The minimum qualifications that are expected from the students who want to attend the course.(Examples: Foreign language level, attendance, known theoretical pre-qualifications, etc.)
Instructor(s)
DOÇ. DR. YASEMİN ERKAN YAZICI
Course Assistant(s)
Schedule
Salı 9.00-11.45
Office Hour(s)
Cuma 13.00-14.00
Teaching Methods and Techniques
-verbal explanation/presentation
Principle Sources
-Lawson, Bryan (1980) 2006. How Designers Think: The Design Process Demystified. Architectural Press: Amsterdam, Boston.
Collis, Jill and Hussey, Roger (1997) 2003. Business Research: A Practical Guide For Undergraduate and Postgraduate Students. Palgrave, Macmillan.
Snodgrass, Adrian and Coyne, Richard, 2006. Interpretation in Architecture: Design as a Way of Thinking. Routledge: London, New York.
Naoum, Dr S. G. (1998) 2009. Dissertation Research & Writing for Construction Students. Butterworth-Heinemann, New York, London.
Creswell, John W., 1994. Research Design: Qualitative & Quantitative Approaches. Sage Publications: London, New Delhi.
Groat, Linda and Wang, David 2002. Architectural Research Methods. John Wiley & Sons: U.S.A.
Knight, Andrew & Ruddock Les, 2008. Advanced Research Methods in the Built Environment. Wiley-Blackwell: Singapore.
Other Sources
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Course Schedules
Week
Contents
Learning Methods
1. Week
Introduction
presentation - discussion
2. Week
Research Methodology
presentation - discussion
3. Week
Basic Concepts
presentation - discussion
4. Week
Processes of Scientific
Research
presentation - discussion
5. Week
Different Approaches
presentation - discussion
6. Week
Historical Approaches
presentation - discussion
7. Week
Qualitative Techniques
presentation - discussion
8. Week
Correlational Techniques
presentation - discussion
9. Week
Experimental Research
presentation - discussion
10. Week
Simulation and Modelling
presentation - discussion
11. Week
Logical Argumentation
presentation - discussion
12. Week
Case Studies
presentation - discussion
13. Week
Presantations
presentation
14. Week
Presantations
presentation
15. Week
16. Week
17. Week
Assessments
Evaluation tools
Quantity
Weight(%)
Quizzes
2
30
Homework / Term Projects / Presentations
1
20
Project(s)
1
20
3
30
Program Outcomes
PO-1
To gain knowledge and understand the socio-economical and spatial components and processes which are both the subjects and the outcomes of an urban design project.
PO-2
To gain knowledge and critical awareness about the relations in between urban design and the other disciplines like architecture, urban planning, economy and sociology; and the opportunuties and threats that will arise by these relations.
PO-3
Ability to realize an urban design project or a research on urban design in a multidisciplinary process, using both the theoretical and practical knowledge infrastructure, developing new methods and techniques.
PO-4
Ability to direct socio-economical and spatial components and processes in the urban design process.
PO-5
Ability to make research, to analyse and to criticise in the area of academical knowledge and design processes, using the appropriate techniques, producing original results.
PO-6
To gain competency on conducting an indivudial research or project on urban design.
PO-7
To gain competency on working as a group member and to work out the complicated processes that will occur during the urban design.
PO-8
To gain competency to transfer the knowledge gained using a foreign language, both in verbal and visual way, via contemporary computer programmes and techniques.
PO-9
To gain competancy to produce an original academical/scientific research, to present and to discuss in a dialectical framework.
PO-10
To gain competency on strategical decision making as a component of the urban design project and to produce original solutions considering ethical values.
Learning Outcomes
LO-1
The understand scientific logic
LO-2
To apply objective behavior
LO-3
To be simple and pragmatic
LO-4
To avoid bias
LO-5
To improve the ability of using research techniques
