DEGREE PROGRAMMES

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

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

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