1	Course Title:	THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES IN ENVIRONMENT-BEHAVIOR RESEARCH
2	Course Code:	MIM6053
3	Type of Course:	Optional
4	Level of Course:	Third Cycle
5	Year of Study:	1
6	Semester:	1
7	ECTS Credits Allocated:	6
8	Theoretical (hour/week):	3
9	Practice (hour/week) :	0
10	Laboratory (hour/week) :	0
11	Prerequisites:	-
12	Recommended optional programme components:	None
13	Language:	Turkish
14	Mode of Delivery:	Face to face
15	Course Coordinator:	Prof. Dr. ARZU ÇAHANTİMUR
16	Course Lecturers:	-
17	Contactinformation of the Course Coordinator:	arzucahan@uludağ.edu.tr
18	Website:
19	Objective of the Course:	To understand the reciprocal interrelationships between environment and behaviour, which are very important for architectural and urban design, and to learn its features and compounds.
20	Contribution of the Course to Professional Development	In the scope of this course, the students will get in dept information about the criteria that will let them to design for increasing quality of life.

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Learning Outcomes:

1 Gain the ability of analyzing human-environment relationships; 2 Gain the ability of using human-environment relationships as a parameter in design;

22	Course Content:

Week	Theoretical	Practical
1	Presentation of environment-behavior studies and researchers
2	Changing approaches to studying the person-environment relationship
3	Behavioral Approaches to Environmental Design
4	Ecological Approaches to Environmental Design
5	Experience of Place (E. Relph, 1976, Place and Placelessness)
6	Theories of Spatial Behavior
7	William Whyte “The social life of Small Urban Spaces”
8	Keith Hampton “ The Social Life in Digital Age”
9	Kevin Lynch “Image of the City”
10	Oscar Newman “Defensible Space”
11	Personal Space-Territoriality
12	Place and Place Making
13	Universal Design 1
14	Universal Design 2

23	Textbooks, References and/or Other Materials:	Andrea Dean (1989). The architect and society. Architecture. July. 78:7. pp. 50-53. Göregenli M (2010) Çevre Psikolojisi: İnsan Mekan İlişkileri. Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları. (Title: Environmental Psychology: Human-Space Relationship. Translated manuscript not available). Lynch K (1960) The Image of the City, MIT, USA. Oscar Newman (1980). Whose failure is modern architecture? In B. Mikellides (Ed.). Architecture for People. New York: Holt. Rinehart & Winston. pp. 44-58. Stokols D & Altman I (1991) Handbook of Environmental Psychology. Krieger Pub Co. Nasar, J.L. (1998). The elements of likability pp. 59-80 in The Evaluative Image of the City. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Newman, Oscar (1973) Defensible Space, New York: Macmillan. Norberg-Schulz, Christian (1988) Architecture: Meaning and Place, New York: Rizzoli. Gehl, Jan (1987) Life between Buildings. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold. Hall, Edward (1966) The Hidden Dimension, New York: Doubleday. Jan Gehl & Birgitte Svarre, How to Study Public Life (2013) William Whyte, The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (1980, 2001) Hassan Fathy, Architecture For the Poor (1973, 2001) Christopher Alexander, A Pattern Language (NY: Oxford Univ. Press, 1977; multiple printings). Donald Norman. Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things (NY: Basic Bks., 2004). Thomas Thiis-Evensen, Archetypes in Architecture (NY: Oxford Univ. Press, 1989 & reprints).
24	Assesment

TERM LEARNING ACTIVITIES	NUMBER	PERCENT
Midterm Exam	1	10
Quiz	0	0
Homeworks, Performances	2	30
Final Exam	1	60
Total	4	100
Contribution of Term (Year) Learning Activities to Success Grade		40
Contribution of Final Exam to Success Grade		60
Total		100
Measurement and Evaluation Techniques Used in the Course	Interactive Interaction Deep learning Continuous measurement and evaluation
Information	Interactive Interaction Deep learning Continuous measurement and evaluation Digital teaching tools

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ECTS / WORK LOAD TABLE

Activites	NUMBER	TIME [Hour]	Total WorkLoad [Hour]
Theoretical	14	3	42
Practicals/Labs	0	0	0
Self Study and Preparation	0	0	0
Homeworks, Performances	2	15	45
Projects	0	0	0
Field Studies	0	0	0
Midtermexams	1	40	40
Others	0	0	0
Final Exams	1	60	60
Total WorkLoad			187
Total workload/ 30 hr			6,23
ECTS Credit of the Course			6

26	CONTRIBUTION OF LEARNING OUTCOMES TO PROGRAMME QUALIFICATIONS
PQ1 PQ2 PQ3 PQ4 PQ5 PQ6 PQ7 PQ8 PQ9 PQ10 LO1 5 5 5 5 4 4 4 4 3 3 LO2 5 5 5 5 4 4 4 4 3 3

LO: Learning Objectives

PQ: Program Qualifications

Contribution Level:

1 Very Low

2 Low

3 Medium

4 High

5 Very High