COURSE UNIT TITLE

: GENERAL ANIMAL SCIENCE

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
VET 2007 GENERAL ANIMAL SCIENCE COMPULSORY 3 0 0 3

Offered By

Veterinary Medicine

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR METIN ÇABUK

Offered to

Course Objective

Animal husbandry and animal breeding will be given to the students the basic principles of information related to breeding, to teach the ways to access information.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Knows characters, genotype and phenotype and their elements
2   Learns gene effects, gene interactions and gene x environment interactions
3   Knows selection
4   Knows selection and breeding methods

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Livestock overview, domestication
2 Species, breed and breed characteristics
3 Exterior knowledge
4 Fertility, growth, and meat yields
5 Lactation and milk yield, constitution
6 Psychological characteristics, environment and animal
7 Breeding methods
8 Introduction and terms to the animal improvement
9 Characters, phenotype, genotype
10 The phenotypic variance components. Inheritance and repetition degrees
11 Gene effects, gene interactions and environment x gene interactions
12 Selection and elimination
13 Selection methods
14 Hereditary defects and disease resistance

Recomended or Required Reading

To be announced.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, question-answer, discussion, presentation, homework, field study.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + FIN * 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

Students will be evaluated with the questions to be asked in the midterm and final exam.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

The responsibility of continuing to 70% of theoretical courses during the semester belongs to the student.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Veteriner Fakültesi Dekanlığı, Cumhuriyet Mahallesi, Cami Sokak, No: 3, Posta Kodu: 35890, Kiraz/IZMIR

e-posta: orhan.ozbey@deu.edu.tr
Telefon: 0 (232) 572 35 30- 14502

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparation for midterm exam 1 7 7
Preparation for final exam 2 5 10
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 1 14
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 75

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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