COURSE UNIT TITLE

: GENERAL GEOLOGY

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
JEO 1013 GENERAL GEOLOGY COMPULSORY 2 0 0 3

Offered By

Geological Engineering

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ERHAN AKAY

Offered to

Mining Engineering
Mining Engineering (Evening)

Course Objective

to teach first-year students geology as a science, its basic principles, characteristics of the eart and basic internal and external proccesses forming the earth.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Knows the basic principles of Earth Sciencs
2   Knows the characteistics of the Earth
3   able to understand the basic working and thinking principles of Geology
4   able to understand the basic internal and external processes forming the earth crust
5   able to correlate the geological events and structuras in time and space
6   able to understand the relationships between geological events-structures and occurrences of the natural resources

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to Earth-Basic princples
2 Minerals
3 Rocks
4 Magmatism and magmatic rocks
5 Metamorphism and metamorphic rocks
6 Sedimentation and sedimentary rocks
7 1. Midterm exam
8 Geological time and aging the rocks
9 Stratigraphy
10 Faults
11 Folds
12 Plate tectonics I
13 Plate tectonics II
14 2. Midterm exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbooks:
1. Ketin, I Genel Jeoloji. ITÜ Vakfı
2. Monroe, JS and Wicander, R Fiziksel Jeoloji. TMMOB, JMO yayınları (Yayına hazırlayanlar: Dirik, K ve Şener, M.
Supplementary Books:
1. Press, F. and Siever, R Understanding Earth. Plummer, CC and McGeary, D Physical Geology. Wm. C. Brown Publishers
2. Thompson, GR and Turk, J Earth Science and The Environment. Saunders College Publishing Wicander, R and Monroe, JS Essentials of Geology West Publishing Company

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Interactive courses, mid-term project

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.50 + FIN * 0.50
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.50 + RST * 0.50


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

LO 1-6 Mid-term, final and make-up exams

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

232 301 7326

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 2 24
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 1 12
Preparation for midterm exam 2 10 20
Preparation for final exam 1 15 15
Preparing assignments 1 10 10
Final 1 1,5 2
Midterm 1 1,5 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 85

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15
LO.1335
LO.23335
LO.33335
LO.43335
LO.54435
LO.6443454