3.2. Erciyes university architecture faculty and renovation education program
The lessons on offer in Erciyes University Architecture Faculty’s renovation departments include 9 hours of
obligatory lessons and 23 elected lessons of 2 hours each. The first obligatory lesson, Protection and Documentation
of Historical Environment I, involves 2 hours of theoretical and 3 hours of practical lessons making a total of 4
credits. Within this lesson framework students are given instruction in how to conduct renovation, survey,
restitution, and classify monument types and to take measurements and make drawings in this context. The other
obligatory lesson, Protection and Documentation of Historical Environment II, involves 2 hours of theoretical and 3
hours of practical lessons making a total of 3 credits. The content of the lesson involves taking measurements and
making drawings of a structure or a whole street in a historical setting. Also there are 26 elected lessons offered at
the renovation department which are in different subjects like New Functions for Old Structures, Design in
Historical Textures, Architectural Elements in Traditional Textures, Material Protection in Traditional Textures and
Protection Theory. In applications in this area, the targets are to protect cultural heritage, determine the historical
structure stocks of Kayseri and its surroundings, make inventory studies, conduct archiving, protecting the present
cultural heritages potential and bringing it to a more perceptible situation.
To avoid giving education in a traditional way in licensed degree renovation education, research has been
conducted and funds provided. However, for reasons such as crowded classrooms, the equipment being expensive
and the problem of providing this equipment to the students, instead of making it available to licensed degree
students, it has been decided to use it with those who have architecture degrees, in graduate degree classes with
fewer students. With the equipment and programs available, graduate students have the opportunity to learn
advanced-technology supported methods using the example of the American College which is registered and used as
the Erciyes University Social Facilities building. The training for reading the surveying data, program and survey
devices is given by the “Kubit” company, from which the programs are obtained.