Students who finish this program with success get the title of "Urban Planner".
Students who finish this program with success get Bachelor Degree in Urban and Regional Program (Physical Sciences).
High school diploma and placement through a centralized national university placement examination, Student Selection Exam, are required to apply the bachelor programs of Atatürk University. Please visit www.osym.gov.tr for more information. The provisions in the related prescription of Atatürk Üniversity for international students are applied.
Admission can be made from the institutions of which equivalency is recognized by Higher Education Council. Successful vocational school graduates to continue their education to obtain Bachelor’s degrees if they are successful in vertical transfer examination are also admitted. The courses to be taken by these students are determined by the relevant department, on the basis of courses they have completed in the programs in vocational school from which they have graduated. Recognition of prior non-formal and in-formal learning is at the beginning stage in Turkish Higher Education Institutions. Ataturk University and thus the department is not an exception to this. However, exams of exemption are organized at the start of each year at the University for the courses of English Language. The students who achieve a passing grade from the exam are held exempt from the related course in the curriculum.
Students must be successfull and/or pass all courses on the programme including graduation thesis and internship that are explained education and exam regulation of Ataturk University.
Two types of lectures are given in the program; i.e. theoretical and operative courses. This bachelor program lasts for four years. Students have to finish 52 courses, 11 of which are given as compulsory due to the Higher Education Institute's instructions. 8 of other 41 courses are elective courses.
The operative courses, studios, involves field research and operative works with required scales that changes according to the needs of education for each class. Settlements are the laboratories of Urban and Regional Planning Program. So, in each studio, the students visit a settlement selected by the coordinator of the studio for approximately one week for the field research. Participation in these field research is compulsory for all students taking the course. Moreover, these studio courses (Project courses) are subject to special evaluation. Thus, the courses named Planning Studio II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VII and 'Mesleki Uygulamalar' have prerequisite; which means students should be successful in the course to take the next one.
The lectures in the program necessitate the development of using computer-aided tools. So, there is a computer laboratory in the department which supports the ability to use the related programs.
Urban Planner, Regional Planner
The graduates holding Bachelor’s Degree are eligible to apply to Master’s Degree programmes at national level and /or international level both in the same and in related disciplines if they can meet other required conditions; such as getting enough scores from 'academic personnel and postgraduate education entrance exam' and a foreign language exam (English generally) as defined by each graduate programme. Students who are high honor students are also eligible to apply for a doctorate degree at Ataturk University.
For each course assessment and grading is described in Syllabus in details. Grades are assessed through relative assessment system. Assessment is done according to the Education and Examination Regulation of Ataturk University and Faculty of Agriculture.
Students must take and pass all necessary courses, graduation thesis and internship listed in curriculum totaling 240 ECTS credits and reach a minimum grade point average (GPA) of 2,0. Besides, students should be successful from the courses defined in their program; taking minimum DD from the theoric lectures CC from Studio Lectures. Students should also complete all internships in determined time and properties
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