• To provide students with a knowledge of the theoretical approaches in urban sociology and current trends in urban theory • To make them understand urbanisation processes and the Dynamics that this process creates in the World and in Turkey • To analyse urban structure in Turkey in terms of social, cultural, economic and political perspectives particularly by looking at actual sociological developments • To increase an awareness about urban environment and urban problems

Urban Sociology in West; Urban Sociology in Turkey; City as a Concept; General characteristics of cities; History of Cities; First Cities in History; Medieval Cities; Post-Industrial Cities; Urban and Urbanization Theories in Sociology; Migration, Urbanisation and Urbanity; City, Identity and Politics; Relationship Between Urbanisation and Modernisation, and Post-Modernism; City and Environment