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PEM2018Spatial Behavior2+0+0ECTS:3
Year / SemesterSpring Semester
Level of CourseFirst Cycle
Status Compulsory
DepartmentDEPARTMENT of LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
Prerequisites and co-requisitesNone
Mode of DeliveryFace to face
Contact Hours14 weeks - 2 hours of lectures per week
LecturerDoç. Dr. Sema MUMCU
Co-Lecturer
Language of instructionTurkish
Professional practise ( internship ) None
 
The aim of the course:
The course aims to provide the students with a general knowledge on concepts of environmental psychology and to teach them the process of perception, cognition, and behavior, methods in environment-behavior research and to help them use these methods to get data from a given site, and to teach them types of human needs and how to reflect these knowledge on their projects and analyze human needs for a particular project subject.
 
Learning OutcomesCTPOTOA
Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to :
LO - 1 : analyze what the human needs are for a given project area.1,2,4,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13
LO - 2 : use environment-behavior research methods and tools, analyze the data, and use the findings in design process.1,2,4,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,131,3,5
LO - 3 : reflect their information about spatial organisation such as human needs, activity patterns, spatial arrangement to their environmental design projects1,2,4,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,131,3,5
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), LO : Learning Outcome

 
Contents of the Course
History and concepts of environmental psychology Human-environment relationship, Human needs, Maslow's hierarchy of human needs Concepts of perception, cognition, behaviour Theories of landscape perception, preference Concepts spatial organization, types of spaces, human need-activity type-spatial organization relationship
 
Course Syllabus
 WeekSubjectRelated Notes / Files
 Week 1Information on general contents of the course, issues, and aims. The relationship of the knowledge from this course with Landscape Architecture discipline, informing students how and where to use these knowledge.
 Week 2Environmental psychology, its history and development, and subjects. The relationship of spatial behavior knowledge and design.Samples from environement-behavior researches.
 Week 3changes in human-environment (nature)relationship in historical context (1; human-nature relationship before and after enlighment period, positivism and scientific method, effects on landscape architecture
 Week 4changes in human-environment (nature)relationship in historical context (2; alternative approaches on human-environment relationship, romanticism, expressionism
 Week 5The nature of human-environment interaction. The concept of environment, its definition, classification.
 Week 6The concept of space, various definitions, classifications, samples. The concept of spatial organization; considering human needs-activity-space relationship in design project scenarios
 Week 7The concepts of spatial elements and components, their definitions, their roles in spatial organization.
 Week 8The definition spatial composition, its role in spatial behavior; unity, balance, scale, form, symmetry concepts, their relationship with spatial behavior, analyzing these concepts on samples
 Week 9Mid-term exam
 Week 10Behavior settings; behavior setting theory, basic concepts; behavior patterns, milieu, synomorphy; basic properties. Analyzing these concepts on various samples.
 Week 11Behavior mechanism in human, human needs, motivation, reflections of needs on activities and space.
 Week 12Perception, cognition and evaluation process, the concept perception, the theories of perception,
 Week 13The concept of cognition, cognitive maps, environmental evaluation, environmental preference concept and basic approaches.
 Week 14Spatial behavior, basic properties of human behavior, models of human behavior, ecological model in detail. privacy, personal space, territorial behavior, personalization
 Week 15final exam
 
Textbook / Material
1Gür, Ş. 1996; Mekan Örgütlenmesi (Spatial Organization), Gür Matbaacılık, Trabzon
2Proshansky, H. M., Ittelson, W. H., Rivlin, L. G. (Eds.) 1976; Environmental Psychology; People and Their Physical Settings, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc. Second Edition.
 
Recommended Reading
 
Method of Assessment
Type of assessmentWeek NoDate

Duration (hours)Weight (%)
Quiz 9 1 30
Homework/Assignment/Term-paper 15 16 20
End-of-term exam 15 1 50
 
Student Work Load and its Distribution
Type of workDuration (hours pw)

No of weeks / Number of activity

Hours in total per term
Yüz yüze eğitim 2 14 28
Sınıf dışı çalışma 0 0 0
Laboratuar çalışması 0 0 0
Arasınav için hazırlık 8 1 8
Arasınav 1 1 1
Uygulama 0 0 0
Klinik Uygulama 0 0 0
Ödev 6 6 36
Proje 0 0 0
Kısa sınav 0 0 0
Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık 8 2 16
Dönem sonu sınavı 1 1 1
Diğer 1 0 0 0
Diğer 2 0 0 0
Total work load90