2019-2020 ACADEMIC YEAR
PhD in ARCHITECTURE PROGRAM CURRICULUM
1st TERM
Code | Course Name | Credit | ECTS |
UFND 5500 | Research Methods & Ethics | 3-0-3 | 8 |
ARCH 5601 | Interdisciplinary Discourses in Architecture | 3-0-3 | 8 |
– | Elective 1 | 3-0-3 | 8 |
– | Elective 2 | 3-0-3 | 8 |
Total Credits | – | 12 | 32 |
2nd TERM
Code | Course Name | Credit | ECTS |
ARCH 5690 | Seminar | 0-0-0 | 4 |
– | Elective 3 | 3-0-3 | 8 |
– | Elective 4 | 3-0-3 | 8 |
– | Elective 5 | 3-0-3 | 8 |
Total Credits | – | 9 | 28 |
3rd TERM
Code | Course Name | Credit | ECTS |
ARCH 5699 | PhD Thesis | 0-0-0 | 30 |
Total Credits | – | – | 30 |
4th TERM
Code | Course Name | Credit | ECTS |
ARCH 5699 | PhD Thesis | 0-0-0 | 30 |
Total Credits | – | – | 30 |
5th TERM
Code | Course Name | Credit | ECTS |
ARCH 5699 | PhD Thesis | 0-0-0 | 30 |
Total Credits | – | – | 30 |
6th TERM
Code | Course Name | Credit | ECTS |
ARCH 5699 | PhD Thesis | 0-0-0 | 30 |
Total Credits | – | – | 30 |
7th TERM
Code | Course Name | Credit | ECTS |
ARCH 5699 | PhD Thesis | 0-0-0 | 30 |
Total Credits | – | – | 30 |
8th TERM
Code | Course Name | Credit | ECTS |
ARCH 5699 | PhD Thesis | 0-0-0 | 30 |
Total Credits | – | – | 30 |
CURRICULUM NOTES
1. Maximum two courses in other master programs of the Institute or maximum two courses offered in other higher education institutions can be taken with the Advisor’s approval.
2. Courses offered in the Master with and without thesis programs in Architecture Department can be taken without any limitation.
3. Students who successfully complete course credits (at the end of second semester as earliest and at the end of fourth semester as latest) are entitled to take Doctoral Proficiency Exam. A Thesis Monitoring Committee is formed for each student who has become successful in Doctoral Proficiency Exam. The committee takes the student to Thesis Proposal Defense within six months.
4. Only the students who fulfill the publication requirement defined by the Institute of Natural and Applied Sciences are entitled to present their work to PhD Thesis Jury.
COMPULSORY COURSES
Code | Course Name | Credit | ECTS |
UFND 5500 | Research Methods & Ethics | 3-0-3 | 8 |
ARCH 5601 | Interdisciplinary Discourses in Architecture* | 3-0-3 | 8 |
ARCH 5690 | PhD Seminar* | 0-0-0 | 4 |
ARCH 5699 | PhD Thesis* | 0-0-0 | 30 |
*Compulsory Course in the field of Architecture
ELECTIVES
Code | Course Name | Credit | ECTS |
ARCH 5500 | Erasmus Student Placement | 0-0-0 | 8 |
ARCH 5550 | Contemporary Urban Cultures | 3-0-3 | 8 |
ARCH 5552 | Building and Energy | 3-0-3 | 8 |
ARCH 5553 | Design Process and Strategies in Architecture | 3-0-3 | 8 |
ARCH 5555 | Building Lifecycle Cost Assessment | 3-0-3 | 8 |
ARCH 5557 | Technology and Architecture | 3-0-3 | 8 |
ARCH 5560 | Architecture and Modernity | 3-0-3 | 8 |
Code | Course Name | Credit | ECTS |
ARCH 5564 | Contemporary Theories in Architecture | 3-0-3 | 8 |
ARCH 5565 | Memory and Architecture | 3-0-3 | 8 |
ARCH 5566 | Virtual Design and Construction | 3-0-3 | 8 |
ARCH 5561 | Sustainable Facades | 3-0-3 | 8 |
ARCH 5571 | Building Rating Systems | 3-0-3 | 8 |
ARCH 5572 | Freeform in Architecture | 3-0-3 | 8 |
ARCH 5573 | Transformable Facades and Structures | 3-0-3 | 8 |
ARCH 5574 | Extreme Architecture | 3-0-3 | 8 |
ARCH 5579 | Design Workshop | 3-0-3 | 8 |
ARCH 5580 | Spatial Practices | 3-0-3 | 8 |
ARCH 5591 | Advanced Computational Design | 3-0-3 | 8 |
ARCH 5593 | Architectural Design of Structures | 3-0-3 | 8 |
ARCH 5595 | Advanced Design Environments | 3-0-3 | 8 |
INAR 5562 | Home, Culture and Design | 3-0-3 | 8 |
INAR 5572 | Introduction to IEQ | 3-0-3 | 8 |
ARCH 5602 | Architectural Research Design | 3-0-3 | 8 |
ARCH 5611 | Space and Digital Culture | 3-0-3 | 8 |
ARCH 5613 | Climate Change and Design | 3-0-3 | 8 |
ARCH 5614 | The Architecture of Change | 3-0-3 | 8 |
ARCH 5615 | Emergency Shelters | 3-0-3 | 8 |
ARCH 5616 | Structural Morphology in Architecture | 3-0-3 | 8 |
ARCH 5617 | Interdisciplinary Studies on Space and Gender | 3-0-3 | 8 |
ARCH 5618 | Space Syntax Analysis | 3-0-3 | 8 |
ARCH 5619 | Architecture, Theory and Culture | 3-0-3 | 8 |
ARCH 5620 | Emerging Topics in Architecture | 3-0-3 | 8 |
ARCH 5630 | Reading Architecture | 3-0-3 | 8 |
ARCH 5631 | Computational Structural Design | 3-0-3 | 8 |
ARCH 5691 | Guided Research | 3-0-3 | 8 |