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 September 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

Ph. D. in City and Regional Planning

Level of Qualification

Third Cycle (Doctorate Degree)

Specific Admission Requirements

Second Cycle Degree in the same or in related disciplines. Acceptable score on ALES (Academic Personnel and Graduate Education Entrance Exam) or Equivalent GRE, GMAT score. Acceptable score on Language Proficiency Tests. Acceptable weighted score based on the first or second cycle (with thesis) cumulative grade point average (GPA) and ALES score. However, ALES requirement is waived for the graduates of doctorate /arts proficiency/medical residency/ dental residency/ veterinary residency/ pharmaceutical residency programs as well as for the admissions to the graduate programs offered by the Conservatory and the departments of Fine Arts Faculty, where students are admitted only by the Artistic Aptitude Test. Final admission is based on the evaluation of the related academic unit committee. International student admission requirements are decided by the Graduate School Executive Committee.

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

4 years, 2 semesters per year, 16 weeks per semester, 240 ECTS in total.

Profile of the Programme

The program focuses on the subjects of City and Regional Planning at the centre, and also other fields of science (Architecture, Urban Design and Landscape Architecture, Economics, Sociology, Law, Political Science and Public Administration, Geography, etc.). It is focused on the planning field-based evaluation of common issues among other fields of science related to city and regional planning.
Attributes of the program, such as accreditation, distinguishing it from its counterparts:
- The programme provides full-time and daytime education with a total of twenty-four faculty members.
- It has a project-oriented course program.
- The education programme is supported by internships.
- The studies produced in the project courses cover the in-depth research process and the information produced by the students within the scope of the course is directly used in the project studies.
- The final projects are evaluated by the jury system.
- One-to-one relationships can be established with the student in the project courses, and thus, different options can be produced on an individual basis by discussing with each student during the project courses due to the nature of the education in the department.
- On the one hand, theory-practice integration can be achieved, on the other hand, knowledge can be transformed into an experience, through Revolving Funds and Research Projects.
- It has an interdisciplinary structure in terms of profession. This is reflected in the department's education program.
- It contributes to the transformation of the spatial environments created by rapid urbanization into liveable environments and to the production of alternative solutions to the existing spatial functioning.
- It provides an education for understanding current economic, social, and cultural practices, while developing new options based on potential.
- It trains qualified people and urban planners who are sensitive to human, nature, and cultural processes, have professional knowledge and skills and have professional ethics.
- It makes research to reveal the functioning of the urban system, to understand what processes the problems are related to, and to reveal clues about the place so that vulnerable segments of society can achieve fairer living conditions.
- It produces information about the city and can convey this information to relevant institutions, organizations, and society.
Facilities Offered by the Department to Students, such as laboratory and technical facilities:
- Computer laboratory (36 desktop computers)
- Projection system in the classrooms where the theoretical lessons are taught (5 units)
- Drawing desks in the studios reserved for project lessons (6 units)
- 1 mobile projector,
- 2 large and 2 small laptops to be used in lessons,
- 1 microphone + headphone system to be used in lessons,
- 5 hand-GPS, licensed Geomedia, licensed Netcad program
- 1 thesis and project archive and department library,
- 1 conference hall for 280 people in the faculty,
- There is a Computer Specialist and a Photography Specialist in the Faculty.

Percentage of Courses Taught in English: %30

Key Learning Outcomes

1	Ability to comprehend the interaction between planning and other disciplines to develop analytical evaluations and derive original results.
2	Ability to develop a new scientific technique or to adopt a known technique to planning and to bring novelty in urban planning.
3	Developing contemporary and advanced level theoretical approaches and searches in urban planning through original thought and research.
4	Ability to use and interpret different knowledge types in developing original problem solving techniques in planning.
5	Evaluation of the effects of development decisions on space in terms of planning processes.
6	Evaluation of the sustainability concept together with its subcomponents and development of the pertaining knowledge.
7	Ability to analyze, synthesize and evaluate critically the natural, social, economic, cultural and political processes.
8	Achieving the knowledge pertaining to the principals of using natural and physical resources.
9	Ability to develop models to relate economic components to public utility and use economic components for common good.
10	Ability to recognize and apply the basics of cost-benefit analysis and control.
11	Graphical representation ability to support visual communication (Ability to represent each phase of analysis, synthesis and design formally.).
12	Written and spoken communication ability including following literature in foreign languages and expressing ideas academically in discussions.
13	Gaining the ability to criticise and evaluate urban planning analytically as a field of data generation and implementation, thinking on different paradigms, searches for new solutions.

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 post doctorate programmes.

