COURSE UNIT TITLE

: PROTECTED CROPS GROWING

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
TAR 4114 PROTECTED CROPS GROWING ELECTIVE 2 0 0 3

Offered By

Agricultural Management

Level of Course Unit

Short Cycle Programmes (Associate's Degree)

Course Coordinator

DOCTOR YASEMIN ERGÜNER

Offered to

Agricultural Management (Evening)
Agricultural Management

Course Objective

To understand important of greenhouse farming and introduce to items of greenhouse farming system, explain difference of ecological and socioeconomic factors that are important for greenhouse farming and teach cultivation techniques that use in greenhouse farming.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Being able to explain state of undercover agriculture in Türkiye and the World.
2   Being able to evaluate benefits of undercover agriculture in short and long time.
3   Being able to explain using technologies and growing techniques in greenhouses.
4   Being able to evaluate effects on plants of these circumstances and environmental circumstances that consist climate of greenhouse, erect of greenhouse, prepare a greenhouse project, operate of greenhouse.
5   Being able to commend knowledge related undercover agriculture.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Definition of growing undercover
2 Historical development of growing undercover in Türkiye and the World
3 Categorization of growing undercover according to different chracteristics
4 Technical items for producing of greenhouse
5 Ecological factors effect on place choice of greenhouse I
6 Ecological factors effect on place choice of greenhouse II
7 Economic factors effect on place choice of greenhouse
8 Mid-Term Exam
9 Actors that take into considering in growing undercover
10 Important of air conditioning ( heating, cooling, air conditioning, humidify, lighting, CO2 fertilizing) respect to plants in growing undercover
11 Soil preparing in growing undercover (drainage, cleaning, cultivation of soil)
12 Soil preparing in growing undercover (fertilization of soil, salinity and eliminate of salinity)
13 Soilless culture in greenhouse
14 Using growing techniques in greenhouse (vegetable, ornamental plants)
15 General Evaluation and Review
16 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Main books :
1. Sevgican A., 2003. Örtüaltı Yetiştiriciliği (Cilt I. Topraklı Tarım). Ege Üniv. Ziraat Fak. Yayınları No:526. Bornova
2. Sevgican, A., 2003. Örtüaltı Yetiştiriciliği (Cilt II. Topraksız Tarım). Ege Üniv. Ziraat Fak. Yayınları No:526. Bornova.

Suplementary books:
1. Titiz, S., 2004. Modern Seracılık-Yatırımcıya Yol Haritası. ANSIAD Yayınları. Antalya

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. Lecturing
2. Question- answer
3. Active participation

Assessment Methods

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


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Learning outcomes will be assessed by mid-term and final exams.

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 14 2 28
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 1 14
Preparation for midterm exam 1 15 15
Preparation for final exam 1 15 15
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 74

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.11
LO.21
LO.31
LO.411
LO.5111