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| PEM7140 | Visual Quality in Environmental Preference An | 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 | Face to face | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 3 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | -- | | Co-Lecturer | Asist. Prof. Dr. Arzu Kalın | | Language of instruction | Turkish | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | The course aims to provide the students with a general knowledge on human environment interaction and how an environmental evaluation will occur, to enable them to understand environmental evaluation-preference and visual quality relations, develop the reasonable constructions among different kinds of environmental evaluation systems about visual quality, to teach them how to search for visual quality needs of a space. |
| Programme Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | PO - 1 : | summarize the environmental evolution and preference techniques, different approaches and be able to explain the place of visual quality in environmental evaluation systems. | 1,2,9,10,11,12 | 2,5 | | PO - 2 : | describe how can a researcher evaluate visual quality in any environment. | 1,2,7,9,10,11,12 | 3 | | PO - 3 : | choose a specific environment and apply various environmental evaluation or visual quality techniques in a research. | 1,2,7,9,10,11,12,13 | 2,5 | | PO - 4 : | evaluate the results of a specific environmental quality assessment application to a specific environment and determine areas of potential interest. | 1,2,7,8,9,10,11,12,13 | 2,5 | | 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 | | |
| Relationship between human and physical environment;
Environmental perception and environmental experience of a person;
Visual quality concept of environment and its components;
Environmental experience and visual quality relationship;
Environmental preference and evaluation theorems-researches-samples: human needs-space qualities according to space needs, space perception qualities according to gestalt principles, design qualities, serial vision qualities;
Visual quality in environmental preference and evaluation researches;
Preference and evaluation of visual qualities of environment |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Relationship between human and physical environment, | | | Week 2 | Environmental perception and environmental experience of a person, | | | Week 3 | Visual quality concept of environment and its components, | | | Week 4 | Environmental preference and evaluation theorems-researches-samples:Human needs-space qualities according to space needs, | | | Week 5 | Environmental preference and evaluation theorems-researches-samples:Space perception qualities according to Gestalt principles and design qualities, | | | Week 6 | Environmental preference and evaluation theorems-researches-samples:Serial vision qualities, | | | Week 7 | Environmental experience and visual quality relationship, | | | Week 8 | Preference and evaluation of visual qualities of environment, | | | Week 9 | Mid-term exam | | | Week 10 | Collection of data about application project:Article review, | | | Week 11 | Collection of data about application project:Article review, | | | Week 13 | Data evaluation and constructing an application project, | | | Week 14 | Discussion about application project, | | | Week 15 | Presentation of application project, | | | Week 16 | End-of-term exam | | | |
| 1 | Kalın, A. 2004, Çevre Tercih ve Değerlendirmesinde Görsel Kalitenin Belirlenmesi ve Geliştirilmesi:Trabzon Sahil Bandı Örneği. KTÜ Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Trabzon | | | |
| 1 | Altman, I. 1983, Human Behavior and Environment: Volume 6. Behavior and the Natural Environment, Plenum Press, New York | | | 2 | Kaplan, S. and Kaplan, R. 1982, Humanscape: Environments, For People, Ulrich?s Books Inc., Ann Arbor, Michigan | | | 3 | J. L. Nasar, J. L. 1992, Environmental Aesthetics: Theory Research and Applications, Cambridge University Press, USA | | | 4 | Bechtel, R. B., Marans, R. W. and Michelson, W. 1987, Methods in Environmental And Behavioral Research, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York | | | 5 | Porteous, J. D. 1996, Environmental Aesthetics: Ideas, Politics and Planning, Routledge, London and New York | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 8 | 18/11/2016 | 2 | 20 | | Practice | 12 | 16/12/2016 | 3 | 30 | | Presentation | 16 | 13/01/2017 | 2 | 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 | 15 | 45 | | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 4 | 14 | 56 | | Laboratuar çalışması | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 5 | 7 | 35 | | Arasınav | 3 | 1 | 3 | | Uygulama | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Klinik Uygulama | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Ödev | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Proje | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Kısa sınav | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 3 | 9 | 27 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 3 | 1 | 3 | | Diğer 1 | 5 | 9 | 45 | | Diğer 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Total work load | | | 214 |
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