Mimarlık (%30İngilizce) Lisans Diploması

ISCO-08

ISCO-08

It is a higher education program based on secondary education qualifications, covering an eight-semester program and providing education for a specific learning area or profession.

Learning takes place in the form of formal or online education. In addition, practical training is carried out in laboratories and workshops within higher education institutions or as internships or workplace training in industry, health institutions and workplaces.

1. Research and Critical Thinking Skills: the ability to test information with criteria and standards such as accessing, evaluating, recording, applying, using to express abstract ideas, evaluating opposing views, reaching well-questioned conclusions
2. Graphic Expression Skills: The ability to formally express each stage of the programming and design process through a variety of techniques, including two- and three-dimensional hand drawings and computer technologies, in order to make appropriate presentations.
3. Legal Responsibilities, Ethics and Professional Provisions: Understand the architect's legal responsibilities for public health, safety and welfare, property rights, zoning and housing regulations, user rights, and other issues affecting design.
4. To have knowledge about historical environment conservation and restoration: Recognizing the historical environment and gaining conservation awareness; understanding the basic techniques necessary to document historical monuments and structures and to prepare restoration projects
5. To have knowledge about the history of world architecture: To understand the rules of world and regional architecture in architecture, landscape and urban design, and the climatic, technological, socio-economic, cultural factors that shape and sustain them, and the effects of historical heritage
6. Formal Composition and Design Skills: understanding the formation, development and application of visual perception and organizational systems in architectural and urban design and the ability to apply basic architectural principles at the building, interior and site design level.
7. Environmental Systems and Sustainable Design: Understanding the basic principles of design of environmental systems and the application of sustainability in architectural and urban design decisions to conserve artificial resources and create healthy buildings and settlements.
8. Structural Systems: To understand the principles of behavior of structures sustained by vertical and lateral forces and the development and application of contemporary structural systems.
9. Ability to Integrate Building and Service Systems: Ability to evaluate, select and integrate structural, environmental, security, building envelope and building service systems (plumbing, electrical, vertical circulation, communications, security and fire protection) in building design.
10. Building Materials and Applications: Understanding the principles and standards related to the production, use and application of building materials and components 
11. Construction Management and Practice Skills: Understand the basic principles of office organization, business planning, marketing, financial management, project management, risk mitigation and leadership, and the issues of globalization, expanding scope of practice, and diversity affecting the profession.

Advanced level of the key competencies listed below.

• Universal professional competence, 
• Competence to produce science through research,
• Competence to be dynamic, contemporary, democratic and sensitive to ethical values, 
• The ability to resist political pressures in the public interest, 
• Ability to produce and realize utopia

Success evaluation

a) In the evaluation of a student's success in a course, the semester grade given out of one hundred full grades in the semester studies of that course and the final grade given out of one hundred full grades in the final exam are taken into consideration.

b) In the measurement of success, the weight of the semester grade is 60% and the weight of the final exam is 40%.

Success grade

(1) Success grade is determined as stated below. 

Relative evaluation method is used to determine this.
a) The meanings of the achievement grades are defined as follows.

Success Grade Coefficient Explanation
AA 4.00 Excellent
BA 3.50 Very good
BB 3.00 Good
CB 2.50 Medium
CC 2.00 Adequate
DC 1.50 Conditional Pass
DD 1.00 Failed
FD 0.50 Fail
FF 0.00 Failed
F0 0.00 Absentee
G: Passes
K: Stays
İ: Leave of Absence.
M: Exempt
E: Missing 

2) A student who receives a letter grade of (DC) in a course is considered to be conditionally successful (conditionally successful) in this course. For this reason, in order for a student who receives the letter grade (DC) from a course to be considered successful in this course, his/her GPA must be at least 2.00. In order for a student who has conditionally successful course(s) in the curriculum for which he/she is responsible to graduate, his/her GPA for all courses must be at least 2.00 and is included in the GPA calculation.

3) A grade of G (Pass) indicates successful/satisfactory performance in the course or educational activities and is not included in the GPA calculation.

4) The grade K (Fail) indicates failure/inadequacy in the course or educational activities and is not included in the GPA calculation.

5) The grade of I (On Leave) indicates that the student has taken permission to interrupt his/her education in accordance with the relevant article of this Regulation and therefore does not fulfill the requirements of the course and is not included in the AGNO calculation until it returns to a grade. For courses that are not completed by the end of the semester following the semester in which the course is taken, the grade of I automatically turns into FF.

6) The grade of M (Exempt) is the grade given for the courses that the student has taken before and / or whose equivalence is accepted and exempted by the decisions of the relevant board of directors and is not included in the AGNO calculation.

