General Information

Field Crops doctor's degree is a program for students who completed undergraduate study in the Department of Field Crops or another department of agriculture faculty and also graduated students from departments of other faculties who agreed to participate in a one-year preparatory program that provides education about topics related to the study areas of field crops. Duration of education and training program is a two year course and thesis write up period of two year, four years.

Length of Programme & Number of Credits

4 Year - 240 ECTS

Feature & Definition

Field Crops doctor's degree program aims to equip agriculture engineers with a deeper and detailed knowledge on one of the study areas of field crops enabling them to do reseach at an advanced level of expertise and to interpret the outcomes of the research results. Program students develop and update their knowledge of a specific subject about cereals, grain legumes, industrial crops or meadow-pasture and forage crops and by doing the field or laboratory research on that issue, they offer the findings of the research as doctor's thesis.

Mode of Study

Full Time

Head of Department

Prof. Dr. CELALEDDİN BARUTÇULAR

ECTS / Course Catalog Coordinator

Dr. Öğr. Üyesi AYBEGÜN TON

Erasmus Coordinator

Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Recep İrfan NAZLI

Internship Coordinator

Orientation Staff

Goals

To raise specialized on field crops and equipped with contemporary knowledge, to conduct research towards the solution of local, national and international problems and to share the information with scientific world. Our department provides master program in plant breeding, cereals, pulse crops, cash crops, forage crops and rangelands subjects. Main targets of department are to increase the theoretical knowledge gained during undergraduate program, increase the capability of synthesis and analysis skill in these subjects, follow latest technology on national and international bases about his subject, gain the ability to solve the problem about his subject and also improve the ability to analyze the data he collected and present the results, information and skills based on scientific bases in national and international arena.

Objectives

1- With the expanding and deepening of the knowledge in the field of industrial crops ability to access information, to evaluate information, to interpret and apply by doing scientific research, 2- Ability to use scientific data in the field of Field Crops by using existing data, to use with scientific, social and ethical responsibility, 3-Ability to teach and control the scientific, social and ethical values ??in the stages of collecting, interpreting and announcing the data related to field crops, 4- Ability to transfer the current developments in the field crops field and their studies to the groups in and out of the field systematically in written, oral and visual form, 5- To provide students with the knowledge and skills to make them successful in their academic careers 6-Ability to establish advanced level of written and verbal communication in the field of specialization with the employees in the field, with the wider scientific communities outside the field and in the general public as well as in their own language and in a foreign language.

Specific Admission Requirements

The students can apply to this program providing ALES score, grade point averages and interview in accordance with the regulations of “Çukurova University Graduate Education and Examination Committee” and can pursue their education in their or in related fields.

Qualification Awarded

The students who have successfully accomplished this program gain the doctor’s degree of Field Crops.

Level of Qualification

Doctorate

Qualification Requirements of Graduation

Access to Further Studies

After completing his doctorate degree, the person who receives the title of Doctor may take the title of Associate Professor by fulfilling the criteria determined by ULAKBİM.

Internship

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Applied Course

Bu programda uygulamalı ders bulunmamaktadır.

Work Placement

Bu programda işyeri eğitimi bulunmamaktadır.

Double Major, Additional Major & Exchange Possibilities

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Employment Opportunities

Graduates of the program have the opportunity to work in ; public institutions (ministries about agriculture, food, environment and forestry, municipalities, Special Provincial Administrations, State Water Works, etc.), universities (as academics), agricultural advisory bodies, agro-based cooperatives, agro-based private sector firms engaged in R & D and production (seed, drug, fertilizer,etc.), public and private banks, irrigation drainage construction companies, engineering and consulting firms, land consolidation contracting firms, technology development zones and agro-based international companies.