COURSE UNIT TITLE

: OCEANOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENTAL

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
EES 5052 OCEANOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENTAL 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

Aim of this course, to explain the environment and sea interactions, both within the
framework of the world, and as a result of their interactions with each other as well
as what is going on locally and the role of the human contribution to explain this
interaction.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   the relationship between Environmental science and Oceanography
2   have a general knowledge of oceanography
3   Biogeochemical reviews
4   Identificitaion of Coastal and Marine relations
5   interpret the sea and the coastal problems and report them to decision makers

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Marine Environment: Biology, Chemistry and Physical oceanography brief lecture
2 Marine Environment: Geological oceanography expression and its relationship with other branches of oceanography
3 Coasts and coastal processes Currents, winds, waves formed by the coast changes
4 Climatic chances Explanation of the causes of changes in climatic cycles climatic changes Milanovitch
5 Climatic changes Climatic changes caused by climatic changes in land and sea değiimlerin
6 Marine life and production and sea değiimlerin Explanation of upwelling and downwelling
7 Marine life and the environment Primary production and the factors that control it
8 Changes in the marine environment primary production of seadisclosure of events that occur with the change of environment
9 The effects of land-sea structures dams and their effects on coastal structures, beach erosion
10 the effects of natural and human events that cause erosion Shore structures such as the fishing port and marina
11 Marine pollution Description of the causes of marine pollution at sea and environmental hazards
12 The sea-shore structures and environmental hazards tsunamis etc.

Recomended or Required Reading

Duxbury, C., A., Duxbury, B. A.,World s Oceans, William C. Brown Publishers, 1984, 408
Troen, J., (Editor) Climatic Change Impacts, European Commision, 1993, 796 p.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 ASG ASSIGNMENT
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE ASG * 0.50 + FIN * 0.50
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) ASG * 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 assignments will be
displayed and preparations, the source of at least 20 and "cut and paste" will not be
used

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 ve 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.1433241213131
LO.2332141321121
LO.3432131211121
LO.4442141322121
LO.5422131211131

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