| Course Unit Code | Course Unit Title | Type of Course Unit | Year of Study | Semester | Number of ECTS Credits | | KRL302 | ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION IN AGRICULTURE | Elective | 3 | 6 | 4 |
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| Level of Course Unit |
| First Cycle |
| Objectives of the Course |
| The objective of this course is to enable the students to understand and comment the complex interactions between agriculture and environmental problems and to have the capacity to improve ideas to solve the problems and to share ideas with related stake-holders. |
| Name of Lecturer(s) |
| Prof.Dr. Eftal Düzyaman; Prof.Dr. Serdar Tezcan; Prof. Ömer Lütfü Elmacı; Yrd.Doç.Dr. Nedim Çetinkaya; |
| Learning Outcomes |
| 1 | Gaining the oppurtunity to be involved in the projects related with environmental problems, to prepare reports, or to assess the reports prepared by others. | | 2 | | | 3 | Gaining the capacity to understand the interrelations between agricultural production and the environment | | 4 | Learning and recognizing the main causes for environmental pollution, gaining the ability to learn the symptoms on plants caused by emissions in form of gases and particulates and differentiating them from symptoms caused by the living organisms. | | 5 | Gaining the ability to improve ideas to solve environmental problems and the ability for making suggestions to the producers. | | 6 | Gaining the chance for working in the govermental or private institutions as experts. |
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| Mode of Delivery |
| Face to Face |
| Prerequisites and co-requisities |
| None |
| Recommended Optional Programme Components |
| None |
| Course Contents |
| • Agriculture and environmental problems; definitions, general information on the actual status of such problems in the world and in Turkey.
• Main pollution sources and types of pollution in terms of the environment as the receiver.
• Effect of air, water and soil pollution on the agricultural and natural eco-systems.
• Environmental problems cuased by the agricultural activities.
• To give projects to the students on the selected items for preparation and presentation during the course.
• General assessment of the course.
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| Weekly Detailed Course Contents |
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| 1 | Agriculture-Environment Interactions. A historical review | | | | 2 | Agriculture and Pollution | | | | 3 | Main Pollution Sources | | | | 4 | Air Pollution | | | | 5 | Air Pollution | | | | 6 | Water Pollution | | | | 7 | Water Pollution | | | | 8 | Midterm exam | | | | 9 | Soil Pollution | | | | 10 | Pesticides and Agriculture | | | | 11 | Radioactive, Heat, Light and Electromagnetic Pollution | | | | 12 | Biological and Genetical Pollution | | | | 13 | General Solutions for the Environmental Problems | | | | 14 | Presentation of the Projects | | | | 15 | Presentation of the Projects | | | | 16 | Final exam | | |
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| Recommended or Required Reading |
| Anonymous, “Çevre Bilimi-Sürdürülebilir Dünya”. Ed. Ü. Erdem. E.Ü. Çevre Sorunları Uygulama ve Araştırma Merkezi Yayınları No:1. XX+498 s. (1999)
Anonymous, “Türkiye’nin Çevre Sorunları-2003. Türkiye Çevre Vakfı Yayını, No :163, Ankara. 472 s. (2003)
Anonymous, Ökotoxikologie von Pflanzenschutzmitteln. Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Sachstandsbericht Mitteilung 1. 414 pp (1994)
Aydoğdu, M. & K. Gezer, Çevre Bilimi. Anı Yayıncılık. 224 s. (2007)
Ecevit, O., Mennan, H., Aksoy, M., Akça, İ., Tarımsal mücadele ilaçları ve çevreye olan etkileri. OMÜ Ziraat Fakültesi, Ders Kitabı No:32, 145s. (1999)
Ertürk, H., Çevre Bilimleri. Ekin Yayınları. 524 s. (2009)
Türkman, A., Yaşanabilir bir çevre için. Dokuz Eylül Yayınları. 251 s. (2000)
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| Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods |
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| Assessment Methods and Criteria | | | Language of Instruction | | Turkish | | Work Placement(s) | | None |
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| Workload Calculation |
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| Quiz | 4 | 1 | 4 |
| Attending Lectures | 14 | 2 | 28 |
| Project Presentation | 1 | 15 | 15 |
| Self Study | 14 | 1 | 14 |
| Individual Study for Mid term Examination | 1 | 10 | 10 |
| Individual Study for Final Examination | 1 | 20 | 20 |
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| Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes |
| LO1 | | | | 4 | | | | LO2 | | | | 3 | | | | LO3 | 3 | | | | | | | LO4 | | | 4 | | | | | LO5 | | | 4 | | | | | LO6 | | | | | | |
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| * Contribution Level : 1 Very low 2 Low 3 Medium 4 High 5 Very High |
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