Geography, 9th edition, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ.
Tezcan, M., 1997, Kültürel Antropoloji, Kültür Bakanlığı Yayınları, Ankara.
Tümertekin, Erol ve Özgüç, Nazmiye, 2009, Beşeri Coğrafya: İnsan, Kültür ve Mekan, Çantay Kitabevi, İstanbul.

ECTS credits and course workload
Event Quantity Duration (Hour) Total Workload (Hour)
Course Duration (Total weeks*Hours per week) 14 2
Work Hour outside Classroom (Preparation, strengthening) 14 3
Time to prepare for Midterm Exam 1 10
Time to prepare for Final Exam 1 30
1 1
1 1.5
Total Workload
Total Workload / 30 (s)
ECTS Credit of the Course
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