Training of surveying course in Dicle University faculty of architecture

Being one of the first professions humanity obtained in the groove of civilization, architecture is a residence designing work in simplest definition. In Turkey training of architecture started first with Sanayi-i Nefise Mektebi in 1883. Being one of the 35 architecture departments in Turkey, Dicle University Department of Architecture maintains education-training in the province of Diyarbakir as an institution sole since 1984 and with Mardin Artuklu University Department of Architecture since 2010 in the Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia Region. Architecture training in Dicle University teaches on one hand the designing of the new and modern structures and to benefit from and protect the designs of cultural properties that reach to modem day with the transmission of hundreds of years of accumulation to this day on the other. While equivalent courses are taught in the Architecture Faculties of our country, particularly Surveying Techniques course in which the historical environment and monuments are examined and documented evolved into a course drawing to local factors. The course being as the 3rd class course in Faculties of Architectures is taught with the active participation of the student, teacher and citizens in Diyarbakir which highly houses the cultural richness. Field works are executed as the overflow of a studio to the street in which the whole neighborhood takes part in. Executed in each spring tern, this course is reinforced with a trip made to the nearing provinces or towns. The acquisitions obtained with the course of Surveying Techniques which is a protection and documentation course of students coming from various cultural enviromnents and getting architecture training shall be made with the created area of interest and with the assessment of education-training. With this concern, a survey study was made with 50 students who successfully completed the Surveying Techniques course in 3rd class of Diyarbakir Dicle University Department of Architecture in order to search for the answers of the following questions; Before they were registered in the Department of Architecture what were their points of view on historical properties in architectural sense? How they find the training they had in the course of Surveying Techniques (Relief Classes) and could they question this training? Did they experience a conversion period after they had the course of surveying techniques? What kind of impact did the street and education leave on the structure and residents trainings? Would they like to make study regarding the protection and restoration in their field of profession they reach after the training of architecture? A questionnaire study with 50 students, who have successfully completed the Surveying Techniques lecture in the Architecture Department of Diyarbakir Dicle University in order to search the answers of these questions, has been performed. The acquisitions of the Surveying Techniques lecture with the results obtained have been tried to put into existence, by evaluating these questionnaires.