COURSE UNIT TITLE

: GENERAL GEOLOGY

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
DYT 1003 GENERAL GEOLOGY COMPULSORY 3 2 0 4

Offered By

Natural Building Stones Technology

Level of Course Unit

Short Cycle Programmes (Associate's Degree)

Course Coordinator

DOCTOR RAMAZAN HACIMUSTAFAOĞLU

Offered to

Natural Building Stones Technology

Course Objective

To provide students basic concepts and methods of the earth sciences, main characteristics of the earth and basic internal and external processes forming the earth.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   able to know basic principles of geology
2   able to know general characteristics of the interior earth
3   able to define rocks in hand specimens and in the field
4   able to understand the main internal and external processes forming the earth
5   able to correlate rocks and structures in time and space

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to Geology Basic terms of mapping
2 Interior structure of the crust Basic terms of topographical mapping
3 Minerals Topographical mapping
4 magmatism and the magmatic rocks-plutonic rocks Basic terms of Geological mapping
5 magmatism and the magmatic rocks-volcanic rocks
6 sedimentology and the sedimentary rocks
7 metamorphism and the metamorphic rocks
8 Midterm exam
9 Basic Principle of Geology, relative age and stratigraphy
10 Geological time and Plate tectonics

Recomended or Required Reading

Genel Jeoloji-Temel Kavramlar
Luthens, Tarbuck, Tasa (Çeviri editörü: Prof. Dr. Cahit Helvacı)
-Fiziksel Jeoloji, TMMOB, JMO yayınları (Yayına hazırlayanlar: Dirik, K ve Şener, M)
Physical Geology, Press, F. and Siever, R Understanding Earth. Plummer, CC and McGeary, Wm. C. Brown Publishers
- Thompson, G.R., Turk, J., Earth Sicience and the Environment, Saunders College publishing, 1993
Lab textbook and rock-hand specimens

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Theory, Lab., field study, homework

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 PRC PRACTICE
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.35 + PRC * 0.15 + FIN * 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.35 + PRC * 0.15 + RST * 0.50


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

able to know basic principles of geology mid term-final-resit
able to know general characteristics of the interior earth-- mid term-final-resit
able to define rocks in hand specimens and in the field lab

able to understand the main internal and external processes forming the earth-- mid term-final-resit
able to correlate rocks and structures in time and space-- mid term-final-resit

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Optional, if the instructor needs to add some explanation or further note, this column can be selected from the DEBIS menu.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

altug.hasozbek@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Tutorials 12 2 24
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 1 13
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Preparation for quiz etc. 2 5 10
Field study 1 5 5
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
Quiz etc. 2 1 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 112

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10
LO.11
LO.211
LO.3111
LO.41
LO.511