Dokuz Eylül University Information Package / Courses Catalog

General Description

History

Architectural education in the city of Izmir has first been offered in 1963 by Aegean Engineering and Architectural Private School, which has been founded at Buca, Izmir. Dokuz Eylul University Faculty of Architecture has then been established in 1992, on the 3rd of July. However, the foundation of the Faculty as party of Faculty of Engineering and Architecture Alsancak dates earlier, to the year 1971. The Faculty has been moved to its new building in Buca, Tınaztepe, Kaynaklar Campus in 2004.
Since the beginning of undergraduate architectural education with 12 students in 1972, the Faculty has gone through a number of new developments that have various legal and institutional reflections. One of such is the start of undergraduate education in urban planning with the foundation of the Department of City and Regional Planning in 1979. In time, the two Departments of Architecture and City Planning has taken a prominent place in the establishment of different institutional bodies as part of first the Aegean University Engineering Sciences, Academy of Engineering and Architecture (1971), secondly Aegean University Faculty of Fine Arts (1975), then Dokuz Eylul University Faculty of Engineering and Architecture (1982), and finally Dokuz Eylul University Faculty of Architecture (1992).

Qualification Awarded

M.Sc. in City and Regional Planning

Level of Qualification

Second Cycle (Master's Degree)

Specific Admission Requirements

First Cycle (Bachelor's Degree) diploma; minimum score of 55 from the National Central Graduate Education Entrance Examination (ALES) in the related field; a minimum score of 65 from the graduate school entrance exam; a minimum score of 60 from the nation-wide Foreign Language Exam ( YDS ) or equivalent score from an exam accredited by YÖK or a minimum score of 70 from DEU School of Foreign Languages English Proficiency Test.

Specific Arrangements for Recognition of Prior Learning (Formal, Non-Formal and Informal)

According to the Regulations of Dokuz Eylül University for Graduate Schools, students may be accepted for graduate transfer with the approval of the Department Directorate and decision of the Board of Directors of the Graduate School in case the student fulfills the graduate transfer regulations decided by the General Council of the Graduate School. Previously taken courses at another graduate programme with a successful grade may be recognized by the related programmes with the written request of the students including course contents and the transcript, and by the recommendation of the Department Directorates and by the decision of the Board of Directors. The courses taken by the outgoing Exchange students may have the recognition at the school either as compulsory or elective by the decision of the Board of Directors.

Qualification Requirements and Regulations

2 years (excluding one year of English Preparatory School), 2 semesters per year, 16 weeks per semester, 120 ECTS in total.

Profile of the Programme

The cities occupy a crucial role in daily living practices as areas where economical relations are established and organized on the one hand, and where social culture is being produced on the other. While economical profitability is dependent upon spatial fluidity, functionality and facilities offered by the cities, cultural structure, which is the inevitable imperative for social re-production, is realized through those experiences attained over urban space. In this respect, to the extent that cities can provide for facilities as places of economical and social communication, sound and successful processes can be attained along the line of development extending from the individual to the society. Searches for reaching livable environments undoubtedly do not interfere with organization of merely the built environment. The naturality of the relations between the natural and urban environments bears important connections with the harmony between man and nature.
The Department of City and Regional Planning deals with the city as the re-production area social and economical processes and the organization of urban spaces. This area of interest comprises the relations between nature and built environments. In national, regional, urban and sub-urban regions, planning should be able to create not only such spatial organizations that can maximize economical profitability, but also such spatial opportunities where the society can express and re-produce its cultural identity.

