İç Mimarlık ve Çevre Tasarımı Lisans Diploması

ISCO:08

ISCO:08

This program aims to provide students with the necessary infrastructure, knowledge, and skills to plan and implement the required design and application when participating in interiors of contemporary or historical buildings and their immediate surroundings by respecting ethical values. In addition to theoretical knowledge, the courses will provide students with technical and practical information through workshops that will allow for a master-apprentice relationship. In addition, all kinds of audio-visual presentation tools are used, which are among the contemporary technological possibilities for design studies, and students are allowed to learn by using computer laboratories and contemporary drawing programs in their designs.

In the first three years of the program, vocational training is predominant, and courses in project design, construction, and material knowledge are the main subjects. On the other hand, the curriculum in the last year, which is the pre-professional period, is aimed at further specialization of the student in certain areas, with many elective courses as well as design subjects.

Education and training take the form of formal, open, or distance learning. In addition, practical training is provided in offices, construction sites, and workshops through internships.

• To create interior projects that meet users' needs by developing the necessary theoretical, technical, and practical skills in interior architecture and environmental design.
• To acquire effective communication, expression, and presentation skills through close study of current communication technologies.
• To be able to develop disciplinary and interdisciplinary critical thinking between past and present by understanding the context of the building's interior space.
• To be able to produce solutions to interior design problems in an environmentally sensitive manner, with sustainable and universal design \/ accessibility approaches.
• Establish a relationship between theoretical and practical knowledge and sectoral knowledge.
• To interpret the knowledge and skills acquired in an original perspective by closely following national and international scientific research and competitions.
• Protect professional values by adopting a responsible (corporate and social) and collaborative approach to professional ethics.
• To support the theoretical gains with practical applications, linking the knowledge, skills, and competencies acquired in the professional field with construction, application, and industrial opportunities.

• Competence in interpreting and designing interior space
• Flexibility and adaptability
• Digital competence
• Personal, social, and learning to learn competence
• Entrepreneurship competence
• Cultural awareness and expression competence

Assessment criteria in the program as the main structure: 68% theoretical and theoretical courses, 32% applied studies. For each course, there is at least one mid-term and one final exam per semester. The lecturer may assign teaching activities such as quizzes, homework, projects, and fieldwork during the semester according to the status of the course. Teachers are free to evaluate success according to midterm, final exam, quiz, project, etc. activities. Each teacher announces at the beginning of the semester the criteria that will be used to evaluate success. Each course has a specific credit/hour value. These values are calculated by adding half of the practical hours to the weekly theoretical hours of the course. Fractions are not included in the credit total.

A letter grading system is used to assess student performance. A student who receives one of the grades (A), (A-), (B+), (B), (B-), (C+), (C-), (D+), (D) from a course is considered successful in that course. F1' and 'F2' grades indicate that the student has failed the course. F1' is given to students who fail the course despite attending the course, and 'F2' is given to students who fail the course due to absences. Students who are failing the course due to absenteeism will not be allowed to sit for the final examination. Students who receive a grade of F1 or F2 must repeat the course in subsequent semesters. Students with a GPA of 2.00 or higher at the end of the semester are considered successful students. Students with a GPA of 1.99 and below are considered failing students.

To observe the quality of higher education programs;

• CoHE is responsible for the planning, organization, management and supervision of education and training and other activities carried out in higher education institutions.
• “University Monitoring and Evaluation Reports” of higher education institutions prepared annually within the framework of the criteria determined by CoHE are published. The reports prepared according to these reports, including quantitative and qualitative evaluations of higher education institutions, are shared with the public by CoHE.
• Every year, CoHE publishes the “Foundation Higher Education Institutions Report”, which includes academic, administrative, and financial data on foundation higher education institutions. These reports, which include quantitative and qualitative evaluations of foundation higher education institutions, are shared with the public by CoHE.

Quality assurance of undergraduate programs in higher education is ensured according to the “Procedures and Principles for Ensuring Quality Assurance of Higher Education Diploma Programs”:

1. Creation and Approval of Curricula:
   1. CoHE determines the minimum standards and criteria required for the opening of undergraduate departments and programs in higher education institutions.
   2. The curriculum of undergraduate programs in higher education institutions and the learning outcomes that each program will provide to students are determined by the senates of higher education institutions in accordance with the basic principles determined by CoHE on these issues.
   3. The curricula of the National Core Curricula are adopted by the relevant Council of Deans and implemented by higher education institutions with the approval of the CoHE.
2. Measurement-Evaluation: The measurement and evaluation of the learning outcomes of each undergraduate program is carried out according to the education and training and examination regulations prepared by higher education institutions in accordance with the basic principles determined by CoHE on these issues.
3. Certification: Students enrolled in undergraduate programs, if they successfully complete the course credits and other obligations determined by higher education institutions; receive a bachelor’s degree.
   1. Self-Assessment-External Assessment: In the context of continuous monitoring, higher education institutions enter their “Institutional Internal Evaluation Reports” for the previous year into the Information System prepared by the Higher Education Quality Council (THEQC) at the beginning of each year. THEQC shares the “Institutional Feedback Report” prepared for the external evaluation of higher education institutions with the public. In addition, accreditation decisions issued by accreditation bodies authorized or recognized by THEQC also indicate that the quality assurance of the qualifications of the programs is ensured. THEQC conducts regular review activities regarding the qualifications determined in accordance with the legislation.                                                                                                                                                       This program has also been accredited by TAPLAK (Design and Planning Accreditation Association) for 3 years from 21.08.2023. 

Successful students who have obtained the base score of that year in the TM1 score type in the YGS exam conducted by ÖSYM can enroll in the Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design. General admission requirements for Turkish and foreign students are valid to start the program.

• Those who have a bachelor’s degree can attend master’s degree programs, and if they meet the relevant requirements, they will be accepted to doctorate programs with a bachelor’s degree.
• Undergraduate students have the right to participate in double major programs offered by the higher education institutions where they are studying. Students enrolled in double major programs can take courses from two diploma programs simultaneously and receive two separate undergraduate diplomas if they are successful.

1. Act No. 2547 on Higher Education

1.1. Regulation on the Principles of Transferring Between Associate Degree and Undergraduate Programs, Double Major, Minor, and Inter-Institutional Credit Transfer in Higher Education Institutions

1.2. Regulation on the Continuation of Graduates of Vocational Schools and Open Education Associate Degree Programs to Undergraduate Education

Act No. 2547 on Higher Education (Additional Article-35)

2.1. Regulation on Higher Education Quality Assurance and Higher Education Quality Board

The proficiency is valid at all times.