COURSE UNIT TITLE

: CHEMICAL LAND DEGRADATION

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
SAC 6039 CHEMICAL LAND DEGRADATION ELECTIVE 3 0 0 7

Offered By

Geography Teacher Education

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASISTANT PROFESSOR ADNAN SEMENDEROĞLU

Offered to

Geography Teacher Education

Course Objective

The Learning of chemical land degradation concept, the causes and results of the chemical land degradation.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Learning the chemical and biological land degradation concept and the types of chemical and biological land degradation
2   Learning the natural factors which effective on chemical land degradation
3   Learning the socio-economic factors which cause chemical land degradation
4   Learning the results of chemical and biological land degradation
5   Learning the dimensions of chemical and biological land degradation in Turkey and around the World

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Definitions and extent of chemical land degradation
2 The types of chemical land degradation
3 Salinization
4 Salinization and alkalization in Turkey and in the World
5 The effects of boron salts as chemical land degradation
6 The effects and results of Alkalization (solonization)
7 The causes, results and effects of Acidification
8 MIDTERM EXAM
9 The effects and results of Pollution. Decreasing and being exhausted of nutrients in the soil.
10 The biological land degradation.
11 The dimensions and results of chemical land degradation in Turkey.
12 Group studies and activities related to land degradation.
13 The evaluation of the general conclusions.
14 Practices and investigations in sample areas.
15 FINAL EXAM

Recomended or Required Reading

Semenderoğlu, A., (2007). Fiziksel Arazi Degradasyonu. Türk Coğr. Derg. S 47, s 75-99. Istanbul.
Semenderoğlu, A., (2006). Kimyasal ve Biyolojik Arazi Degradasyonu. Türk Coğr. Derg. S 45, s 15-41. Istanbul.
Semenderoğlu, A., (2006). Araziden yararlanma ve arazi degradasyonu (PPT presentation).

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Presentation, discussion, observation and land trips.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTEG MIDTERM GRADE
2 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTEG * 0.40 + FCG * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTEG * 0.40 + RST * 0.60

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

a.semenderoglu@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 4 52
Preparation for midterm exam 1 20 20
Preparation for final exam 1 22 22
Preparing assignments 1 5 5
Field study 2 12 24
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 166

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6
LO.14434
LO.24535
LO.34535
LO.44535
LO.5453

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