COURSE UNIT TITLE

: SUSTAINABLE FOOD MANAGEMENT

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
GMS 5018 SUSTAINABLE FOOD MANAGEMENT COMPULSORY 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Gastronomy and Culinary Arts

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR PINAR IŞILDAR

Offered to

Gastronomy and Culinary Arts

Course Objective

It is to aim the necessary knowledge and skills about sustainable food management by examining food systems within the framework of sSustainability and sustainable development principles.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To learn the concepts, philosophy and principles of sustainability and sustainable development
2   To have knowledge about food and sustainable food systems
3   To be able to integrate environmental, social and economic sustainability with food management.
4   To be able to follow current developments with Sustainable Food Management.
5   To be able to follow current developments in Sustainable Food Management, to develop new methods and systems
6   To be able to monitor global food supply and demand and sustainable food systems, to make comparative analyzes

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Sustainability and sustainable development concepts
2 Food supply and demand, global assessments
3 Food Systems
4 Food production, logistics and consumption
5 Sustainable food production
6 Sustainable Agriculture
7 Sustainable Foods
8 Sustainable Foods
9 Food waste
10 Fair Trade
11 Geographical Marking
12 National and international legislation on sustainable food
13 Managing sustainable foods from production to consumption and examples from the World
14 Sustainable food supply and demand projection in the future, statistical evaluations
15 Final exam
16 Final exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Pınar Işıldar (2021). Destinasyon Yönetiminde Yeni Yaklaşımlar , Edt: Karasakal, S. Ve Doğan, O., Nobel Akademik Yayıncılıktan, Ankara, Syf.235-260.
Aslı Emine Özen De Haas, Pınar Işıldar, Özay Emre Yıldız (2021), Sustainable Gastronomy Tourism and The Global Food Industry , Global Issues in Business and Organization Studies, Edt: Erhan Aydin, Mushfiqur Rahman, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, p.123-150.
Zümrüt Begüm Ögel (2019). Destinasyonlarda Sürdürülebilir Gıda Yönetimi, Papatya Bilim, Istanbul.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, Presentation, Case studies, Articles

Assessment Methods

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


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

1.Midterm: Midterm consist of chapters in the syllabus and weekly homeworks (%40)
2. Final : Consists of all the chapters in the syllabus and students will be responsible from all case studies, applications, homeworks and discussions in the class (%60)

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

The student is required to be at class on time.
The student is expected to obey the rules of the classroom and the school.
The student is expected to attend the course regularly.
The student is expected to fulfil his responsibilities such as passing the exams

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Doç. Dr. Pınar Işıldar
pinar.isildar@deu.edu.tr
0232 301 69 28

Office Hours

Tuesday, 13:00-14:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 2 28
Preparation for midterm exam 1 15 15
Preparation for final exam 1 15 15
Preparing presentations 1 15 15
Midterm 1 1 1
Final 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 117

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6
LO.155
LO.255
LO.35
LO.45
LO.55
LO.65