COURSE UNIT TITLE

: ENVIRONMENTAL CYCLES AND REASONS FOR CHANGE

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
EES 5051 ENVIRONMENTAL CYCLES AND REASONS FOR CHANGE ELECTIVE 3 0 0 7

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOĞAN YAŞAR

Offered to

ENVIRONMENTAL EARTH SCIENCES
ENVIRONMENTAL EARTH SCIENCES-NON THESIS

Course Objective

In recent years, due to the rapidly increasing population and technology, both in a
global and regional scale, the changing environment and living systems as well as the
reasons for change, biology, chemistry, physics and sciences in an interdisciplinary
approach covering aims to interpret.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   an interdisciplinary perspective to interpret environmental changes
2   to minimize the the negative effects of environmental change on land and
3   environmental changes and identify them in order to minimize the negative
4   interpretation of the interaction of land and sea
5   interpret natural phenomena and report them for the decision-makers

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Brief look to environmental earth sciences Course will be given extensive information about the cause of the opening.
2 Dynamics of earth sciences Plate tectonics as well as other systems will discusse
3 Rocks and sediment system Explanation of formation of rocks and sediment
4 Resources, Hazards and Exchanges explaining the importance of environmental cycles
5 Soil formation Soil formation processes and their importance in aquatic environments
6 Surface water the importance and significance of surface waters
7 Groundwater The importance of groundwater and groundwater-place cycles
8 Atmosphere Atmosphere and description of atmospheric phenomena
9 Marine and Coastal Systems Causes and solutions of coastal erosions
10 Marine and Coastal Systems examples for coastal problems
11 Environment and Energy Renewable energy, natural events that can be achieved
12 Worldwide examples for the environmental problems Eamples will be given to environmental issues and solutions around the world.

Recomended or Required Reading

Environmental Geology, C.W.Montgomery. Wm.C.Brown Publishers 1998: eds. Alyn C.Duxbury
and Alison B.Duxbury.
Climate Change and Impacts (EUR 15921), European Commission, 1993, ed. I. Troen.
The Earth Dynamic Systems, W.Kenneth Albin, Burges Publishing, 1985.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Articles on issues described before giving lessons to students, the students will be
provided with prior knowledge.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.50 + FIN * 0.50
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.50 + RST * 0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

The aim of this course is to give students the scientific viewpoint multiple
environmental events.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Courses are required to take at least 10 patients. Homework will be shown the source of
at least 20 preparations, and the "cut and paste" will not apply.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Prof.Dr.Doğan YAŞAR
Institute of Marine Sciences and Technology
05327715282

Office Hours

Tuesday and Wednesday 10:00 -12:00 and 13:00 - 15:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 2 28
Preparing presentations 1 20 20
Preparation for quiz etc. 2 10 20
Preparing assignments 1 30 30
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 5 10 50
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 2 2 4
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 175

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12
LO.1434321321123
LO.2343321321133
LO.3423211221123
LO.4432121221123
LO.5323211311133

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