Iğdır University Lifelong Learning Programme

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type of Course Unit	Year of Study	Semester	Number of ECTS Credits
0701205108	SÜS BİTKİLERİ YETİŞTİRİCİLİĞİ	Compulsory	3	5	4

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle

Objectives of the Course

Basically conceiving the importance of landscape plants dealing with urban and suburban landscape; understanding the basic principles in utilization of woody plants in lanscape; having necessary information on the botanical features of the most used woody plants that well adapted to local ecology and their cultural and ecological demands, their propagation and the foremost cultivars etc.

Name of Lecturer(s)

Doç Dr. Melekşen AKIN

Learning Outcomes

1	Explaining the importance/merits of the woody landscape plants
2	Conceiving the classification of plants according to criterion like norm, form, texture etc.
3	Knowing the morphological and biological features of woody landscape plants
4	Knowing the propagation techniques of woody landscape plants
5	Knowing the well-known cultivars and their features

Mode of Delivery

Daytime Class

Prerequisites and co-requisities

None

Recommended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Description of woody landscape plants and their importance dealing with the urban and suburban landscaping; classification of the plants according to various physical (norm, form, texture, branching) criterion; various characteristics (taxonomical, morphological, biological) ecological and cultural demands, propagation and important cultivars of woody landscape plants.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Theoretical	Practice	Laboratory
1	The ornamental plants is the significance of in the world and in Turkey
2	The commercial potential of ornamental plants and it is breeding
3	The landscaping plants, the ornamental pot plants, the cut flowers
4	The natural ornamental, the bulb ornamental plants
5	Plants that can be used as an ornamental plant
6	The ornamental plants of use in parks, gardens and homes - The diseases and pests in ornamental plants
7	Propagation of ornamental plants and it is propagation methods
8	Midterm exam
9	The ornamental grasses fields, plants and types
10	The production of grass areas, these are care, repair and renewal
11	The rootstock plans used in the carnation, rose and chrysanthemum species
12	The cut flower breeding in normal ecology and in greenhouse conditions
13	The gladio, freesia, iris, lily, tulip and other types of bulb which the cut flower breeding in normal ecology and in greenhouse conditions
14	In the cut flowers; • Internal and external trade • Storage and marketing • Standardization and quality evaluation
15	In the cut flowers; • Internal and external trade • Storage and marketing • Standardization and quality evaluation
16	Final Exam

Recommended or Required Reading

1.The instructor's lecture notes 2.Internet 3.National and international congress notifications

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods and Criteria

Term (or Year) Learning Activities	Quantity	Weight
Midterm Examination	1	100
SUM		100
End Of Term (or Year) Learning Activities	Quantity	Weight
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

Turkish

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities	Number	Time (hours)	Total Work Load (hours)
Midterm Examination	1	1	1
Final Examination	1	2	2
Self Study	14	6	84
Individual Study for Mid term Examination	1	15	15
Individual Study for Final Examination	1	20	20
Homework	1	10	10
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)			132

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

	PO 1	PO 2	PO 3	PO 4	PO 5	PO 6	PO 7	PO 8
LO1
LO2
LO3
LO4	3	3	3			3	3
LO5

* Contribution Level : 1 Very low 2 Low 3 Medium 4 High 5 Very High