Course Code & Number
ARCH 529
Course Title
Local Histories of Urban Culture
Level
MS
Credit Hours/ ECTS Credits
(3+0+0) 3 TEDU Credits, 7.5 ECTS Credits
Pre-requisite / Co-requisite::
Pre-requisites: NONE
Co-requisites: NONE
Catalog Description
A hands-on research and historiography course where local/specific/minute cases of socio-spatial practices of urban culture (s) are studied throughout the semester with the aim of developing suggestive narratives through interpretative data. The course aims to introduce critical discussions on the methodologies of historio-graphy, as well as contributing to the knowledge on the variety and diversity of everyday practices of the city within the recent past. The cases to be studied each semester can be selected among small scale institutions, events-practices, or people, as well as locations, places or buildings/sites (e.g. “Süleyman Bağcıoğlu as a case of the working musician within the live music and entertainment scene in Ankara”; “İnek Bayramı in Mülkiye; as a case of festivity within the academic environment”; “Tavukçu Lokantası”, etc.)