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| PEMI5190 | Environmental Psychology | 3+0+0 | ECTS:7.5 | | Year / Semester | Spring Semester | | Level of Course | Second 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 | -- | | Co-Lecturer | | | Language of instruction | | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | Teaching subject related to environmental psychology research area, highlighting the relationship between spatial design and this study area, sampling research subjects and techniques related to spatial design in environmental psychology |
| Programme Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | PO - 1 : | learn subjects and techniques environmental psychology. | 1 | 6, | | PO - 2 : | understand how environmental psychology is related and its contriutions to spatial design. | 1 | 6, | | PO - 3 : | structure environmantal psychology researches in context of spatial design. | 1 | | | 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 | | |
| Historical process of human-environment relationship, age of Enlightenment and development of scientific methodology, formation of common world view / western thinking and its effects on modern environmental design practices. Problems of modern spatial designs, alternative world view (Romanticism, Expressivism), development of environmental psychology, subjects of environmental psychology, subjects, research questions and techniques at environmental psychology, samples from researches) |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | What is environmental psychology, how it is developed? | | | Week 2 | Human-environment relationship in historical process 1- problems at practices of modern environmental design disciplines. | | | Week 3 | Human-environment relationship in historical process 2- Age of Enligtenment, development of scientific methodology | | | Week 4 | Human-environment relationship in historical process 3- formation of modern spatial design approcahes and problems of design practices, the need for a new world view | | | Week 5 | Human-environment relationship in historical process 4- alternative world view; romanticism, expressivism and human- environment relationship | | | Week 6 | Past 60 years of environmental psychology, subject of environmental psychology | | | Week 7 | structuring the research period in environmetal psychology | | | Week 8 | student presentations | | | Week 9 | exam week | | | Week 10 | Subjects and techniques in environmetal psychology; researches that use cognitive maps and their subjects | | | Week 11 | Subjects and techniques in environmetal psychology; researhes that use behavioral observation and maps | | | Week 12 | Subjects and techniques in environmetal psychology; trace measures, simulation and games | | | Week 13 | Subjects and techniques in environmetal psychology; interview and questionnaire | | | Week 14 | student presentations | | | Week 15 | final exam week | | | Week 16 | final exam week | | | |
| 1 | H. M. Proshansky, W. H. Ittelson, L. G. Rivlin (Eds.) 1976. Environmental Psychology; People and Their Physical Settings, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., Second Edition | | | 2 | J. Lang (Ed.) 1974. Designing for Human Behavior. Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross Inc. | | | 3 | Lang, J., 1987. Creating Architectural Theory; the Role of the Behavioral Sciences in Environmental Design. Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York. | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Presentation | 12 | | 1,00 | 30 | | Homework/Assignment/Term-paper | 9 | | 1,00 | 20 | | End-of-term exam | 15 | | 1,00 | 50 | | |
| Student Work Load and its Distribution | | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | | Yüz yüze eğitim | 3 | 13 | 39 | | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 7 | 13 | 91 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 7 | 3 | 21 | | Arasınav | 1 | 2 | 2 | | Ödev | 5 | 3 | 15 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 10 | 3 | 30 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Total work load | | | 199 |
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