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 Düzce University Faculty of Forestry Department of Landscape Architecture started education and training in Düzce in 1994. As of 2021, approximately 800 people graduated from our undergraduate and 69 graduate programs and started to create value in different provinces of Turkey.

In our department, by 2021, 11 faculty members (4 professors, 5 associate professors, 2 assistant professors) and 8 research assistants continue their academic and scientific activities, and by 2021, approximately 424 full text papers (national-international), 363 articles (national-international), 31 in-book chapters / books (national-international), 108 awards (national-international), 119 projects (national-international) were produced.

 

Landscape Architects who have completed the Landscape Architecture program,

·         Producing ecological based plan decisions for spatial plans (regional plans, spatial strategy plans, master and implementation development plans, etc.),

·         Developing recommendations for healthy living and access to food, resilience, climate change management, rural / urban development and technology use in planning and design approaches regarding sustainable resource management,

·         With suggestions to be developed for the holistic perception, planning, design and creation of management models of processes within the landscape in the context of spatial / temporal scale in the effects, pressures and changes faced by the geography experienced,

·         In the planning of open green space systems, in the development of blue and green infrastructure systems,

·         In reducing the global impact of carbon emissions and climate change and in adapting,

·         Crisis management in order to ensure the continuity of ecosystems and services, to ensure disaster-resistant urban development,

·         In the protection and management of our usable water resources,

·         For the protection and repair of our natural, cultural and historical areas,

·         With suggestions to be made regarding mines and quarries, river and sea coasts, highways, solid waste storage areas, noise pollution, air, soil and water pollution,

·         To protect the environment we live in and to increase our natural areas,

·         For the creation of livable cities with landscape projects and applications,

·         Ensuring accessibility for disadvantaged groups in line with universal design and fair use principles,

·         With suggestions regarding the development of urban identity,

·         With suggestions for plant design,

It contributes to the sustainable use, protection, planning and management of our natural and cultural resources.

To raise professions and scientists who observe the ecological-social balance for the sustainability of landscapes, who have absorbed ethical values, who follow science, art and technology and contribute to these areas, who can think original and critical, who are researchers, innovative, entrepreneurs, who have a universal perspective, with infrastructure opportunities. 

To be a pioneer and leading department in our country with an entrepreneurial and innovative approach, loyal to ethical values, able to establish a strong communication network, effective in landscape planning, design and implementation processes, producing universal values.

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Students who successfully complete the programme will be awarded an Bachelor's Degree in Landscape Architecture.

It is a programme that provides undergraduate (first cycle) education.

The admission of students to the programmes is made according to the Student Selection and Placement Centre (OSYM – University entrance exam) within the framework set by the regulations of Higher Education Council (HEC). After students inform the Student Selection and Placement Centre about what programmes they want to study at, students are placed in the related programmes according to their scores they got from the exam.

Foreign students are admitted to the related programmes with the scores of internationally acceptable exams such as SAT, ACT or are admitted to the related programmes with their high school graduation grades (Undergraduate and Graduate Programmes for Foreign Students Admission Guidelines).

The admission of students of General Academic Exchange Protocol to the related programmes are done within the framework of the bilateral agreements (ERASMUS, FARABI, etc) signed between Duzce University and the partner universities. Guest students may enrol into the courses in this programme, if the related academic unit approves. Sufficient language knowledge is required to monitor the programme.

To complete the available courses in the program (a total of 240 ECTS) successfully, the students have to get at least 50 points out of 100 and required to achieve 2.50 on a 4.00 weighted grade point average. To graduate from the programs students should get at least DD in all of the courses provided. Students are also required to complete the compulsory practice in the specified time.

Students enrolled in DU might be exempted from certain courses within the framework of certain regulations. A student can be exempted from a certain course provided related course content previously received from another institution complies with that of DU, which is subject to approval and verification by the Board of faculty/graduate school/school.

Recognition of Education Abroad

DU recognises academic terms and courses studied by a student that has been involved in an exchange programme for one or two terms at the universities with which a partnership was established.

