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
0701106102	MEADOW AND RANGE AMENDMENT	Elective	3	6	2

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle

Objectives of the Course

The basic objectives of this course are to make up sound and right consciousness in agricultural engineer candidates by presenting basic knowledges relevant to natural meadow, range and mountain pastures which are very important to Turkey, and to make them equipped with and improve their abilities to solve proslems about these areas.

Name of Lecturer(s)

Learning Outcomes

1	Student reaches the conscious that there are large areas characterized by meadow and range in Turkey.
2	Knows that the range and meadow have very important place in the herbage production.;
3	Learn that range and meadow have great role in preserviay soil and water.;
4	Learn the reality that the range and meadow have great potential as gene resource.;
5	Carries the conscious that there are needs fort he urgent and radical ameliorations on dejenerated ranges and meadows and feels to attend to these Works as an aducetted stuff.;
6	Atributes to the utilization of ranges and meadows being used casually and to take under control in the frame of prenciples and programming way.;

Mode of Delivery

Daytime Class

Prerequisites and co-requisities

None

Recommended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Meadow-range culture, history, concepts and definations Importance of meadow-range and using areas Range, meadow and uplands and their scottering in Turkey The classification of Ranges and Meadows Grazing systems (free grazing, controlled grazing)

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Theoretical	Practice	Laboratory
1	Meadow-range culture, history, concepts and definations Importance of meadow-range and using areas	Quality characters of plant communities
2	Range, meadow and uplands and their scottering in Turkey The classification of Ranges and Meadows	Quality characters of plant communities
3	Plant morphology and management relation Reproduction of meadow-range plants and the importance of this in the management	Cantitatif characters of Ranges and Meadows
4	Proportion biology of meado range plants	Cantitatif characters of Ranges and Meadows
5	Meadow range ecology	Synhetic characters of plant communities
6	Meadow Management and Maintenance	Transect method
7	Conservation of fresh forages Profiting from ranges and their maintanence	Transect method
8	Midterm Exam
9	Range manegament and its prenciples	Lup method
10	Grazing systems (free grazing, controlled grazing)	Quadrat method
11	Controlled grazing systems Hohenheim grazing system Results and suggestions	Point-frame method
12	Weed problems and struggling methods in range and meadows	The other methods
13	Fertilization of ranges and meadows	The other methods
14	Range law
15	General review of courses content
16	Final Exam

Recommended or Required Reading

F. TOSUN, M. ALTIN, 1981. Çayır-Mera-Yayla Kültürü ve Bunlardan Faydalanma Yöntemleri, Ondokuzmayıs Ü. Ziraat Fakültesi, SAMSUN. A. GÖKKUŞ, A. KOÇ, 2001. Mera ve Çayır Yönetimi. Atatürk Ü. Ziraat Fakültesi, ERZURUM. Ö. BAKIR, 1985. Çayır ve Mera Islahı. Ankara Ü. Ziraat Fakültesi, ANKARA.

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

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	2	28
Individual Study for Mid term Examination	1	10	10
Individual Study for Final Examination	1	10	10
Homework	1	10	10
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)			61

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

	PO 1	PO 2	PO 3	PO 4	PO 5	PO 6	PO 7
LO1				4		3
LO2		4		2
LO3						3
LO4			3	2
LO5		2			2
LO6			4	2		2

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