Percentage of Courses Taught in English: %30

Key Learning Outcomes

1	Ability to design and conduct urban research and analyze and interpret research findings.
2	Ability to interpret and use knowledge pertaining to contemporary issues in problem solving.
3	Ability to develop comprehensive strategies to guide implementation.
4	Ability to comprehend the occupational and ethical responsibilities.
5	Ability to mediate, resolve conflicts, work together, supervise and to comprehend the leadership position of planner in planning process.
6	Ability to achieve and evaluate spatial planning practice within social, economic, cultural and political framework.
7	Ability to understand the importance of stakeholders in planning and to define the effects of public participation in planning process.
8	Ability to interpret the effects of local traditions and historical heritage in urban and regional planning.
9	Ability to determine the contextual needs for urban planning and to develop appropriate solutions to supply these needs.
10	Ability to interpret the urban planning experiences of different countries and their historic, local, climatic, technological, socio-economic and cultural causes.
11	Graphical representation ability to support visual communication (Ability to support presentations by hand drawings and advanced technical software, and to represent each phase of analysis, synthesis and design formally.)
12	Written and oral communication ability including following up literature in foreign languages and expressing ideas academically in discussions.
13	Associating the principles of social justice with urban planning.
14	Gaining knowledge and consciousness of nature and natural resource.
15	Recognising the individual as the subject and object of urban planning, examining the effects of implementations on the individual and searches for solutions.
16	Gaining knowledge about the theoretical and practical approaches in rural planning and experience of field surveys.
17	Gaining knowledge about the theoretical and practical approaches in changing dynamics in regional development and industrial planning and experience of field surveys.

Occupational Profiles of Graduates with Examples

Alumni are employed in the public sector (ministries and affiliated provincial organizations, municipalities) and private sector (private offices, appraisal companies, and so on).

Access to Further Studies

May apply to third cycle programmes.

Course Structure Diagram with Credits

Semester	No	Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type of Course	T	P	L	ECTS
In addition to the compulsory courses of the programme, students register to elective courses appropriate for their thesis topic, on the consent of their supervisor. If necessary, on the consent of their supervisor, they can also register to courses from other programmes (from DEU or other universities).
T: Theoretical P: Practice L: Laboratory B: Spring Semester G: Fall Semester H: Full Year
1 .Semester:
G	1	PLN 5067	URBAN PLANNING RESEARCH	COMPULSORY	4	4	0	13
G	2	PLN 5093	APPLIED MATHEMATICS FOR PLANNERS	COMPULSORY	2	2	0	7
G	3	FBE 5555	SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH TECHNIQUES AND PUBLICATION ETHICS	COMPULSORY	3	0	0	5
G	4	PLN 5098	M.SC. RESEARCH	COMPULSORY	2	0	0	3
G	0	-	ELECTIVE COURSE	ELECTIVE	-	-	-	2
TOTAL:								30

1 .Semester Elective:
Semester	No	Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type of Course	T	P	L	ECTS
G	1	PLN 5013	TECHNIQUES OF PROJECT EVALUATION	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	5
G	2	PLN 5101	CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	5
G	3	PLN 5017	NEW SETTLEMENTS	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	6
G	4	PLN 5023	HOUSING	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	5
G	5	PLN 5037	CAPITAL ACCUMULATION RELATIONS IN PLANNING	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	5
G	6	PLN 6015	EXAMINATION OF PLANNING CONCEPTS	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	5
G	7	PLN 5051	APPLIED STATISTICS FOR PLANNERS	ELECTIVE	2	2	0	6
G	8	PLN 5041	NEW POLICIES - NEW DYNAMICS IN THE LOCAL AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	6
G	9	PLN 5045	URBAN AND URBAN SYSTEMS	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	6
G	10	PLN 5053	ECONOMIC STRUCTURE OF URBAN AREAS	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	5
G	11	PLN 5055	LEGAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE ASPECTS OF URBAN PLANNING	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	5
G	12	PLN 5057	PLANNING TECHNIQUES	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	5
G	13	PLN 5061	RURAL TRANSFORMATION AND VILLAGE STUDIES	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	4
G	14	PLN 5063	RURAL AREAS, AGRICULTURE PROBLEM AND CAPITALISM	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	4
G	15	PLN 5087	METROPOLITAN PLANNING	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	6
G	16	PLN 5059	HOUSING PROBLEM IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	5
G	17	PLN 5065	ENVIRONMENTAL AESTHETICS	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	6
G	18	PLN 5069	RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS METHODS IN PLANNING	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	5
G	19	PLN 5089	USING INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN CITY PLANNING	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	6
G	20	PLN 5091	SOCIOLOGY OF SPACE	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	4
G	21	PLN 5015	RESOURCES, ENVIRONMENT AND POLLUTION	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	5