Course Structure Diagram with Credits

Semester	No	Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Course Unit Type	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
ALL COURSES
Z	1	PLN 5013	TECHNIQUES OF PROJECT EVALUATION	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	5
Z	2	PLN 5080	DISASTER AND RISK MANAGEMENT IN URBAN PLANNING	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	5
Z	3	PLN 5016	RURAL PLANNING	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	5
Z	4	PLN 5017	NEW SETTLEMENTS	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	6
Z	5	PLN 5018	URBAN DESIGN	ELECTIVE	0	4	0	5
Z	6	PLN 5022	ECOLOGICAL PLANNING	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	6
Z	7	PLN 5023	HOUSING	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	5
Z	8	PLN 5024	RECREATION AND PLANNING	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	6
Z	9	PLN 5028	TOWNSCAPE ON ROUTES	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	5
Z	10	PLN 5030	SOCIAL POLICY IN PLANNING	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	5
Z	11	PLN 5037	CAPITAL ACCUMULATION RELATIONS IN PLANNING	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	5
Z	12	PLN 5048	MODERNITY, POSTMODERNITY, CITY AND SPACE	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	5
Z	13	PLN 6015	EXAMINATION OF PLANNING CONCEPTS	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	5
Z	14	PLN 6016	SUSTAINABILITY AND PHYSICAL PLANNING	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	6
Z	15	PLN 6018	THEORY AND ACTION RELATIONSHIP IN PLANNING	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	6
Z	16	PLN 6020	OTHERS AND PHYSICAL PLANNING	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	6
Z	17	PLN 5015	RESOURCES, ENVIRONMENT AND POLLUTION	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	5
Z	18	PLN 5101	CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	5
Z	19	PLN 5093	APPLIED MATHEMATICS FOR PLANNERS	ELECTIVE	2	2	0	7
Z	20	PLN 5091	SOCIOLOGY OF SPACE	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	4
Z	21	PLN 5089	USING INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN CITY PLANNING	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	6
Z	22	PLN 5074	INFRASTRUCTURE IN REGIONAL AND URBAN PLANNING	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	5
Z	23	PLN 5072	TRANSPORTATION DEMAND MODELING WITHIN THE URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING FRAMEWORK	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	5
Z	24	PLN 5070	PLANNNING THEORY	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	5
Z	25	PLN 5050	ORAL HISTORY OF SPACE	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	5
Z	26	PLN 5051	APPLIED STATISTICS FOR PLANNERS	ELECTIVE	2	2	0	6
Z	27	PLN 5041	NEW POLICIES - NEW DYNAMICS IN THE LOCAL AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	6
Z	28	PLN 5045	URBAN AND URBAN SYSTEMS	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	6
Z	29	PLN 5052	THE STRUCTURE OF SMALL SCALE INDUSTRIAL PORDUCTION	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	6
Z	30	PLN 5056	ECOLOGICAL DISCOURSES AND PLANNING	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	5
Z	31	PLN 5053	ECONOMIC STRUCTURE OF URBAN AREAS	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	5
Z	32	PLN 5055	LEGAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE ASPECTS OF URBAN PLANNING	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	5
Z	33	PLN 5057	PLANNING TECHNIQUES	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	5
Z	34	PLN 5061	RURAL TRANSFORMATION AND VILLAGE STUDIES	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	4
Z	35	PLN 5063	RURAL AREAS, AGRICULTURE PROBLEM AND CAPITALISM	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	4
Z	36	PLN 5087	METROPOLITAN PLANNING	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	6
Z	37	PLN 5059	HOUSING PROBLEM IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	5
Z	38	PLN 5065	ENVIRONMENTAL AESTHETICS	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	6
Z	39	PLN 5067	URBAN PLANNING RESEARCH	ELECTIVE	4	4	0	13
Z	40	PLN 5060	TECHN.OF CONS.OF HIST.URBAN ENVIRONMENT	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	6
Z	41	PLN 5062	PLANNING OF IND.DEV.IN URBAN AREAS	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	6
Z	42	PLN 5064	PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN URBAN PLANNING	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	5
Z	43	PLN 5066	URBAN GROWTH AND FRINGE PLANNING	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	6
Z	44	PLN 5068	URBAN PLANNING STUDIO	ELECTIVE	4	4	0	14
Z	45	PLN 5076	INFORMATION SYSTEMS FOR TRANSPORTATION	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	3
Z	46	CON 5082	NATURE CONSERVATION AND PLANNING	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	5
Z	47	PLN 5069	RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS METHODS IN PLANNING	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	5
Z	48	PLN 5078	TRAFFIC INDUCED NOISE AND VIBRATION	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	3
B	49	PLN 6094	PH.D. SEMINAR	SEMINAR	0	3	0	5
B	50	FBE 6666	PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE AND ETHICS	REQUIRED	3	0	0	5
B	51	PLN 6099	PH.D. THESIS	THESIS	0	0	0	150
B	52	PLN 6098	PH.D. RESEARCH	EXPERTNESS	3	0	0	9

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

Third Cycle (Doctor of Philosophy) Programme is comprised of courses (at least 67 ECTS),Ph.D.Seminar (5 ECTS), Ph. D. Research (18 ECTS) / Ph. D. Thesis (150 ECTS) courses, thesis proposal, doctoral qualifying examination and thesis examination with a total credit of 240 ECTS. 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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