TBB530 Clay Minerals in Agriculture and Earth Sciences

5 ECTS - 3-0 Duration (T+A)- . Semester- 3 National Credit

Information

Code TBB530
Name Clay Minerals in Agriculture and Earth Sciences
Semester . Semester
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 Dr. Öğr. Üyesi KEMAL YALÇIN GÜLÜT


Course Goal

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

Course Precondition

No prerequisites

Resources

Clay and Clay Minerals.

Notes

Soil Mineralogy


Course Learning Outcomes

Order Course Learning Outcomes
LO01 Understands the interactions between Soil Science and Plant Nutrition and other disciplines
LO02 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.
LO03 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
LO04 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 Öğretim Yöntemleri:
Anlatım, Tartışma, Gösteri
2 Use of clay minerals as criteria in the soil classification 1. Pre-reading from lecture notes and referance books Öğretim Yöntemleri:
Anlatım, Tartışma, Gösteri
3 Clay minerals of soil use as criteria in the classification 2. Pre-reading from lecture notes and referance books Öğretim Yöntemleri:
Anlatım, Tartışma, Gösteri
4 The relationship between cation and anion intake of clay minerals in the soil Pre-reading from lecture notes and referance books Öğretim Yöntemleri:
Anlatım, Tartışma, Gösteri
5 The relationship between phosphor intake and clay minerals in the soil Pre-reading from lecture notes and referance books Öğretim Yöntemleri:
Anlatım, Tartışma, Gösteri
6 The relationship between potassium intake and clay minerals in the soil Pre-reading from lecture notes and referance books Öğretim Yöntemleri:
Anlatım, Tartışma, Gösteri
7 The relationship between ammonium intake and clay minerals in the soil Pre-reading from lecture notes and referance books Öğretim Yöntemleri:
Anlatım, Tartışma, Gösteri
8 Mid-Term Exam Ölçme Yöntemleri:
Sözlü Sınav
9 The mineralogical extent of the region 1. Pre-reading from lecture notes and referance books Öğretim Yöntemleri:
Anlatım, Tartışma, Gösteri
10 The mineralogical extent of the region 2. Pre-reading from lecture notes and referance books Öğretim Yöntemleri:
Anlatım, Tartışma, Gösteri
11 The importance of Smektit amount for the ground. Pre-reading from lecture notes and referance books Öğretim Yöntemleri:
Anlatım, Tartışma, Gösteri
12 The importance of Illit amount for the ground. Pre-reading from lecture notes and referance books Öğretim Yöntemleri:
Anlatım, Tartışma, Gösteri
13 The importance of Kaolin amount for the ground. Pre-reading from lecture notes and referance books Öğretim Yöntemleri:
Anlatım, Tartışma, Gösteri
14 Behaviour of the land in the region 1 Pre-reading from lecture notes and referance books Öğretim Yöntemleri:
Anlatım, Tartışma, Gösteri
15 Behaviour of the land in the region 2 Pre-reading from lecture notes and referance books Öğretim Yöntemleri:
Anlatım, Tartışma, Gösteri
16 Term Exams Ölçme Yöntemleri:
Yazılı Sınav
17 Term Exams Ölçme Yöntemleri:
Yazılı Sınav


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