2 .Semester:
Semester	No	Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type of Course	T	P	L	ECTS
B	1	PLN 5096	M.SC. SEMINAR	COMPULSORY	0	2	0	3
B	2	PLN 5070	PLANNNING THEORY	COMPULSORY	2	0	0	5
B	3	PLN 5068	URBAN PLANNING STUDIO	COMPULSORY	4	4	0	14
B	0	-	ELECTIVE COURSE	ELECTIVE	-	-	-	8
TOTAL:								30

2 .Semester Elective:
Semester	No	Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type of Course	T	P	L	ECTS
B	1	PLN 5016	RURAL PLANNING	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	5
B	2	PLN 5080	DISASTER AND RISK MANAGEMENT IN URBAN PLANNING	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	5
B	3	PLN 5022	ECOLOGICAL PLANNING	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	6
B	4	PLN 5024	RECREATION AND PLANNING	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	6
B	5	PLN 5028	TOWNSCAPE ON ROUTES	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	5
B	6	PLN 5030	SOCIAL POLICY IN PLANNING	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	5
B	7	PLN 5048	MODERNITY, POSTMODERNITY, CITY AND SPACE	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	5
B	8	PLN 6016	SUSTAINABILITY AND PHYSICAL PLANNING	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	6
B	9	PLN 6018	THEORY AND ACTION RELATIONSHIP IN PLANNING	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	6
B	10	PLN 6020	OTHERS AND PHYSICAL PLANNING	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	6
B	11	PLN 5050	ORAL HISTORY OF SPACE	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	5
B	12	PLN 5052	THE STRUCTURE OF SMALL SCALE INDUSTRIAL PORDUCTION	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	6
B	13	PLN 5056	ECOLOGICAL DISCOURSES AND PLANNING	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	5
B	14	CON 5082	NATURE CONSERVATION AND PLANNING	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	5
B	15	PLN 5060	TECHN.OF CONS.OF HIST.URBAN ENVIRONMENT	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	6
B	16	PLN 5062	PLANNING OF IND.DEV.IN URBAN AREAS	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	6
B	17	PLN 5064	PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN URBAN PLANNING	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	5
B	18	PLN 5066	URBAN GROWTH AND FRINGE PLANNING	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	6
B	19	PLN 5072	TRANSPORTATION DEMAND MODELING WITHIN THE URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING FRAMEWORK	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	5
B	20	PLN 5074	INFRASTRUCTURE IN REGIONAL AND URBAN PLANNING	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	5
B	21	PLN 5076	INFORMATION SYSTEMS FOR TRANSPORTATION	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	3
B	22	PLN 5078	TRAFFIC INDUCED NOISE AND VIBRATION	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	3
B	23	PLN 5018	URBAN DESIGN	ELECTIVE	0	4	0	5

3 .Semester:
Semester	No	Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type of Course	T	P	L	ECTS
B	0	-	ELECTIVE COURSE	ELECTIVE	-	-	-	30
TOTAL:								30

3 .Semester Elective:
Semester	No	Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type of Course	T	P	L	ECTS

Examination Regulations, Assessment and Grading

Related items of Dokuz Eylul University Regulations of Graduate Education and Exams and related items of Institute of Natural and Applied Sciences Regulations of Education and Code of Practicing Exams are applied for the exams and course grades.
The course evaluation criteria are defined for each course by the instructor(s) of the corresponding course and are given in the Course Description Form found in the information package.

Graduation Requirements

Second Cycle (Master's Degree) Programme with thesis is comprised of courses (at least 54 ECTS), M. Sc. seminar (3 ECTS), M. Sc. Research (3 ECTS) and M. Sc. Thesis (60 ECTS), in total 120 ECTS credits. Students must have minimum Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 2.50 / 4.00 and completed all the courses with at least CB / S / TP grades.

Mode of Study (Full-Time, Part-Time, E-Learning )

Full-time

Programme Director or Equivalent

Head of the Department: Prof.Dr.Hülya KOÇ
Phone : +90 (232) 301 84 79 / +90 (232) 301 84 64
e-mail: hulya.koc@deu.edu.tr
Adres: D.E.Ü. Mimarlık Fakültesi Şehir ve Bölge Planlama Bölümü
Tınaztepe Yerleşkesi Doğuş Cad. No:209 35160 Buca/ İZMİR

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