COURSE UNIT TITLE

: PSICOACTIVE PLANTS

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
BYL 5056 PSICOACTIVE PLANTS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR KEREM CANLI

Offered to

Ph.D. in Biology
Biology

Course Objective

What are psychoactive plants Direct and indirect mechanisms of action, agonist & antagonist concepts, traditional uses, daily use, medical uses.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Learning what are psychoactive plants.
2   Learning extraction methods
3   Learning psychoactive plant culture
4   Learning importance of psychoactive plants
5   Learning the mechanisms of psychoactive plants

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Psychoactive plants
2 Mechanisms of action - Agonist - Antagonist mechanisms
3 Systematic distributions of psychoactive plants
4 Traditional uses
5 Psychoactive plants in daily use
6 Psychoactive plants in medical use
7 Midterm
8 Stimulants & drugs & hallucinogens
9 Psychoactive plant culture
10 Extraction methods
11 Psychoactive drug production techniques
12 Laboratory analysis of psychoactive substances
13 Narcotic substances
14 Plant toxicity
15 Final exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Sayın, Ü., Psikoaktif bitkiler, Tantra Akademi 2016

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

The course is taught in a lecture, class presentation and discussion format. All class members are expected to attend and both the lecture and take part in the discussion sessions. Besides the taught lecture, group presentations are to be prepared by the groups assigned for that week and presented to open a discussion session.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 QUZ QUIZ
3 ASG ASSIGNMENT
4 FIN FINAL EXAM
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE* 0.30 + QUZ * 0.10 + ASG * 0.10 + FIN * 0.50
6 RST RESIT
7 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE* 0.30 + QUZ * 0.10 + ASG * 0.10 + RST * 0.50


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Student will be evaluated with midterm exams, quiz, homework presentation and final exam.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Attendance to at least 70% for the lectures is an essential requirement of this course and is the responsibility of the student. It is necessary that attendance to the lecture and homework delivery must be on time. Any unethical behavior that occurs either in presentations or in exams will be dealt with as outlined in school policy

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

kerem.canli@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

will 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 1 13 13
Preparation for final exam 1 13 13
Preparation for quiz etc. 4 3 12
Preparing assignments 13 2 26
Preparing presentations 6 2 12
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
Quiz etc. 4 1 4
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 149

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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