COURSE UNIT TITLE

: AGRICULTURAL COOPERATION

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
TAR 4231 AGRICULTURAL COOPERATION COMPULSORY 3 0 0 4

Offered By

Agricultural Management

Level of Course Unit

Short Cycle Programmes (Associate's Degree)

Course Coordinator

DILEK YÜCEL ENGINDENIZ

Offered to

Agricultural Management (Evening)
Agricultural Management

Course Objective

At the end of this course students gaining the skills about how to organise farmers under the cooperative organizations and Its working principles.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Being able to explain definition and principles of agricultural cooperatives, to evaluate difference between cooperatives and companies.
2   Being able to evaluate circumstance and legal regulations of cooperatives in Turkey and the World.
3   Being able to explain important of organization in agriculture.
4   Being able to ability of the cooperatives for the rural development as a tool.
5   Being able to commend works of agricultural cooperatives in Turkey and the World.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The mean of cooperative and it s contents
2 Cooperation models in agriculture, organizations and fundemental targets
3 Cooperative movements and development in some countries and Turkey
4 Cooperative principles and some features from the other different companies
5 Cooperatives and economic systems and cooperative-state relations
6 Managerial board of cooperatives and its responsibilities and charges, Legislative statu of cooperative and some official procedure for forming cooperatives
7 Mid-Term Exam
8 Mid-Term Exam
9 Audit of Cooperatives, finansing of cooperatives
10 Integration between cooperatives and federative poisitions
11 Clustring of cooperatives and the form of cooperatives faced in the practices
12 Cooperatives faced in the practices
13 Cooperatives faced in the practices in Turkey
14 Policy implementations on agricultural cooperatives in Turkey-Case studies, general evaluation of Turkish cooperatives, Problems and some proposals

Recomended or Required Reading

Çıkın, A., Karacan, A.R., Genel Kooperatifçilik, Ege Ün. Basımevi, 1994, Izmir.
Mülayim, Z.G., Kooperatifçilik, Yetkin Yayınları, 2003. Ankara.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. Lecturing
2. Questions-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 12 3 36
Tutorials 12 0 0
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 2 24
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) 92

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.111
LO.2111
LO.311
LO.411
LO.511