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| Course Description |
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| Course Name |
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Ornamental Fish Culture |
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| Course Code |
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SUF301 |
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| Course Type |
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Compulsory |
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| Level of Course |
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First Cycle |
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| Year of Study |
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3 |
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| Course Semester |
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Fall (16 Weeks) |
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| ECTS |
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4 |
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| Name of Lecturer(s) |
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Assoc.Prof.Dr. MAHMUT YANAR
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| Learning Outcomes of the Course |
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Students distinguish to the many species of aquarium fish, the know their biology and determine sex distinctions
Students decide to healthy about place choosing and planning of a ornamental fish farm
Students overcome to aquarium construction and its disagn
Students analyze water quality parameters and the relationships between them
Students perform to the production, nursury and feding of many aquarium fish species
Students overcome to the transporting and anesthesia of fish
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| Mode of Delivery |
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Face-to-Face |
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| Prerequisites and Co-Prerequisites |
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None |
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| Recommended Optional Programme Components |
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None |
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| Aim(s) of Course |
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The main aim of this lecture is to teach students about the aquarium systems and design; water quality and their control; description, breeding, feeding and transportaion of ormamental fish.
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| Course Contents |
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Aquarium systems and their design; environmental factors and their control; description, breeding, feeding and transportation of ornamental fish including main families of Poecillidae,Cyprinidae, Anabantidae and Cichlidae. |
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| Language of Instruction |
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Turkish |
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| Work Place |
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Classrooms of fisheries faculty and laboratories of aquaculture depertmant |
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Course Outline /Schedule (Weekly) Planned Learning Activities |
| Week | Subject | Student's Preliminary Work | Learning Activities and Teaching Methods |
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1 |
Giving an summary information about whole lesson |
student comes with lecture notes |
lecture |
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2 |
General characteristics of ornamental fish, the market demands, choosing place in establishment of ornamental fish farm
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reading the lecture notes and preparation for the laboratory |
lecture, discussion, demostration |
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3 |
Construction of glass aquarium, technical specifications of concrete pools, aeration and filtration |
reading the lecture notes and preparation for the laboratory |
lecture, demostration, laboratory |
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4 |
Nutrition of ornamental fish, feeds, life food and their simple production techniques |
reading the lecture notes and preparation for the laboratory |
lecture, discussion
demostration, laboratory |
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5 |
Environmental factors in aquarium systems and their management |
reading the lecture notes and preparation for the laboratory |
lecture, discussion, demostration |
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6 |
Environmental factors in aquarium systems and their management, resircule systems |
reading the lecture notes and preparation for the laboratory |
lecture, discussion
demostration, laboratory |
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7 |
Culture of Poecillidae family |
reading the lecture notes and preparation for the laboratory |
lecture, discussion
demostration, laboratory |
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8 |
Midterm exam, discussion of answers of quaestion |
study for the exam |
written exam, discussion |
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9 |
Culture of Poecillidae family |
reading the lecture notes and preparation for the laboratory |
lecture, discussion
demostration, laboratory |
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10 |
Culture of Cyprinidae family |
reading the lecture notes, browing article on web and preparation for the home work |
lecture, discussion
laboratory |
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11 |
Culture of Cyprinidae family |
reading the lecture notes, browing article on web and preparation for the home work |
lecture, discussion
demostration, laboratory |
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12 |
Culture of Anabantidae and Callichthyidae family |
reading the lecture notes, browing article on web and preparation for the home work |
lecture, discussion
demostration, laboratory |
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13 |
Culture of Cichlidae family |
reading litarature recommended and monitoring of the trial aquariums |
lecture, discussion
demostration, laboratory |
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14 |
Fish transporting, approach to causes of fish losses and death, use of medicament and their calculation methods in aquaculture |
reading litarature recommended and monitoring of the trial aquariums |
lecture, discussion
laboratory |
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15 |
evaluation of homework |
preparation for the homework |
discussion |
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16/17 |
final exam |
study for the eaxm |
written exam |
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Required Course Resources |
| Resource Type | Resource Name |
| Recommended Course Material(s) |
 Axelrod, H.,R.,1989. Dr.Exelrod´s ATLAS.
Hawkins,A.D., 1881., Aquarium systems, Acedemic press.
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| Required Course Material(s) | |
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Assessment Methods and Assessment Criteria |
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Semester/Year Assessments |
Number |
Contribution Percentage |
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Mid-term Exams (Written, Oral, etc.) |
1 |
70 |
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Homeworks/Projects/Others |
1 |
30 |
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Total |
100 |
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Rate of Semester/Year Assessments to Success |
40 |
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Final Assessments
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100 |
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Rate of Final Assessments to Success
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60 |
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Total |
100 |
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| Contribution of the Course to Key Learning Outcomes |
| # | Key Learning Outcome | Contribution* |
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1 |
Using the informatics and communicating technology |
0 |
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2 |
Gaining competence to determine the current status of aquatic resources and its sustainable use, water pollution and control, and biotechnology areas. |
1 |
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3 |
Ability to act in accordance with the regulation, social, scientific, cultural, and ethical values on fisheries field |
3 |
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4 |
Having knowledge on “natural and applied sciences” and “basic engineering”; combination of their theoretical and practical knowledge on fisheries engineering applications. |
4 |
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5 |
assessment of data scientifically on fisheries engineering, determining and solving the problems |
2 |
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6 |
Uses theoretical and practical knowledge in the field of fisheries to design; investigates and interprets events and phenomena usig scientific methods and techniques. |
3 |
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7 |
Collecting data in fisheries science, making the basic experimental studies, evaluating the results, identifying the problems and developing methods of solution |
2 |
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8 |
Having plan any study related to fisheries science as an individually, managing and consulting |
2 |
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9 |
Learning the knowledge by the determining learning needs; developing positive attitude towards lifelong learning |
1 |
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10 |
Communicating oral and written in expertise field, monitoring the seminars and meeting in expertise field, following the foreign language publication |
2 |
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11 |
Improving life-long learning attitude and using the information to the public interest. |
1 |
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12 |
Having skills to apply modern techniques and computational tools necessary for engineering applications. |
1 |
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13 |
Having ability to promote the study about aquaculture techniques by saving the natural environment, fishery diseases, fishing and processing technology, structure of fishery sector, problems and solution of their expertise field |
2 |
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14 |
Having ability to promote the study about aquaculture techniques by saving the natural environment, fishery diseases, fishing and processing technology, structure of fishery sector, problems and solution of their expertise field |
5 |
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15 |
Improves constantly itself , as well as professional development scientific, social, cultural and artistic fields according to his/her interests and abilities identifying needs of learning. |
0 |
| * Contribution levels are between 0 (not) and 5 (maximum). |
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| Student Workload - ECTS |
| Works | Number | Time (Hour) | Total Workload (Hour) |
| Course Related Works |
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Class Time (Exam weeks are excluded) |
14 |
3 |
42 |
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Out of Class Study (Preliminary Work, Practice) |
14 |
2 |
28 |
| Assesment Related Works |
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Homeworks, Projects, Others |
1 |
8 |
8 |
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Mid-term Exams (Written, Oral, etc.) |
1 |
10 |
10 |
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Final Exam |
1 |
12 |
12 |
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Total Workload: | 100 |
| Total Workload / 25 (h): | 4 |
| ECTS Credit: | 4 |
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