COURSE UNIT TITLE

: NATURAL HISTORY AND EVOLUTION

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
JEO 3157 NATURAL HISTORY AND EVOLUTION ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Geological Engineering

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR FUNDA AKGÜN

Offered to

Geological Engineering

Course Objective

Following aims will be reached as a result of this course;
a) As of the formation of world and emergence of first living organisms, the concept of
evolution and their mechanisms will be taught to students.
b) To provide an understanding of changes in living organisms on the basis of evolution
concepts of living and fossils records

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To be able to learn the living organisms originating from ancestral species lived in the past geological periods.
2   To be able to understand the processes and mechanisms appearing of a new species.
3   To be able to comprehend not only single individuals of a new species but also changing of some individuals in population.
4   Based on the fossil and current records, to be able to realize that the species change constantly.
5   to be able to associate evolutionary processes with human evolution

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Big-Bang theory
2 The aspects of inorganic and organic evolution
3 Geological time and the origin of life
4 Emergence and development of the theory of evolution
5 Theories of Evolution: Lamarckism, Darwinism, Mutationism, NeoDarwinism
6 Evolutionary processes: genetic variation, mutation, adaptation, naturel selection, genetic drift and migrations
7 Microevolution
8 Rate of evolution and phylogeny
9 Speciation, biological, geographical and morphological species, mutations that create new species,
10 Macroevolution
11 Fossil Evidence; Vestigial structures, Distribution in time and space, Direct observation,
12 History of life on Earth
13 Human evolution
14 Evaluation of the evolutionary tree showing the phylogenetic relationship between species

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Demirsoy, A. (1999) Kalıtım ve Evrim, Meteksan Yayınları, Ankara
2. Freeman, S.& Herron, J.C (2002) Evrimsel analiz, Çev. ed. Çıplak, B. vd. Palme
Yay., Ankara
Yardımcı kaynaklar:
1. Gould, S., J., 1977, Darwin ve sonrası, Türkiye Bilimsel Araştırma Kurumu, Popüler
Bilim Kitapları, no. 125, 313s
2. Şengün, A & Ulakoğlu, S. (1992) Evrim (Evolusyon), Ist. Üni. Yay. No: 3629. Ist.
Üni. Basımevi, Istanbul.
3. Bilim ve Teknik, 1999, Canlıların evrimi, Türkiye Bilimsel Araştırma Kurumu, Aylık
popüler bilim dergisi, sayı 375, 104s.
4. http://evrimağacı.org
5. Kampourakis, K, 2014. Understanding Evolution. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge
University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-03491-4.
6. Demirsoy, A., 2017. Evrim, 412 s.. Asi KitapYayınları, Istanbul. ISBN:978-605-9331-
60-9
7. Şengün, A & Ulakoğlu, S., 1992. Evrim (Evolusyon), Ist. Üni. Yay. No: 3629. Ist.
Üni. Basımevi, Istanbul.
8. Mayr, E., 1997. Evolution and the Diversity of Life: Selected Essays. ISBN-13 :
978-0674271050

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Oral and visual presentations, homework and discussion.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 PRJ PROJECT
4 FIN FINAL EXAM
5 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.20 + ASG * 0.20 + PRJ * 0.20 + FIN * 0.40
6 BUT Bütünleme Notu
7 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.20 + ASG * 0.20 + PRJ * 0.20 + RST * 0.40


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Evaluation of this course will be made by a midterm exam (20%), a final exam (40%), a homework (20%) and project (20%).Each student presents the homework and project he/she has prepared in class.
All students must come to the class by preparing topics that are not related to homework and project. All issues are handled by interactive manner.

Assessment Criteria

Learning outcome (1) will be testified by midterm, project and final exam.
The other learning outcomes (2, 3 and 4) will be testified by homework, project and exams.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Students are required to attend lectures regularly and participate in dicussions.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

e mail: funda.akgun@deu.edu.tr
tel: 0232-3017261

Office Hours


on Thursday, between 15-17 hours

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 1 14
Preparation for midterm exam 1 20 20
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Project Preparation 1 20 20
Preparing assignments 1 20 20
Midterm 1 1,5 2
Final 1 1,5 2
Project Final Presentation 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 141

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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