Architecture Integrated Doctorate Program
General Description
Bursa University Faculty of Mechanical Engineering was founded in 1976. Following educational reorganization in 1982 it was renamed as Uludag University Faculty of Engineering. In 1993, after the decision of the establishment of the Department of Architecture the name of the Faculty was changed as Uludag University Faculty of Engineering and Architecture. In the 2011-2012 academic year, The Faculty has eight departments. These are Architecture, Mechanical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Textile Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Automotive Engineering and Civil Engineering Departments.
In 1994 the Department of Architecture started to provide a four-year B-Arch, in 2000 a Master’s Degree Program, and in 2005 a Ph.D. Program. In the 1994-1995 academic year, 20 students were accepted at the undergraduate level, but the student quota was increased to 57 in the 2011-2012 academic year. In the 2010-2011 academic year 276 students have been educated in the Department of Architecture.
The Department of Architecture, is subject to the first cycle degree system of higher education in the field of Architecture Science that has 240 ECTS credits. If the program is successfully completed and the program qualifications are met, the students shall have a phd.degree in Science of Architecture.
Third Cycle
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Specific Admission Requirements
Specific Admission Requirements for Bachelor Degree:
Candidates must have high school diploma Candidates must obtain the required scores on the examinations called Transition to Higher Education Examination (YGS) and Undergraduate Placement Examination (LYS) administred by Student Selection and Placement Center (ÖSYM)
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Specific arrangements for the recognition of prior learning
The provisions in “Regulation on Transfer among Associate and Undergraduate Degree Programs, Double Major, and Subspecialty and the Principals of Credit Transfer among Institutions in Higher Education Institutions” are applied.
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Qualification Requirements and Regulations
Students have to succeed in required compulsory, elective courses and summer practices totally 240 ECTS credits determined in the educational plan of the Department of Architecture and their CGPAs have to be at least 2.00 in order to receive a graduate diploma
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Profile of The Programme
The aim of the program is to bring up architects who have professional knowledge and capability for taking an effective role in the formation and transformation of the physical environment; can work in harmony within a team which consists of members from different disciplines, have the ability of making analysis, synthesis and interpretation; have awareness on the necessity of lifetime learning and have architectural professional responsibility and ethical values.
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Key Learning Outcomes & Classified & Comparative
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To gain advanced knowledge, understanding and the ability to make comments in order to do original research on different fields like methods and theories of architecture and urban design, IT-design computing, architectural expression, building components, building materials, building production and management, architectural history and theory and restoration through the basis of the competences acquired at the graduate level.
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To have enough knowledge about different fields like engineering, social sciences, other arts, zoning law, landscape and urban design contributing to the development of theoretical and practical background of the architectural profession.
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To have the most advanced skills and techniques including synthesis and evaluation, to identify a problem in the fields of research and / or innovation, to solve important problems, to expand and to re-identify the existing knowledge or professional practice.
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To have mastery of using related research strategies, tactics and techniques.
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To demonstrate a remarkable authority, innovation, independency, academic and professional honesty and determination during the development of new ideas or processes.
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To exhibit leadership and innovation during working and learning conditions that require the solution of problems involving a lot of new, complex and unpredictable factors related to each other.
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To gain the ability to analyze, to evaluate and to synthesize new and complex ideas that correspond to the most advanced level in the research field through a critical and dialectical approach.
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To contribute to the development of knowledge in the field of architecture by making high-quality works based on original research and papers worth publishing in national and international refereed journals.
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Except mother tongue, to be able to do in speaking and writing a different language at level B2 in the European Language Portfolio.
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To gain the ability to support the development of social, scientific, cultural and ethical values, to contribute to the solution of problems and to take an active role in decision-making processes in the field of architecture.
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Occupational Profiles of Graduates With Examples
Graduates of Architecture Program generally works in sectors outlined below:
Institutions subordinate to Municipalities and Ministry of Housing and Urban Development
Architectural, urban planning, engineering and building audit offices
Construction sites of the above-mentioned offices,
Furniture, interior design and building material firms,
In universities as academicians,
Chamber of architects,
Construction departments in factories, etc.
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Access to Further Studies
Candidates who completed bachelor degree successfully, passed ALES examination and proved to have sufficient knowledge of foreign language are eligible to study in graduate programmes.
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Examination Regulations, Assessment and Grading
In order for the student to be considered successful in the relevant course, student must complete the courses and get at least 100 from the exams and get 70 points.
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Graduation Requirements
In order to complete the program, students must successfully pass all the courses determined in the programme (300 ECTS), have minimum 2.0 average grade out of 4.00, succeed in graduation project and complete summer practice (office and construction site).
Full-Time
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Address and Contact Details
Bölüm Başkanı Prof. Dr. Selen Durak
Bologna Koordinatörü: Doç.Dr. Zuhal Şimşek
Adres :Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi,Mühendislik Mimarlık Fakültesi, Mimarlık Bölümü, 16059
Görükle Kampüsü, Bursa
E-posta: mimar@uludag.edu.tr
Tel: 0-224-2942133
As for the 2011-2012 academic year, Department of Architecture includes 10 professor, 6 associate professors, 1 instructors with Ph.D, 10 research assistants.
Department of Architecture started academic activities in 1994-95 and facilitated in the central building of Faculty of Engineering and Architecture and in the building of Environmental Engineering Department until January 1998. In October 1, 1998 the department began to facilitate in its own building officially. The building of Department of Architecture has three stories with 3568 sqm. enclosed area (ground floor: 1428 sqm, first floor: 1200 sqm; roof level: 940 sqm) and an interior open courtyard with 359 sqm. There are four studio spaces; one multi-purpose hall in roof level for seminars, workshops and exhibition activities; one computer laboratory; one material laboratory; one seminar hall; two classrooms; one room for archive; one room for community-use; one canteen and rooms of administrative and academic staff.
