ARCH615 ARCHITECTURAL RESEARCH. METHODS AND ETHICS 
    
       | Course Code: | 
       1200615 | 
    
    
       | METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 
       6(6-0) | 
    
    
       | ECTS Credit: | 
       14.0 | 
    
    
       | Department: | 
       Architecture | 
    
    
       | Language of Instruction: | 
       English | 
    
    
       | Level of Study: | 
       Graduate | 
    
    
       | Course Coordinator: | 
       Prof.Dr. ZEYNEP MENNAN | 
    
    
       | Offered Semester: | 
       Fall Semesters. | 
    
Course Content
Interrogation of the nature of design research and examination of various epistemological positions and related theoretical/philosophical perspectives and methodologies used in design research; relative approaches of social and natural sciences towards the question of knowledge acquisiton/legitimation and the scientific method; shift from objectivist/empiricist philosophies of science towards constructivist. interpretivist models of knowledge construction; current research directions.