COURSE UNIT TITLE

: EXAMINATION OF PLANNING CONCEPTS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
PLN 6015 EXAMINATION OF PLANNING CONCEPTS ELECTIVE 2 0 0 5

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR MERCAN EFE GÜNEY

Offered to

M.Sc. City and Regional Planning
City and Regional Planning (Non-Thesis)
City and Regional Planning
City and Regional Planning

Course Objective

This course aims to examine the basic concepts related to physical planning. The concepts may have different definitions under different conditions. Upon completion of the course, the student should be able to compare the use of these concepts in everyday life and in the literature, understand the potential effect of these concepts on social power.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   to list the elements in concept of planning, urban design, rural development and environment
2   to describe urbanization
3   to interpret the emergence of sustainability, restoration, natural site and cultural site
4   to analyze the importance of elements in urbanization and their interaction
5   to integrate the features of nature with urban production and the impacts of one upon the other
6   to evaluate the importance of nature and ecological planning in formation of urban areas

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Concepts of planning urban planning rural planning
2 Space
3 Public benefit social benefit
4 Ecology natural ecology deep ecology urban ecology social ecology etc.
5 Sustainability
6 Conservation in situ natural conservation site urban conservation site
7 Consciousness of Nature
8 Energy ecologic energy
9 Presentation of Term Paper
10 Recreation physiological recreation psychic recreation social recreation
11 State of being organized in physical planning organized industrial zone organized tourism zone organized greenhouse zone
12 Human, self and the other
13 Modernism - Postmodernism
14 Discussion on Term paper presentations

Recomended or Required Reading

Supplementary Book(s): - All documents which are about concepts
- Researches and thesis
- Current articles

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

The course is conducted as lectures, discussions and presentations.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 PRS PRESENTATION
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE PRS * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) PRS * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Listing and describing activities are evaluated by the Presentation. Analysis, Integration, Interpretation and Evaluation activities are assessed by the Take Home which represents the Final Exam.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

The course will continue in the form of conference presentations and discussions. Question-answer technique will also be used to increase students' interest / motivation for the lesson.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

mercan.efe@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Monday 10:30-12:00, Friday 10:30:12:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparing assignments 1 25 25
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 7 5 35
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Preparing presentations 2 8 16
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 124

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13
LO.11
LO.21
LO.31
LO.41
LO.51
LO.61

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