COURSE UNIT TITLE

: AGRICULTURAL ECOLOGY

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
TAR 4105 AGRICULTURAL ECOLOGY COMPULSORY 2 0 0 2

Offered By

Agricultural Management

Level of Course Unit

Short Cycle Programmes (Associate's Degree)

Course Coordinator

INSTRUCTOR FEYZA TEKINBAŞ

Offered to

Agricultural Management
Agricultural Management

Course Objective

To inform about basic concepts and principles in ecology, effects on agriculture of environmental factors, differences of natural ecosystems and keep of ecology.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Being able to evaluate land quantity, demographical structure and agricultural regions of Turkey.
2   Being able to definite growing factors effects on agricultural production ( ecological factors: light, term, rain, humidity, soil and live factors).
3   Being able to broadly explain main principles of ecology in agriculture, environment and sustainable development models.
4   Being able to explain to anybody adopted measures for decreasing of environmental pollution.
5   Being able to explain conceptual and theoretical essentials of material design and agricultural ecologies.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Basic concepts and definition of ecology
2 Dynamics of the World population and food balance
3 Categorization of ecosystems and distribution of large ecosystems
4 Categorization of ecosystems and distribution of large ecosystems
5 Environmental factors (climatic factors, light)
6 Environmental factors (term)
7 Mid-Term Exam
8 Mid-Term Exam
9 Environmental factors (air movements, rain)
10 Definition of soil and consist of soils
11 Structure and texture of soil
12 Soil water, water forms in soil, water movement in soil and relationship with plant, soil nutrient materials in soil and relationship with plant
13 Soil air, soil reaction, soil salinity and relationship with plant, water and wind erosion, soil cultivation
14 Keep to living of soil for plant growing and soil pollution

Recomended or Required Reading

Main book: Eser, D., 1997. Tarımsal Ekoloji. Ankara Üniversitesi Ziraat Fakültesi Yayınları,
No:1473. Ankara
Genç, T. Tükel, T., 2000 Tarımsal Ekoloji Çukurova Üniv. Ziraat Fakültesi Yayınları. Adana

Suplementary book: Odum, E. P., 1971. Fundamentals of Ecology. W. B. Saunders Company. Philadelphia

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. Lecturing
2. Question- answer
3. Active participation

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FN Final
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE VZ*0.40 + FN* 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) VZ*0.40 + BUT* 0.60

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Learning outcomes will be assessed by mid-term and final exams.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 2 24
Preparation for midterm exam 1 8 8
Preparation for final exam 1 12 12
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 46

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15
LO.11
LO.21
LO.31
LO.41
LO.511

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