Students that are selected to avail themselves of Student Mobility for Studies under ERASMUS are obliged to draw up an education agreement with relevant ERASMUS Unit Coordination prior to the mobility term. The education agreement demonstrates the courses to be studied at the partner university the student intends to go, as well as appropriate ECTS credits.

In addition to this, students shall be asked to issue a Recognition Sheet, which refers to the equivalent of foreign courses in DU, so that the credit transfer is planned and approved.

At the end of the exchange term, the courses studied abroad are recorded and demonstrated in the transcript, together with the original course codes and names and ECTS credits. Pursuant to ERASMUS Programme and Collaboration Agreements concluded thereunto, official transcripts will quote, an abbreviation signal of ET, European Transfer, for the courses studied abroad.

No	Program Requirements
1	Knowledge: Within the framework of environmental and social sustainability principles (considering the public interest and value), to have the knowledge and understanding to gain and reflect up-to-date information that will carry out planning, design, management activities and research,
2	Knowledge: To have knowledge in planning and design approaches regarding sustainable resource management, healthy living and access to food, resilience, climate change management, rural / urban development and use of technology,
3	Knowledge: To have knowledge about universal, corporate and professional ethical values related to the field,
4	Knowledge: To have knowledge of national and international norms, conventions, professional principles, laws, regulations and standards related to the field,
5	Skill: The ability to use the necessary tools for the holistic perception, planning, design and creation of management models of processes within the landscape in the context of spatial / temporal scale, in the effects, pressures and changes faced by the inhabited geography,
6	Skill: The ability to develop alternative constructions and solutions in accordance with field-specific theories and methods in planning and design processes,
7	Skill: The ability to take responsibility in an interdisciplinary / transdisciplinary team, to set goals in a collaborative and inclusive manner, to plan tasks and to work in a participatory manner,
8	Skill: The ability to discuss individual views on field-specific issues and to improve oneself
9	Competence: Competence to act with the awareness of lifelong learning and research by internalizing sustainable, innovative and entrepreneurial approaches,
10	Competence: Competence of foreign language skills at a level to communicate and follow the developments in the field,
11	Competence: Competence to make decisions with a fair and participatory consciousness, with respect to environmental rights, social and cultural rights, showing the necessary sensitivity in the protection of natural environment and cultural heritage, based on universal principles in the field of profession,
12	Competence: Competence to prepare, implement, manage and monitor projects about the field, taking into account of knowledge in Landscape Architecture theory and methodology, open green space planning, green and blue infrastructure, management, protection and interpretation of cultural landscapes and landscape management,
13	Competence: Competence to produce projects in interdisciplinary collaborations in landscape planning, design and materials with the experience of tree nursery, application and office internship by integrating knowledge on the management of landscapes of different scales, planning and design of infrastructure projects, material and construction techniques with information technologies in the field,

Landscape Architecture Department program Qualifications and Basic Competencies are given in the same model button in TYYÇ Fields.

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Study areas include landscape planning and design, landscape management (planning, renovation and regeneration), plant growth and marketing organizations, and other private organizations.
Public organizations include  Ministry of Environment and Urban Planning, Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources, Ministry of Agriculture and Forest, General Directorate of Highways, State Hydraulic Works, municipialities, etc.

Graduate students of this programme may apply to study in graduate programmes.

Landscape architecture undergraduate programme was schemed to be a programme where formal education with 163 local credits and 240 ECTS credits is given to students.
The programme has common courses designated by University Senate along with the compulsory common courses and English course partaking in Higher Education Law.
Students are  required to particapate in any summer practice to be graduated.

For each course, the method of assessment and grading is defined in the "Course Information Forms". Click for more information about regulations.

The graduation from department of Landscape Architecture requires that the student must completed 240 ECTS (180 compulsory+60 elective) credit with success, made either an internship or graduation thesis on chemistry and provide the states of Bachelor of Education and Examination Regulation of Duzce University.

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