COURSE UNIT TITLE

: AGRICULTURAL LAW

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ELECTIVE

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

At the end of this course, students learn the basic concepts of law, legal practices in agriculture, the current understanding, social and ethical values related to agricultural production in addition to their statutory duties and responsibilities.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Being able to examine sources of law and specifies related to agriculture in the constitution and the civil law.
2   Being able to clarify legal problems faced by the agricultural employees.
3   Being able to examine main law groups related to agriculture, agrarian reform laws and laws related to co-operatives.
4   Being able to determine the authorization of the public and legal persons in agricultural sector.
5   Being able to collect information related to labor law for agricultural workers and social security of employed in agriculture on his own behalf

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Basic concepts related to agricultural law I
2 Basic concepts related to agricultural law II
3 Rulings on the Constitution of T.C. agriculture
4 Agriculture T.C.Medeni Law Provisions (for Turkey laws)
5 Water Law
6 Pasture Law, Forest Law I
7 Pasture Law, Forest Law II
8 Mid-term exam
9 The law on co-operatives I
10 The law on co-operatives II
11 Groups of other laws relating to agriculture
12 Agricultural Workers Labour Law, Agriculture Expert
13 Social Security of own-account workers in agriculture
14 Laws Regulating Working life
15 General Evaluation and Review
16 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Main texbook: Aksoy, S., 2008, Tarım Hukuku, Ankara Üniversitesi Yayınları, Yayın No: 907, Ankara.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. Presentation
2. Question-Answer
3. Active Participation
4. Sample Solution

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


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Mid-term exam and final exam to measure learning outcomes and the learning outcomes that will be followed in reaching the stage of the student.

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 1 14
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 1 14
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 15 15
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 55

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.311
LO.41
LO.51