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| Unit | INSTITUTE OF NATURAL AND APPLIED SCIENCES |
| SOIL SCIENCE AND PLANT NUTRITION (MASTER) (WITH THESIS) | |
| Code | TBB530 |
| Name | Clay Minerals in Agriculture and Earth Sciences |
| Term | 2018-2019 Academic Year |
| Term | Spring |
| Duration (T+A) | 3-0 (T-A) (17 Week) |
| ECTS | 5 ECTS |
| National Credit | 3 National Credit |
| Teaching Language | Türkçe |
| Level | Yüksek Lisans Dersi |
| Type | Normal |
| Mode of study | Yüz Yüze Öğretim |
| Catalog Information Coordinator | Doç. Dr. KEMAL YALÇIN GÜLÜT |
| Course Instructor |
The current term course schedule has not been prepared yet.
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Course Goal / Objective
Introducing the role of clay surface chemistry based on soil properties and clay technologies.
Course Content
1-) Clay minerals in soils 2-) The Structure of Dispersed Clay Minerals 3-) Interactions at the Clay Surface 4-) Colloidal Stability of Clay Suspensions
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Course Learning Outcomes
| Order | Course Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|
| LO01 | Recognising the principles of ecological farming in terms of sustainable and ecological farming, contributes to the practical use. |
| LO02 | Based on the BSc adequacy, improves in Soil Science and Plant Nutrition at specialist level |
| LO03 | Understands the interactions between Soil Science and Plant Nutrition and other disciplines |
| LO04 | Has abilities to develop and apply new ideas by identifying the taxonomic level of soils according to natural and technical classification systems and provides sustainable uses of soils using theoretical and applied knowledge in this branch and applies them to other engineering branches. |
| LO05 | Gain perfection and prepare projects in every kinds of soil, plant, fertilizer and water analyses and their interpretations |
| LO06 | Increases his/her qualification to develop new techniques and ideas for plant nutrients necessary for healthy, high quality and economical plant production and to apply these techniques and ideas in practice. |
| LO07 | Applies his/her knowledge on conservation of soils, protection against each kind of misuse and pollution by recognising the relations between other disciplines. |
| LO08 | To analyse soils, their components or actual processes, to plan them to accomplish the requirements of sustainable agriculture principles by adding information from other branches, plans/applies a new research project which might solve an existing project or makes judgements with existing information |
| LO09 | Has skills to prepare and apply a project including other disciplines and can retrieve information to solve the problems in nutrition of plants grown in every kinds of soil or soilless growth medium |
| LO10 | Creates new projects to use and to develop new technologies, methods and measuring systems in Soil Science and Plant Nutrition discipline, under the scope of scientific, economic and rational uses of agricultural areas |
| LO11 | Conducts a project working effectively as an individual and as a team member to solve problems related to the discipline. |
| LO12 | Identifies the possible and future problems in relation to his/her professional area and takes responsibility to solve them by developing new strategies |
| LO13 | Is able to get access to knowledge searching literature, databases and using other sources effectively. |
| LO14 | Makes a critical evaluation of information retaled to the field and conducts advanced studies independently. |
| LO15 | Transfers the current developments and their own studies to people who may need them by using different tools. |
Relation with Program Learning Outcome
| Order | Type | Program Learning Outcomes | Level |
|---|---|---|---|
| PLO01 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Has skills on developing and implementing new ideas on the use of soils in accordance with the natural and technical soil classification systems and the principle of sustainability by using the theoretical and practical knowledge in the field of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition and applying to other related disciplines, as well. | 1 |
| PLO02 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Gains the knowledge in the point of developing new ideas and techniques and appliying them to the practice for plant nutrients and their applications that provide healthy nutrieon of plants for a high quality and economic crop production by linking the theoretical and practical knowledge in the field of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition to the relevant fields of science | 2 |
