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GRADUATE INSTITUTE of NATURAL and APPLIED SCIENCES / DEPARTMENT of LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE / Doctorate
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PEMI7191@ Ecological Approaches to Environmental Preference3+0+0ECTS:7.5
Year / SemesterFall Semester
Level of CourseThird Cycle
Status Elective
DepartmentDEPARTMENT of LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
Prerequisites and co-requisitesNone
Mode of Delivery
Contact Hours14 weeks - 3 hours of lectures per week
LecturerProf. 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 OutcomesCTPOTOA
Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to :
PO - 1 : define basic approaches to human-environment relationship1,2
PO - 2 : develop a methodology based on ecological approaches while conducting a human-environment research1,2
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

 
Contents of the Course
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
 
Course Syllabus
 WeekSubjectRelated Notes / Files
 Week 1Historical review of approaches to human-environment reletionship1: environment-behavior relationship before Enlightenment era
 Week 2Historical review of approaches to human-environment relationship 2: Enlightenment Era, Positivism and modernism, common worldview, results on environmental design.
 Week 3Historical 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 4Environmental preference: definition, approaches used in environmental preference (briefly). What is ecological approach? Principles, properties, differences from the others.
 Week 5Theories of ecological approcah1: Behavior Setting Theory; basic principles and properties, theoretical concepts, how to use in environmental design and preference researches
 Week 6Theories of ecological approach 2: Affordance Theory; basic principles and properties, theoretical concepts, how to use in environmental design and preference researches
 Week 7Theories of ecological approach 3: Prospect Refuge Theory, basic principles and properties, theoretical concepts, how to use in environmental design and preference researches
 Week 8Theories of ecological approach 4: Information Processing Theory, basic principles and properties, theoretical concepts, how to use in environmental design and preference researches
 Week 9Exam week
 Week 10Guidelines about other theories
 Week 11Practice: Planning an environmental preference research based on ecological approach.
 Week 12Literature research, designing methodology and discuss with lecturer.
 Week 13Presentation of research proposed research
 Week 14Presentation of research proposed research
 Week 15Final Exams week
 Week 16Final exams week
 
Textbook / Material
1Appleton, J., 1975; The Experience of Landscape. John Wiley& Sons Inc., Surrey.
2Barker, R., G., 1968; Ecological Psychology; Concepts and Methods for Studying the Environment of Human Behavior. Stanford University Pres, Stanford, California.
 
Recommended Reading
1Thwaites, Kevin, and Ian M. Simkins 2006; Experiential landscape: an approach to people, place and space. Routledge.
 
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