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Course Name	Turkish	Peyzaj Mimarlığında Sosyal Araştırmalar
	English	Social Studies in Landsc.Arc.
Course Code	PEM 618E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	-	3	3	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Melih Bozkurt
Course Objectives		1. To discuss theoretical foundations of research that specifically researching social sub-groups such as children, disabled, elderly etc. 2. To discuss how criteria such as gender, ethnicity and socio-economic background affects landscape perception and use. 3. To show active use of remote sensing and GIS application in the case of social research subjects and their analysis. 4. To develop skills to transfer this social knowledge to landscape design practice. 5. To promote required tools and their use for creating social interaction with locals in scientific research or landscape design practice area, in order to collect data and develop analysis about social context of an area.
Course Description		This course aims to show and discuss theoretical social studies to post-graduate students and discuss how this theoretical knowledge implies to landscape architecture research and practice using several case study areas. Moreover, it was also aimed to show students how this theoretical knowledge can be transferred to social base research or landscape design practice.
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