| Course ID: | EDES 4660/6660. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | Environment and Behavior: Theory and Practice |
Course
Description: | The interactions and relationships between people and their physical environments. Focuses on the social, behavioral, and cultural aspects of design. |
| Oasis Title: | Environment and Behavior |
Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | Knowledge
•Develop an understanding of the complex relationship of people
and the environment
•Understand major issues and human dimensional aspects of
various human-environmental settings
Skills
•Demonstrate the ability to discuss the subject area through
various frames, such as settings (garden, home, street),
human evolution, particular groups’ needs (elderly, children,
ethnic groups), and power dimensions (economics, environmental
justice), and gender
Values
•Gain a critical understanding of normative theories that
influence landscape architecture
•Challenge to address ethnical debates related to inclusion,
participation, diversity, and sustainability |
| Topical Outline: | Topics to cover weeks 1-15
Topical outline
Garden and nature
Home, street, neighborhood
Park and open space/civic centers
Work environments/offices
Hospitals
Tourist destination
Ethnicity and race
Physically disabled
Children and senior/elderly space
Youth and teens
Immigrant
Space of adaptation, contestation, and inclusion
Landscape type study |