COURSE UNIT TITLE

: THE SURVIVAL TECHNIQUES IN THE NATURE

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
TOR 3055 THE SURVIVAL TECHNIQUES IN THE NATURE ELECTIVE 2 0 0 2

Offered By

Natural Building Stones Technology

Level of Course Unit

Short Cycle Programmes (Associate's Degree)

Course Coordinator

RECEP KIRIŞ

Offered to

Industrial Glass and Ceramics
Mining Technology
Natural Building Stones Technology
Drilling Technology
GEOTECHNICS
Welding Technology
Civil Defense And Firefighting Programme

Course Objective

The aim of this course is to increase students' ability to survive in nature. To increase their interest in nature.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Create a safe campsite. Performs camp breakdown.
2   Learn about making fire in nature.
3   Knows search and rescue signs.
4   Demonstrates ethical behavior.
5   First aid is applied in difficult situations in nature.
6   Learn about finding water in nature.
7   Learning about shelter in nature and edibles.
8   Learning about edible and inedible products in nature.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Survival materials
2 How to light a fire, campfire, types of tinder and preparation
3 Fishing and methods, types of fish, baits and cooking
4 Shelter making and types of shelter
5 Edible seeds and fruits, poisonous plants
6 Desert types, desert travel and appropriate clothing
7 Life on a life raft
8 Edible invertebrates, poisonous invertebrates
9 Midterm Exam
10 First aid in injuries, Establishing a safe campsite
11 Sod-made adobe house, log cabin, tent setup
12 Deterioration of the campsite
13 Water in nature; sources, purification, where to look for, diseases
14 Search and rescue signals; aircraft management, Morse code, use of markers

Recomended or Required Reading

will be announced.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Cooperative learning method, group work, computer-based learning, presentation technique. question-answer technique, case study, problem-based learning, brainstorming.

Assessment Methods

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


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Midterm and final exams will be held to evaluate the students' meaningful learning of the basic concepts given in the presentations, their ability to relate the concepts to each other, to establish cause-effect relationships, to comment on questions or problems using their existing knowledge, and to evaluate their idea generation.

I. Midterm exam: 50%
II. Final exam: 50%
III. Resit exam

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

will be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Dokuz Eylül University, Torbalı Vocational School
Lect. Recep KIRIŞ
recep.kiris@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

will be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 2 28
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 1 13
Preparation for midterm exam 1 3 3
Preparation for final exam 1 4 4
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 50

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10
LO.153
LO.25
LO.35
LO.45
LO.55
LO.65
LO.75
LO.85

CONTACT INFORMATION
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Phone: +90(232) 412 12 12 - Fax: +90 (232) 464 81 35

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