Make-up, Make-up and Graduation exams

(1) The make-up exam is made for the semester exam. If there are two exams during the semester, the student can take an excuse exam only for one of them. Whether a student can take an excuse exam for a course and how the excuse exams will be conducted are carried out according to the principles determined by the Senate. No make-up exam is allowed for the final exam.

(2) The principles regarding the make-up exam are as follows

a) In order to take the make-up exam; it is compulsory to be enrolled in the relevant courses in the academic year in which the exam will be held and to fulfill the conditions for taking the final exam of these courses. Students who cannot take the make-up exams are not given an excuse exam right for this exam.
b) Students can take the make-up exam from the courses in which they are conditionally successful and unsuccessful (except F0). The grade obtained in the make-up exam replaces the final exam grade of that course. At the end of the make-up exam, a letter grade is determined by taking into account the weights of the midterm exam, semester studies and make-up exam grade.
c) Students who do not take the make-up exam of a course are given a grade of E (Incomplete) and the letter grade of this course remains as the end-of-semester letter grade. Make-up letter grades are included in the semester grade point average.

(3) The principles regarding the graduation exam are as follows:
a) In order to take the graduation exam, it is compulsory to fulfill the conditions to take the final exam of the relevant course. Students who cannot take the graduation exams are not given an excuse exam right for this exam.
b) For students who have at most two courses left for graduation; a graduation exam is held for failed courses after the make-up exam and within the period specified in the academic calendar. Students who cannot graduate because their GPA is not 2.00 can take the graduation exam from a maximum of two conditionally successful courses.

c) In order to be successful in the graduation exam, it is compulsory to get at least CC grade. The grade obtained in the exam replaces the success grade of that course. Midterm and semester studies are not included in the evaluation

To oversee the quality of higher education programs;

• YÖK is responsible for planning, organizing, managing and supervising education and training and other activities in higher education institutions.
• “University Monitoring and Evaluation Reports” of higher education institutions prepared within the framework of the criteria determined by YÖK are published every year. The reports prepared according to these reports, including quantitative and qualitative evaluations of higher education institutions, are shared with the public by YÖK.
• “Foundation Higher Education Institutions Report” containing academic, administrative and financial data of foundation higher education institutions is published annually by CoHE. These reports, which include quantitative and qualitative evaluations of foundation higher education institutions, are shared with the public by YÖK.

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:

YÖK determines the minimum standards and criteria required for the opening of undergraduate departments and programs in higher education institutions.

1.1. 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 YÖK on these issues.

1.2. 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 Council of Higher Education.

2. Assessment and Evaluation: The measurement and evaluation of the learning outcomes of each undergraduate program is carried out according to the teaching and examination regulations prepared by higher education institutions in accordance with the basic principles determined by YÖK 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.

4. Self-Assessment-External Evaluation: Higher education institutions, in the context of continuous monitoring, enter the “Institutional Internal Evaluation Reports” of the previous year into the Information System prepared by the Higher Education Quality Council (YÖKAK) at the beginning of each year. YÖKAK 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 YÖKAK also indicate that the quality assurance of the qualifications of the programs is ensured. YÖKAK conducts regular review activities regarding the qualifications determined in accordance with the legislation.

To be able to study in YTU Undergraduate programs, 

• It is necessary to graduate from secondary education institutions or foreign secondary education institutions whose equivalence is approved by the Ministry of National Education and to meet the admission requirements for undergraduate programs of higher education institutions. 
• Students must have passed the exam conducted by the Measurement, Selection and Placement Center (ÖSYM) and must not be enrolled in another formal higher education program. 
• For students to be admitted from abroad, the provisions of the YTU Application and Registration Directive for Students to be Admitted from Abroad are applied. 
• For associate degree graduates as a result of the Vertical Transfer Examination (DGS) conducted by ÖSYM, the procedures and principles of which are determined by YÖK, it must be a continuation of the fields they have completed in higher education institutions.
• Students who are eligible for undergraduate programs taught 100% in English take the English Proficiency Examination (IYS). Except for the English Language Teaching Program of the Department of Foreign Languages Education of the Faculty of Education, IYS and preparatory education are carried out in accordance with the YTU School of Foreign Languages (SFL) Teaching and Examination Directive and other legislation provisions.

• Those with a bachelor's degree can continue their studies in master's degree programs and, if they meet the relevant requirements, in doctoral and proficiency in art programs accepted 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 if they are successful, they can receive two separate undergraduate diplomas.

1. Higher Education Law No. 2547

1.1. Regulation on the Principles of Transferring Between Associate 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

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

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

The qualification is permanently valid.