| PLO03 | Beceriler - Bilişsel, Uygulamalı | Plans and implements a research that may present solutions to existing problems and/or makes judgments using available knowledge in order to analyze the development and change processes in which soils are in place and fulfill the requirements of sustainable agriculture principles by linking relevenat fields of science. | |
| PLO04 | Beceriler - Bilişsel, Uygulamalı | Has ability to prepare and implement projects in order to solve the problems encountered in ensuring that the plants can be fed regularly in a soil or soilless medium, by covering other disciplines, and rovides solutions by making a status determination. | |
| PLO05 | Yetkinlikler - Bağımsız Çalışabilme ve Sorumluluk Alabilme Yetkinliği | Is able to prepare independent projects to solve problems related to his/her profession or to lead the team works if needed. | |
| PLO06 | Yetkinlikler - Bağımsız Çalışabilme ve Sorumluluk Alabilme Yetkinliği | Recognizes the problems that may arise and unpredictable in the field of expertise and takes responsibility with new strategies to be developed for the solution. | |
| PLO07 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Is able to critically evaluate the information related to the field and to carry out advanced studies independently. | |
| PLO08 | Yetkinlikler - İletişim ve Sosyal Yetkinlik | Has skills to access information and for this purpose to do resource search and to use databases and other information sources. | |
| PLO09 | Yetkinlikler - İletişim ve Sosyal Yetkinlik | Conveys the innovations in her/his field and her/his works systematically in written, oral, and visual in Turkish and in English (at a minimum level of B2) as well. | |
| PLO10 | Yetkinlikler - İletişim ve Sosyal Yetkinlik | Examines social relations and the norms that direct these relations from a critical point of view and takes action to improve them. | |
| PLO11 | Yetkinlikler - Alana Özgü Yetkinlik | Develops strategy, policy and implementation plans related to the field and evaluates the obtained results within the framework of quality processes. | |
| PLO12 | Yetkinlikler - Alana Özgü Yetkinlik | Observes social, scientific and ethical values in the stages of collection, interpretation and announcement of data related to the study area, supervises and controls them. | |
| PLO13 | Yetkinlikler - Alana Özgü Yetkinlik | Carries her/his knowledge in the field and problem solving skills to interdisciplinary studies. |
Week Plan
| Week | Topic | Preparation | Methods |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The effect of soil clay minerals on productivity. | Pre-reading from lecture notes and referance books | |
| 2 | Use of clay minerals as criteria in the soil classification. | Pre-reading from lecture notes and referance books | |
| 3 | Clay minerals of soil use as criteria in the classification. | Pre-reading from lecture notes and referance books | |
| 4 | The relationship between cation and anion intake of clay minerals in the soil | Pre-reading from lecture notes and referance books | |
| 5 | The relationship between phosphor intake and clay minerals in the soil | Pre-reading from lecture notes and referance books | |
| 6 | The relationship between potassium intake and clay minerals in the soil | Pre-reading from lecture notes and referance books | |
| 7 | The relationship between ammonium intake and clay minerals in the soil | Pre-reading from lecture notes and referance books | |
| 8 | Mid-Term Exam | ||
| 9 | The mineralogical extent of the region. | Pre-reading from lecture notes and referance books | |
| 10 | The mineralogical extent of the region. | Pre-reading from lecture notes and referance books | |
| 11 | The importance of Smektit amount for the ground. | Pre-reading from lecture notes and referance books | |
| 12 | The importance of Illit amount for the ground. | Pre-reading from lecture notes and referance books | |
| 13 | The importance of Kaolin amount for the ground. | Pre-reading from lecture notes and referance books | |
| 14 | Behaviour of the land in the region | Pre-reading from lecture notes and referance books | |
| 15 | Behaviour of the land in the region | Pre-reading from lecture notes and referance books | |
| 16 | Term Exams | ||
| 17 | Term Exams |
Student Workload - ECTS
| Works | Number | Time (Hour) | Workload (Hour) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Related Works | |||
| Class Time (Exam weeks are excluded) | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Out of Class Study (Preliminary Work, Practice) | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Assesment Related Works | |||
| Homeworks, Projects, Others | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mid-term Exams (Written, Oral, etc.) | 1 | 12 | 12 |
| Final Exam | 1 | 18 | 18 |
| Total Workload (Hour) | 114 | ||
| Total Workload / 25 (h) | 4,56 | ||
| ECTS | 5 ECTS | ||