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| PEMI7191 | @ Ecological Approaches to Environmental Preference | 3+0+0 | ECTS:7.5 | | Year / Semester | Fall Semester | | Level of Course | Third Cycle | | Status | Elective | | Department | DEPARTMENT of LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 3 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | Prof. Dr. Sema MUMCU | | Co-Lecturer | | | Language of instruction | | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | To gain the knowledge of how human-environment relationship transformed from past to nowadays, to discuss and evaluate the results of different views in different historical periods in light of environmental design and preference, to teach the basic principles and properties of ecological approaches, to examine theories about this approach and researches based on these theories, to gain them the knowledge of to decide which theory and how to use it in the studies. |
| Programme Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | PO - 1 : | define basic approaches to human-environment relationship | 1,2 | | | PO - 2 : | develop a methodology based on ecological approaches while conducting a human-environment research | 1,2 | | | PO - 3 : | discuss which kind of research problems the principles of ecological approaches will be applied to. | 1,2 | | | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), PO : Learning Outcome | | |
| What are the approaches to human-environment relationship, review of historical perspectives. How did the ecological approach develop? Basic principles and properties. The difference of ecological approach from others used in environmental preference. Theories of ecological approach: Behavior Setting Theory, Affordances, Prospect Refuge Theory, Information Processing theory, others |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Historical review of approaches to human-environment reletionship1: environment-behavior relationship before Enlightenment era | | | Week 2 | Historical review of approaches to human-environment relationship 2: Enlightenment Era, Positivism and modernism, common worldview, results on environmental design. | | | Week 3 | Historical review of approaches to human-environment relationship 3: Alternative world views, Post-modernism, the efforts of reestablishing the broken bond between human and environment, the development of ecological approach, reflections on environmental design. | | | Week 4 | Environmental preference: definition, approaches used in environmental preference (briefly). What is ecological approach? Principles, properties, differences from the others. | | | Week 5 | Theories of ecological approcah1: Behavior Setting Theory; basic principles and properties, theoretical concepts, how to use in environmental design and preference researches | | | Week 6 | Theories of ecological approach 2: Affordance Theory; basic principles and properties, theoretical concepts, how to use in environmental design and preference researches | | | Week 7 | Theories of ecological approach 3: Prospect Refuge Theory, basic principles and properties, theoretical concepts, how to use in environmental design and preference researches | | | Week 8 | Theories of ecological approach 4: Information Processing Theory, basic principles and properties, theoretical concepts, how to use in environmental design and preference researches | | | Week 9 | Exam week | | | Week 10 | Guidelines about other theories | | | Week 11 | Practice: Planning an environmental preference research based on ecological approach. | | | Week 12 | Literature research, designing methodology and discuss with lecturer. | | | Week 13 | Presentation of research proposed research | | | Week 14 | Presentation of research proposed research | | | Week 15 | Final Exams week | | | Week 16 | Final exams week | | | |
| 1 | Appleton, J., 1975; The Experience of Landscape. John Wiley& Sons Inc., Surrey. | | | 2 | Barker, R., G., 1968; Ecological Psychology; Concepts and Methods for Studying the
Environment of Human Behavior. Stanford University Pres, Stanford,
California. | | | |
| 1 | Thwaites, Kevin, and Ian M. Simkins 2006; Experiential landscape: an approach to people, place and space. Routledge. | | | |
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