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Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type Of Course	D	U	L	ECTS
BYT 5012	MICROALGAE: BIOTECHNOLOGY AND MICROBIOLOGY	ELECTIVE	3	0	0	9

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR RAZIYE ÖZTÜRK ÜREK

Offered to

Ph.D. in Biotechnology
Ph.D. in Biotechnology
BIOTECHNOLOGY

Course Objective

Algea have constituted approximately one third of the world's plant biomass. They extremely rich in carbohydrate, protein, fatty acid and the pigment contents have the possibility of great use in food, pharmaceutical and medicine. They are utilized as organic fertilizer in agricultural areas as well as consuming nutrients in especially developing countries. The large scale and economical productions of microalgea for biotechnological studies are of great importance. The aim in this course is to represent the biotechnological importance, production stages and biochemistry of microalgea.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1	students explain algal production systems,
2	students discuss and contact between the culture media and conditions of the algal strain selection
3	students express the large scale in microalgal systems and make algal classification
4	students evaluate microalgea and their products in term of their kinetics
5	students explain and discuss the applications of microalgae

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week	Subject	Description
1	Introduction
2	Algae Production Systems
3	Culture Medium
4	Culturing Methods
5	Scaling Up
6	Algal Classification
7	Strain Selection
8	Microalgae in biotechnology
9	Measurement of Growth Kinetics and Algal Growth Rate
10	Large Scale Culturing
11	Product Output
12	Chemical Composition
13	Applications of Algae
14	Student Presentations

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s): Galanakis C.M., Microalgae: Cultivation, Recovery of Compounds and Applications. Academic Press, 2020.
Becker, E. W. Microalgae Biotechnology and Microbiology, Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Supplementary Book(s): Richmond, A. Handbook of Microalgal Culture: Biotechnology and Applied Phycology, Blackwell Science, 2004.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. Presentation
2. Question-answer technique
3. Homework

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER	SHORT CODE	LONG CODE	FORMULA
1	MTE	MIDTERM EXAM
2	ASG	ASSIGNMENT
3	FIN	FINAL EXAM
4	FCG	FINAL COURSE GRADE	MTE 0.35 + ASG 0.25 +FIN *0.40
5	RST	RESIT
6	FCGR	FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT)	MTE 0.35 + ASG 0.25 +RST *0.40

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Assessment Criteria

Meaningful learning of the basic concepts given in presentations, association of concepts with each other, establishing the cause-result relationships and making comments by using the information available for problems and evaluating idea generation are carried out with mid-term, final and resit exams, homework and presentations.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Dokuz Eylul University, Faculty of Science, Chemistry Department.
E-mail: raziye.urek@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Wednesday 15.00-16.00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities	Number	Time (hours)	Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures	14	3	42
Preparation before/after weekly lectures	14	3	42
Preparation for Mid-term Exam	1	42	42
Preparation for Final Exam	1	50	50
Preparing Homework and Presentations	1	34	34
Final	1	2	2
Mid-term	1	1	1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)			213

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LO	PO.1	PO.2	PO.3	PO.4	PO.5	PO.6
LO.1	4	4	5	3	3	5
LO.2	4	4	5	3	3	5
LO.3	3	3	3	3	3	5
LO.4	4	4	4	3	3	5
LO.5	5	5	5	5	3	5

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Description of Individual Course Units

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Level of Course Unit

Course Coordinator

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Course Objective

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

Mode of Delivery

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

Recomended Optional Programme Components

Course Contents

Recomended or Required Reading

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Assessment Criteria

Language of Instruction

Course Policies and Rules

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Office Hours

Work Placement(s)

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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