COURSE UNIT TITLE

: HUMAN AND URBAN ENVIRONMENTAL INTERACTION

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ELECTIVE

Offered By

City and Regional Planning

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR GÖZDE EKŞIOĞLU ÇETINTAHRA

Offered to

City and Regional Planning

Course Objective

In this course, it's aimed to discuss the interaction of human psychology with the physical and social environment through environmental psychology and urban design disciplines.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   to learn the concepts and principles of environmental psychology.
2   to list the psychological, architectural and geographical variables that effects the perception of the environment.
3   to interpret the methods that analyse human and environment interactions.
4   to analyse the relation between environmental psychology and urban design.
5   to evaluate the effects of existing urban environments on human psychology within the scope of the principles that are learnt in the course.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Getting acquainted, transferring the course content and process, explaining the evaluation methods; Sence, perception, perceptional process, and environmental psychology
2 What is environmental psychology What are the basic principles of environmental psychology Psychological, architectural and geographical backgrounds
3 The main research methods of environmental psychology
4 Environmental perception, mental / cognitive maps
5 Discussions and determinations on homework topics
6 Individual factors that affects behavior
7 Social environmental factors that affects behavior
8 Physical environmental factors that affects behavior
9 Midterm
10 Perception of built environment: landscape
11 Perception of built environment: architecture
12 Perception of built environment: neighborhood
13 Perception of built environment: urban area
14 Presentation and evaluation of homework
15 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Bechtel, R.B. ve Churchman, A. (2002). Handbook of environmental psychology. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
Lang, J. (1987). Creating Architectural Theory: The Role of the Behavioral Sciences in Environmental Design.
Göregenli, M. (2010). Çevre Psikolojisi: Insan-Mekan Ilişkileri. Istanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi.
Valentin, J. ve Gamez, L. (2010). Environmental Psychology: New Developments. Nova Science Publishers.
Steg, L., Van Den Berg, A.E. ve De Groot, J.I. (2012). Environmental Psychology: An Introduction. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
Ekşioğlu, G. (2010). Çevre Estetiğinin Konut Fiyatları Üzerindeki Etkisinin Hedonik Fiyat Yöntemi Ile Modellenmesi. (Yayınlanmamış Yüksek Lisans Tezi). DEÜ Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Izmir.
Ekşioğlu Çetintahra, G. ve Çubukçu, E. (2010). The influence of environmental aesthetics on economic value of housing: An empirical research on virtual environments. Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 30 (2), 331-340.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

This course will be given through conference presentations and literature readings. Besides midterm exam, students will be required to prepare homework in the semester.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FINS FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.30 + ASG * 0.30 + FINS * 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + ASG * 0.30 + RST * 0.40


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Listing and Description are evaluated by the Midterm Evaluation. Analysis and Interpretation are evaluated by Homework. Interpretation, Analysis and Evaluation are evaluated by the Final Exam.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

This course will be given through conference presentations and literature readings. Besides the midterm examinations, students will be required to prepare homework in the semester.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

gozde.eksioglu@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Wednesday 10:30-12:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 2 24
Student Presentations 1 2 2
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 6 2 12
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 15 15
Preparing assignments 1 10 10
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 77

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.211
LO.311
LO.41
LO.5111

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