COURSE UNIT TITLE

: ENVIRONMENT AND AESTHETICS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
PLN 3327 ENVIRONMENT AND AESTHETICS ELECTIVE 2 0 0 3

Offered By

City and Regional Planning

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR HAYAT ZENGIN ÇELIK

Offered to

City and Regional Planning

Course Objective

This course aims at deeply analysing the local and global characteristics of the concepts of environment and aesthetics, explaining the philosophical and conceptual bases of the relationship between the individual and the environment which form the basis of aesthetical perception, explaining the role of perception in the evaluation of social, natural and built environment with its aesthetical and practical dimensions, discussing the values created historically within the context of the design of living spaces. The altered conditions via designing and the fictional characteristic or the deficiency beyond the restructuring at all the levels of interaction will be discussed within the course and evaluations will be made over the cases.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   will be able to define the concepts of environment and aesthetics (knowledge),
2   will be able to explain the relationship of individual and environment with all the dimensions (comprehension),
3   will be able to clarify how the individual can evaluate the environment, nature or the spatial integrity through the aesthetic perception (comprehension
4   will be able to discuss the quality of the aesthetic values created in the design of living areas (comprehension),
5   will be able to analyse the fictional quality changed via the action of designing (analysis).

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Detailed definition of the concepts of environment and aesthetics
2 Environmental aesthetics and approaches
3 Environmental aesthetics and approaches
4 Conceptual and philosophical bases of the relationship set with the environment
5 The role of aesthetic and practical perception in the assessment of natural and built environment
6 Perception and meaning
7 Midterm Examination
8 Historical production of value through designing, aesthetic values created in the design of living areas
9 Art and Aesthetics
10 Society and Aesthetics
11 Nature and Aesthetics
12 Space and Aesthetics
13 Urban aesthetics
14 Homework submission/Presentations This week students will submit their homework assignments and present each other during the two-hour course.
15 Final Examination Week

Recomended or Required Reading

Tunalı, I. (1979), Estetik, Altın kitaplar Yayınevi, Istanbul.
Erzen J., 2006,Çevre Estetiği, ODTÜ Yayıncılık, Ankara.
Bozkurt, N., 2000. Sanat ve Estetik Kuramları. Asa Kitabevi, Özal Matbaası, Bursa.
Porteous, I.D., 1996. Environmental Aesthetics, Ideas, Politics and Planning, Routledge, Britain.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

This course will be given through lectures and the students will learn topics by attending the lectures. Besides the midterm examination, students will be responsible for the preparation of homework assignments.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 MTEG MIDTERM GRADE MTE * 0.50 + ASG * 0.50
4 FINS FINAL EXAM
5 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTEG * 0.50 + FINS * 0.50
6 RST RESIT
7 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTEG * 0.50 + RST * 0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Defining, Explaining and Clarifying will be measured by Midterm Examination.Discussing and Analysing will be measured by Homework Assignments/Presentation and Final Examination.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

This course will be given through lectures, readings, researches and discussions.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

hayat.zengin@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Monday 10.30-12.00; Wednesday 10.30-12.00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 2 24
presentation 1 2 2
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 4 3 12
Preparation for midterm exam 1 5 5
Preparation for final exam 1 5 5
Preparing homework 1 10 10
Preparing presentations 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 64

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15PO.16PO.17
LO.11
LO.21
LO.31
LO.41
LO.51

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