COURSE UNIT TITLE

: ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS AND EDUCATION

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ISÖ 6023 ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS AND EDUCATION ELECTIVE 3 0 0 7

Offered By

Primary Teacher Education

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR HÜLYA HAMURCU

Offered to

Primary Teacher Education

Course Objective

Environmental components and efficacy information on environmental education.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   General information on environmental.
2   Being able to have a vision regarding the use of environmental and environmental problems in primary education.
3   Being able to gain experience on the environmental and environmental problems in primary education.
4   Being able to gain knowledge on information of environmental.
5   Being able to be directive on solution of the environmental problems.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Environment, ecology and environmental terminology.
2 Basic concepts on ecology.
3 Energy and matter cycles, inspection of population.
4 Great ecosystems.
5 Ecological problems of humanity.
6 Environmental problems.
7 Environmental protection in Turkey and World.
8 General review, course evaluation, midterm exam
9 Environmental protection in the world and in Turkey.
10 Prevention of environmental problems.
11 Natural protection areas and their management in Turkey.
12 Environmental law, politics, economy, healthy, management and planning.
13 Evaluation of environmental effect.
14 Foundations and agreements on environment.
15 Final Exam.

Recomended or Required Reading

Yıldız, K.. Sipahioğlu. Ş., Yılmaz. M.. Çevre Bilimi, Gündüz Yayınları,Ankara. 2000.
Kocataş A.. Ekoloji, Çevre Biyolojisi. Ege Üniversitesi Basımevi. Izmir. 2002.
Ayvaz. Z.. Çevre Eğitimine Giriş. Çevre Eğilimi Merkezi yayınları. 1998.
Topbaş M. T., Brohi A. R., Karaman M. R. (1998): Çevre Kirliliği. T.C. Çevre Bakanlığı Yayınları, Ankara, Türkiye.
Çepel, N. Çevre ve insan Ankara: Etam Matbaası 1995.
Çevre Sorunları. Türkiye Çevre vakfı, Ankara, 1993.
Erdem, Ü., Doğan, F., Erdem Ü., Henden, E., Onoğur, E., Öztürk, M., Türkan, I., Nurlu, E., Sunlu, U. (2000): Çevre Bilimi-Sürdürülebilir Dünya. Çeviri Kitabı, Ege Üniversitesi Çevre Sorunları Uygulama ve Araştırma Merkezi Yayın No:1, 1. Baskı, 1-508, Bornova, Izmir.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, presentation, demonstration, discussion, question-answer, case-study, cooperative learning techniques.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FINS FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + FINS * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 2 26
Preparation for midterm exam 13 4 52
Preparation for final exam 13 4 52
Midterm 1 1 1
Final 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 171

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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