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
170500107111	AGRICULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT	Elective	4	7	3

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 improve the capacity to generate ideas to solve the problems and to share ideas with related stake-holders.

Name of Lecturer(s)

Doç. Dr.Özcan ÇAĞLAR

Learning Outcomes

The student gains the capacity to understand the interrelations between agricultural production and the environment. The student learns and recognizing the main causes for environmental pollution, 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.The student gains the ability to improve ideas to solve environmental problems and the ability for making suggestions to the producers.The student gains the chance for working in the govermental or private institutions as experts.The student gains the oppurtunity to be involved in the projects related with environmental problems, to prepare reports, or to assess the reports prepared by others.

Mode of Delivery

Daytime Class

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.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Theoretical	Practice	Laboratory
1	1 Soil pollution and factors causing soil pollution 2 Agriculture and environmental relations 3 Erosion, field use, burning stubble 4 Chemicals and effects of water on the environment 5 Pesticides 6 Basic environmental awareness training 7 Alternative control methods in organic farming 8 Alternative control methods in organic farming 9 Examination of the relations between soil, water and climate 10 General toxicology 11 Drainage of irrigated areas 12 Misuse of agricultural lands 13 Ecology and environmental biology 14 Effect of climate change on agriculture

Recommended or Required Reading

Ertürk, H., 2009. Çevre Bilimleri. Ekin Yayınları. 524 s. Türkçe Türkman, A., 2000 Yaşanabilir bir çevre için. Dokuz Eylül Yayınları. 251 s.

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
Attending Lectures	14	2	28
Self Study	14	1	14
Individual Study for Mid term Examination	14	1	14
Individual Study for Final Examination	14	1	14
Homework	2	8	16
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)			89

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

	PO 1	PO 2	PO 3	PO 4	PO 5	PO 6	PO 7	PO 8	PO 9	PO 10	PO 11	PO 12	PO 13	PO 14	PO 15
LO1	4	3	4	4	4	4	3	4	4	3	4	5	4	4	4

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