COURSE UNIT TITLE

: NATURE, ENVIRONMENT AND URBANIZATION

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MSI 2024 NATURE, ENVIRONMENT AND URBANIZATION ELECTIVE 2 0 0 2

Offered By

Faculty of Engineering

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR ALPER ÇABUK

Offered to

Environmental Engineering
Textile Engineering
Mining Engineering (Evening)
Geological Engineering (Evening)
Geophysical Engineering
Civil Engineering
Mining Engineering
Mechanical Engineering (Evening)
Civil Engineering (Evening)
Industrial Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Geological Engineering
Metallurgical and Materials Engineering

Course Objective

The aim is to gain ability of understanding the types, effects and dimensions of modern environmental issues with their concepts.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Human and natural environment relations
2   Allocation of renewable and non-renewable natural resources
3   Non-renewable and non-recycable natural resoruces: petroleum, natural gas, coal and uranium
4   Recycable natural resoruces: metals, paper, glass etc., water resources
5   Importance of environmental impact assesment reports
6   Knowlegde on environmental legislation and existing environmental problems at national and international level

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Types of pollution
2 Actual and potential environmental problems in Türkiye
3 Modern approaches to the environment and environmental strategies
4 International dimensions of environmental problems
5 International dimensions of environmental problems
6 Urbanization and environmental issues
7 Urbanization and environmental issues
8 Midterm exam
9 Environmental problems in cities
10 Short term measures
11 Long term measures
12 Environmental laws, regulations, and applications
13 Environmental laws, regulations, and applications
14 Basic suggestions to sove the environmental problems

Recomended or Required Reading

To be announced.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

presentations and seminar

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.50 + FIN * 0.50
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.50 + RST * 0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

%50 midterm
%50 final exam

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Eskisehir Anatolian University Department of Architecture 2 Eylül Campus

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Tutorials 13 2 26
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 48

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11
LO.11
LO.22
LO.3
LO.425
LO.5
LO.62