| Course Unit Code | Course Unit Title | Type of Course Unit | Year of Study | Semester | Number of ECTS Credits | | 9900001066 | AGRICULTURAL STRUCTURES AND IRRIGATION | Compulsory | 2 | 3 | 4 |
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| Level of Course Unit |
| First Cycle |
| Objectives of the Course |
| This course aims at provide knowledge the students on farmstead planning and design; rural settlements planning of several livestock production facilities; planning and design principles of feed and manure storage structures; importance of irrigation and its necessity; water-yield relationships; soil-water-plant relationships; evapotranspiration; irrigation interval and amount of irrigation water; irrigation water quality; irrigation methods. |
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| Learning Outcomes |
| 1 | Understand importance of agricultural structures for agriculture. | | 2 | Make differences between Turkey and other countries farm structures, and measures need to be taken in Turkey. | | 3 | Learn farm structures technologies and developments. | | 4 | Learn required conditions in different livestock barns and design livestock barns within a certain flow chart. | | 5 | Possibilities of applying the knowledge gained from other courses and Get skills and self-confidence of design. | | 6 | Learn importance of water, its necessity and water-yield relationships and our countrys soil and water resources potential and sufficiency. | | 7 | Learn soil-water-plant relationships and irrigation interval and irrigation water requirement. | | 8 | Learn water conveyance and delivery systems. | | 9 | Provide knowledge on irrigation water quality and usability. | | 10 | Provide knowledge on pressure and surface irrigation methods |
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| Mode of Delivery |
| Daytime Class |
| Prerequisites and co-requisities |
| None |
| Recommended Optional Programme Components |
| None |
| Course Contents |
| Teoric and aplication |
| Weekly Detailed Course Contents |
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| 1 | Introduction and rural settlements | | | | 2 | Environmental Conditions in Agricultural Structures and Basic Control Principles | | | | 3 | Heat and Moisture Balance, Ventilation and Lighting | | | | 4 | Design of Livestock and Cattle Barns | | | | 5 | Tie-stall Barns, Open Yards, Free-stall Barns | | | | 6 | Design of Sheep Barns, Poultry House Planning | | | | 7 | Project design | | | | 8 | Importance of irrigation and its necessity; water-yield relationships | | | | 9 | Soil and water resources potential of Turkey and its sufficiency; irrigation water quality | | | | 10 | Soil-water-plant relationships; infiltration | | | | 11 | Evapotranspiration; effective rain | | | | 12 | Irrigation efficiencies; irrigation interval and amount of irrigation water | | | | 13 | Water conveyance and delivery systems | | | | 14 | Irrigation methods | | | | 15 | | | | | 16 | | | |
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| Recommended or Required Reading |
| •Balaban, A., Şen, E,. 1988 Tarımsal Yapılar. Ankara Üniv. Ziraat Fakültesi Yayınları:1083, Ders Kitabı:311, Ankara.
•Güngör, Y., A.Z. Erözel., Yıldırım, O., 2004. Sulama. A.Ü.Ziraat Fakültesi yayınları 1540/493, Ankara
•Apan, M., Demir, Y., Öztürk, T., Kara, T., 2010. Kültürteknik. Ondokuz Mayıs Üniversitesi Ziraat Fakültesi Yayınları, Samsun.
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| Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods |
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| Assessment Methods and Criteria | |
| Midterm Examination | 1 | 100 | | SUM | 100 | |
| Final Examination | 1 | 100 | | SUM | 100 | | Term (or Year) Learning Activities | 40 | | End Of Term (or Year) Learning Activities | 60 | | SUM | 100 |
| | Language of Instruction | | | Work Placement(s) | | None |
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| Workload Calculation |
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| Midterm Examination | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Final Examination | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Self Study | 14 | 6 | 84 |
| Individual Study for Mid term Examination | 1 | 10 | 10 |
| Individual Study for Final Examination | 1 | 10 | 10 |
| Homework | 1 | 10 | 10 |
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| Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes |
| LO1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | | LO2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | | LO3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | | LO4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | | LO5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | | LO6 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | | LO7 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | | LO8 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | | LO9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | | LO10 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
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| * Contribution Level : 1 Very low 2 Low 3 Medium 4 High 5 Very High |
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