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
TAB-23-123	MEASUREMENT METHODS AND CHARACTERISTICS OF MEADOW AND RANGE VEGETATIONS	Elective	1	2	6

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle

Objectives of the Course

1. To increase the students’ knowledge levels about measurement methods and characteristics of meadow and range vegetations 2. To create awareness that besides legumes and grasses families in meadows and ranges, there was the plant species belonging to other families grazed by animals 3. To increase the students’ experience about how to evaluate meadow and ranges vegetation etudes 4. To gain experience how meadows-ranges have an important situation in terms of soil erosion prevention and the animal breeding 5. To gain the correct usage experience of these areas by teaching the vegetation measurement methods of meadows-ranges 6. To create awareness that weed species being harmful to animals may be in meadows-ranges 7. To produce practical methods and to gain skills for the problem solving 8. To improve their necessary levels of infrastructure in scientific studies.

Name of Lecturer(s)

Doç. Dr. Süleyman TEMEL

Learning Outcomes

1	Students create awareness the mistake performed in management and rehabilitation works carried out meadows and ranges
2	Students practice how to prepare herbariums
3	Students become skilful the diagnosing to species in meadows and ranges
4	Students critically gain the thinking ability.

Mode of Delivery

Daytime Class

Prerequisites and co-requisities

Absent

Recommended Optional Programme Components

Absent

Course Contents

The course contents is to determine the quality levels of vegetations in consideration of this information and to present the theoretical and practical information related to important etude and measurement methods (transect, loop, point-frame, quadrant, cover scale, weight, visual estimation and pantograph) used to measure of qualitative and quantitative, synthetic characteristics of meadow-range covers.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Theoretical	Practice	Laboratory
1	Importance and definition of meadows and ranges	Discussion and question-answer about topics
2	Qualitative characteristics of meadows-ranges covers	Discussion and question-answer about topics
3	Quantitative characteristics of meadows-ranges covers	Discussion and question-answer about topics
4	Synthetic characteristics of meadows-ranges covers	Discussion and question-answer about topics
5	Sampling and sampling methods	Discussion and question-answer about topics
6	Vegetation characteristics measured with these methods and methods used in vegetation etudes	Discussion and question-answer about topics
7	Assessment of data provided in vegetation etudes	Discussion and question-answer about topics
8	Quiz
9	Determination of rangeland sites and mapping of rangelands	Field Survey
10	Classification of rangeland conditions	Field Survey
11	Applied methods and determination of grazing capacity	Field Survey
12	Poisonous plants in meadows-ranges	Field Survey
13	Thorn plants in meadows-ranges	Field Survey
14	Alliaceous plants in meadows-ranges	Field Survey
15	Unpalatable plants in meadows-ranges	Field Survey
16	Final Exam

Recommended or Required Reading

Text Book: 1. Avcıoğlu, R, 1996. Çayır Mera Bitki Topluluklarının Özellikleri ve İncelenmesi. (II. Basım). Eğe Üniv. Ziraat Fak. Yay. No: 466, İzmir. 2. Gökkuş, A., Koç, A. ve B. Çomaklı, 2000. Çayır - Mer’a Uygulama Kılavuzu. Atatürk Üniversitesi Ziraat Fakültesi Yayınları No : 142, 139 s., Erzurum. Suggested References: 1. Mera Kanunu Eğitim ve Uygulama El Kitabı, 1999. Çayır-Mera Amenajmanı ve Islahı. Çayır_Mera Yem bitkileri ve Havza Geliştirme Daire Başkanlığı, Ankara. 2. Türkiye’nin Çayır ve Mera Bitkileri, 2008. T.C. Tarım ve Köyişleri Bakanlığı, Tarımsal Üretim ve Geliştirme Genel Müdürlüğü, 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		50
End Of Term (or Year) Learning Activities		50
SUM		100

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)

Absent

Workload Calculation

Activities	Number	Time (hours)	Total Work Load (hours)
Midterm Examination	1	1	1
Final Examination	1	2	2
Attending Lectures	14	4	56
Practice	7	2	14
Problem Solving	3	1	3
Discussion	7	2	14
Question-Answer	7	2	14
Field Work	7	2	14
Self Study	14	2	28
Individual Study for Mid term Examination	1	8	8
Individual Study for Final Examination	1	10	10
Homework	2	8	16
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)			180

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	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
LO2	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
LO3	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
LO4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4

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