| Course Unit Code | Course Unit Title | Type of Course Unit | Year of Study | Semester | Number of ECTS Credits | | İD118 | Soilless Agriculture Techniques | Elective | 1 | 2 | 6 |
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| Level of Course Unit |
| Second Cycle |
| Objectives of the Course |
| The aim of this course is to enable students to understand why soilless plant cultivation is needed, to understand the developments in soilless agriculture techniques, to understand the approaches to providing water and nutrient requirements of plants in soilless agriculture, to plan and implement commercially soilless plant cultivation, and to solve the problems they may encounter in soilless plant cultivation. |
| Name of Lecturer(s) |
| Prof.Dr.Ümmügülsüm ERDOĞAN |
| Learning Outcomes |
| 1 | Explains why soilless plant cultivation is needed. | | 2 | Defines developments in soilless farming techniques. | | 3 | Plans commercial soilless plant cultivation and identifies the problems that may be encountered in soilless plant cultivation. | | 4 | Knows the plant nutrients used in soilless agriculture. | | 5 | She helps growers with her knowledge regarding soilless agriculture. |
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| Mode of Delivery |
| Normal Education |
| Prerequisites and co-requisities |
| Not |
| Recommended Optional Programme Components |
| not |
| Course Contents |
| To explain the reasons for soilless agriculture. Producing plants in a soilless environment. Planning and applying soilless farming techniques on different plant species. To solve the problems encountered in soilless plant cultivation. To be able to determine the impact of soilless agriculture on the environment and to design production environmentally friendly. Learning soilless growing systems. |
| Weekly Detailed Course Contents |
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| 1 | Definition and development periods of soilless culture | not | not | | 2 | Reasons for switching to soilless culture and purposes of use | not | not | | 3 | Soilless culture methods (straw bales, ring culture ect.) | not | not | | 4 | Solid media culture (org. inorg.) | not | not | | 5 | Bed culture, bag-pack and pot culture | not | not | | 6 | midterm | not | not | | 7 | Substrate culture and problems that may be encountered in the use of these methods | not | not | | 8 | Nutrient solutions and their properties | not | not | | 9 | Aquaculture-hydroponics/tank culture | not | not | | 10 | Cultivation varieties in hydroponic culture | not | not | | 11 | still water culture | not | not | | 12 | Hyponica and Aeroponics | not | not | | 13 | Nutrient film technique (N.F.T.) | not | not | | 14 | Comparison of Plant Nutrition, Water and Substrate Culture in Soilless Cultivation | not | not | | 15 | final exam | not | not |
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| Recommended or Required Reading |
| Soilless Agriculture and Plant Nutrition Techniques (Prof.Dr.Burçin ÇokUYSAL, Prof.Dr. Dilek ANAÇ, Prof.Dr. Nevin ERYÜCE, ...)
Soilless Agriculture (Prof. Dr. Ayşe GÜL). |
| Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods |
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| Assessment Methods and Criteria | |
| Midterm Examination | 1 | 70 | | Field Work | 1 | 30 | | SUM | 100 | |
| Final Examination | 1 | 70 | | Seminar | 1 | 30 | | SUM | 100 | | Term (or Year) Learning Activities | 30 | | End Of Term (or Year) Learning Activities | 70 | | SUM | 100 |
| | Language of Instruction | | Turkish | | Work Placement(s) | | yok |
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| Workload Calculation |
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| Midterm Examination | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Final Examination | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Attending Lectures | 14 | 1 | 14 |
| Question-Answer | 7 | 1 | 7 |
| Field Work | 10 | 3 | 30 |
| Seminar | 7 | 9 | 63 |
| Self Study | 10 | 4 | 40 |
| Individual Study for Mid term Examination | 4 | 3 | 12 |
| Individual Study for Final Examination | 2 | 6 | 12 |
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| Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes |
| LO1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | | LO2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | | LO3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | | LO4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | | LO5 | 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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