COURSE UNIT TITLE

: BIOSAFETY

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ISG 5012 BIOSAFETY ELECTIVE 2 2 0 8

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DELIA TERESA SPONZA

Offered to

Ph.D. in Occupational Health and Safety
Occupational Healty and Safety(Non-Thesis-Evening)
Occupational Healty and Safety

Course Objective

To teach biosafety, explain the relevant regulations and the relationships between environment, health and food biotechnology, to teach the meaning of biosafety in genetic studies, to teach the biosafety protocol and its applications, the give information about the recombinant DNA researches for some animals, and plants ,to give information about Cartagene protocol and biodiversity, to explain the methods for risk and social- economical evaluations, to give some informations for bio- ethic under biosafety regulations.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   to learn the Biosafety law numbered 5977
2   to learn the legal arrangements in biosafety, correlations between environment, health, food biotechnology and biosafety in genetic
3   to learn the Protocol for biosafety in Turkey in Environmental Engineering, and their applications,
4   limits for biosafety in studied places
5   to learn microorganisms, animals and insects are used in the large-scale utilization of recombinant DNA molecule researches
6   prevention from bio-terrorism in biotechnology applications
7   to learn the Cartagena protocol and biodiversity
8   to learn the risk and social-economical evaluation and bio-ethic in biosafety regulations

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 What is Biosafety law numbered 5977 What is its properties
2 Legal arrangements In biosafety, correlations between environment, health ve food biotechnology and biosafety in genetic
3 Protocol for biosafety in Turkey in Environmental Engineering, and their applications, limits for biosafety in studied places
4 Large-SCALE Utilization of microorganisms in DNA molecules and large scale utilization of plant DNAs
5 Utilization of animal, insect and some vertebrates in DNA recombinations
6 Mid- term exam
7 To prevent the bio-terrorizm in biotechnological researches
8 Utilization of new products and organisms in genetic engineering and biotechnology, biological safety program
9 Cartagena protocol in Turkey and biodiversity
10 Expertise Committee on Biosafety and applications in Turkey
11 Expert biosafety commission and its regulations
12 Risk management, social-economical evaluations in biosafety
13 Risk management, social-economical evaluations in biosafety
14 Risk management, social-economical evaluations in biosafety

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Biosafety, WHO press, 2013
2. The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, Convention on Biological Diversity, 2012
3. Environmental Biosafety Research, Bao-Rong LU, 2011
4. GDO yönetmeliği ve biyogüvenlik yasası, 2011
5. Biosafety law , 2011

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. Power point presentations of the course
2. Home work and presentations

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.30 +ASG * 0.20 +FIN * 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + ASG * 0.20 + RST * 0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

50% final exam+30% mid-term exam+20% home work presentations

Assessment Criteria

50% final exam+30% mid-term exam+20% home work presentations

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

DEU. Müh. Fak. Çevre Mühendisliği Bölümü, Buca Izmir. E mail: delya.sponza@deu.edu.tr , tel: 3017119

Office Hours

Tuesday 1-2

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Tutorials 6 2 12
Lectures 6 2 12
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 6 10 60
Preparation for midterm exam 1 20 20
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Preparing presentations 6 10 60
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 188

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9
LO.14
LO.242
LO.333
LO.4432
LO.543
LO.633
LO.7332
LO.8334

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