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  Course Description
Course Name : Sertification and Quarantina Systems in Plant Protection

Course Code : BKP457

Course Type : Optional

Level of Course : First Cycle

Year of Study : 4

Course Semester : Fall (16 Weeks)

ECTS : 5

Name of Lecturer(s) : Prof.Dr. SAADETTİN BALOĞLU
Prof.Dr. SİBEL UYGUR

Learning Outcomes of the Course : Application of certification and quarantine systems in the legal management which is important in Plant Protection, importance and all teorical and practical legal legislation
Cognize description and importance of quarantine. Learns lagal side and application system. Gets information about application of quarantine in the world.

Mode of Delivery : Face-to-Face

Prerequisites and Co-Prerequisites : None

Recommended Optional Programme Components : No

Aim(s) of Course : To transfer information about methods to get seedling and saplings which are diseases free and trueness to name on plant producing with in the meaning of legal management techniques on Plant Protection law, about legal legislation, national and international quarantine

Course Contents : Explanation of importation of certification and quarantines in agriculture, regulation and current law and guide

Language of Instruction : Turkish

Work Place : Classroom


  Course Outline /Schedule (Weekly) Planned Learning Activities
Week Subject Student's Preliminary Work Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
1 Legal measures and general conception on management of plant disease and pests legal regulatins, lecture notes, oral presentations discussion and visual
2 Certification, importance of it, application reasons legal regulatins, lecture notes, oral presentations discussion and visual
3 Legal setout for certification and ceonception legal regulatins, lecture notes, oral presentations discussion and visual
4 Certification on fruit production (Introduction, importance, application) Giving homeworks legal regulatins, lecture notes, oral presentations discussion and visual
5 Certification on fruit production (examples from Turkey and abroad) legal regulatins, lecture notes, oral presentations discussion and visual
6 Seeding certification (İntroduction, aim, importance) legal regulatins, lecture notes, oral presentations discussion and visual
7 Seeding certification (Application, conception) legal regulatins, lecture notes, oral presentations discussion and visual
8 EXAM All documents Written examination
9 Quarantina (Explanations, importance, history) legal regulatins, lecture notes, oral presentations discussion and visual
10 Quarantina legislation in Turkey and World (EPPO) Laboratory work legal regulatins, lecture notes, oral presentations discussion and visual
11 Quarantina and pests legal regulatins, lecture notes, oral presentations discussion and visual
12 Quarantina and disease agents Laboratory work legal regulatins, lecture notes, oral presentations discussion and visual
13 Quarantina and weeds Laboratory work legal regulatins, lecture notes, oral presentations discussion and visual
14 Seed weeds and detection of them in plant production and propagating materials. Laboratory work legal regulatins, lecture notes, oral presentations discussion and visual
15 İdentification of seed and using of online programs Laboratory work Receiving homeworks legal regulatins, lecture notes, oral presentations discussion and visual
16/17 Examination All lecture documents Written examination


  Required Course Resources
Resource Type Resource Name
Recommended Course Material(s)  Power point presentation for all laws and legislation related with certification and quarantine, Agricultural management and quarantine with 6968 numbered law, seeds laws with 5553 numbered law and legislation related with grapes, strawberry, wheat, leguminous, animal feeding plants, potato and vegetable
Required Course Material(s)


  Assessment Methods and Assessment Criteria
Semester/Year Assessments Number Contribution Percentage
    Mid-term Exams (Written, Oral, etc.) 1 50
    Homeworks/Projects/Others 4 50
Total 100
Rate of Semester/Year Assessments to Success 40
 
Final Assessments 100
Rate of Final Assessments to Success 60
Total 100

  Contribution of the Course to Key Learning Outcomes
# Key Learning Outcome Contribution*
1 Gain the sufficient equipment to determine the challenges about the diseases, pests and weeds in plant health and identify those agents. 5
2 Decide to the best and economic strategy by using knowledge to solve the challenges in plant protection and keep safe the protection of natural and sustainable sources. 5
3 Gain the ability to communicate with farmers and organizations dealing with agriculture and be able to teach his professionals to them 5
4 Provides to apply practical control strategies safely and interpret the results; prescribe the pesticides in case of using chemical control. 3
5 Obtain the skill to choose and use modern technical tools in plant protection. 5
6 Skills on using a laboratory, identifying of the diseases, pests or weeds in laboratory conditions, analyzing, determination and interpret of the results and prepare reports. 5
7 Acqure the competence to be respectful to the professional ethics, to understand the plant protection challenges within the legal legislations and improve strategies to cope with them 5
8 Easily reaches to information on plant protection by using qualified Technologies and combine them with its knowledge to prepare written or oral presentations. 4
9 Gain the skills to catch and analyze the basic methods of the scientific researches 5
10 Gain the ability to work lonely or with a team, responsibility in professional ethics and safety in applications. 5
11 Learn the basic plant protection topics such as biology, ecology, systematic, control strategies of agents causing economical losses in cultivation 4
12 Students have the sufficient knowledge about agricultural engineering in general and also, plant protection area in private 0
13 Professional development in accordance with their interests and abilities, as well as the scientific, cultural, artistic and social fields, constantly improves itself by identifying training needs 0
* Contribution levels are between 0 (not) and 5 (maximum).

  Student Workload - ECTS
Works Number Time (Hour) Total Workload (Hour)
Course Related Works
    Class Time (Exam weeks are excluded) 14 4 56
    Out of Class Study (Preliminary Work, Practice) 14 1 14
Assesment Related Works
    Homeworks, Projects, Others 4 8 32
    Mid-term Exams (Written, Oral, etc.) 1 8 8
    Final Exam 1 10 10
Total Workload: 120
Total Workload / 25 (h): 4.8
ECTS Credit: 5