| Course Objectives: |
The aim of this course is to study the interactions between human and his environment, to promote the role of the environment in everyday life, to examine the field of environmental psychology, its major concepts, theories and methods, to study the effects of physical and social environment on human psychology, to interpret the effects of physical, chemical, biological and social environment surrounding human on the health, to focus on the importance of environment for life and, to gain environmental sensitivity. |
| Course Content: |
The aim of this course is to study the interactions between human and his environment, to promote the role of the environment in everyday life, to examine the field of environmental psychology, its major concepts, theories and methods, to study the effects of physical and social environment on human psychology, to interpret the effects of physical, chemical, biological and social environment surrounding human on the health, to focus on the importance of environment for life and, to gain environmental sensitivity. |
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Subject |
Related Preparation |
| 1) |
Human-space relations in terms of environmental psychology
Basic principles of environmental psychology |
Lecturer's notes and related articles |
| 2) |
Historical development of environmental psychology
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Lecturer's notes and related articles |
| 3) |
Perception and representation of the environment
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Lecturer's notes and related articles |
| 4) |
The physical, chemical, biological environment surrounding humans
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Lecturer's notes and related articles |
| 5) |
Noisy
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Lecturer's notes and related articles |
| 6) |
Air pollution
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Lecturer's notes and related articles |
| 7) |
Stress |
Lecturer's notes and related articles |
| 8) |
Social environment
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Lecturer's notes and related articles |
| 9) |
Environment and personality
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Lecturer's notes and related articles |
| 10) |
Privacy, its theories, factors
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Lecturer's notes and related articles |
| 11) |
Personal space and spatiality
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Lecturer's notes and related articles |
| 12) |
Home and residential environments
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Lecturer's notes and related articles |
| 13) |
Place attachment and place identity
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Lecturer's notes and related articles |
| 14) |
Environmental design process
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Lecturer's notes and related articles |
| 15) |
All topics covered in the course for 14 weeks
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Lecturer's notes and related articles |
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Program Outcomes |
Level of Contribution |
| 1) |
- Gaining discursive, theoretical and factual information from various environments, in local, national and global context for related field, architectural design/ planning/ design activities and researches, she has required ability and comprehension to reflect the information on academic environment. |
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| 2) |
- Has intellectual, discursive, scientific, technologic, esthetic, artistic, historic and cultural information and comprehension about related field. |
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| 3) |
- Has knowledge and understanding on human and community oriented and sensitive to environment (natural and built) architectural design/ planning/ design/ research methods on the related field. |
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| 4) |
- Has multidimensional knowledge and understanding on economics, topics related to disasters and environmental and societal sustainability principles and standards. |
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| 5) |
- They have knowledge about the principles, laws, regulations and standards related to their field. |
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| 6) |
- Has knowledge and understanding about institutional and ethical values related to the concerned field. |
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| 7) |
- Has knowledge and understanding about the place / importance of the related field in its historical, geographical, social and cultural context. |
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| 8) |
- Has ability to develop concepts in architectural design/ planning/ design fields. |
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| 9) |
- Has ability to provide integrity between discourse, theory and practise for architectural design / planning / design activities and researches. |
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| 10) |
- Has ability to identify facts, potential, problems and required researches for these in architectural design/ planning/ design issues. |
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