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  Course Description
Course Name : Fish Nutrition

Course Code : SUF425

Course Type : Compulsory

Level of Course : First Cycle

Year of Study : 4

Course Semester : Fall (16 Weeks)

ECTS : 5

Name of Lecturer(s) : Prof.Dr. ABDURRAHMAN POLAT

Learning Outcomes of the Course : Explaine the feeding of fish, feeding ratio and feeding frequency
Explaine the requirements of protein and essential aminoacids
Explaine the importance of fatty acids and essential fattyacids in fish
Explaine the importance of vitamins and minerals for fish
Explaine the Antinutritional substances and its importance in fish nutrition

Mode of Delivery : Face-to-Face

Prerequisites and Co-Prerequisites : None

Recommended Optional Programme Components : None

Aim(s) of Course : Teching on basic principles of fish nutrition, digestion of fish feed and netabolism of nutrients, antinutritional substances and their importance in fish nutrition, protein, amino acid, fat, fatty acid, carbohydrate, vitamin and mineral requirements of fish

Course Contents : The important criterias and principles in fish nutrition, antinutritional substances and their importance in fish nutrition, digestion and metabolism, protein and aminoacid requirements of fish, essential aminoasids, metabolism of aminoacids, bioenergetics of feeds, protein-energy balance in fish nutrition, lipids and fatty acid requirements of fish, essential fatty acids, ß oxidation of fatty acids, carbohydrate digestion and metabolism in fish, the importance and roles of vitamins in metabolism, vitamin requirements, the importance and requirements of minerals in fish nutrition, the deficiency signs of vitamins, aminoacids,fatty acids and mineral in fish.

Language of Instruction : Turkish

Work Place : Classroom of Faculty of Fisheries, Çukurova University


  Course Outline /Schedule (Weekly) Planned Learning Activities
Week Subject Student's Preliminary Work Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
1 Introduction Reading the related information on the course subject Lecture
2 Feed inteke, feeding behaviour in fish, homework Reading the corse notes and related information. Lecture, visual demonstration
3 Feeding ratio, frequency and feeding typs in fish Reading the corse notes and related information, study for homework Lecture, visual demonstration
4 Digestion of food and metabolism of nutrients, homework Reading the corse notes and related information. Lecture, visual demonstration
5 Metabolism, energetics of nutrients Reading the corse notes and related information, study for homework Lecture, visual demonstration
6 Protein Requirements and essential aminoacids in fish, ödev Reading the corse notes and related information, study for homework Lecture, visual demonstration
7 Deamination of amino acids Reading the corse notes and related information. Lecture, visual demonstration
8 Midterm exam Study for midterm exam Writing exam
9 The importance of lipids in fish nutrition, homework Reading the corse notes and related information, study for homework Lecture, visual demonstration
10 Fats as energy source, essential fatty acids in fish Reading the corse notes and related information. Lecture, visual demonstration
11 The importance of carbohydrate in fish, glycose metabolism Reading the corse notes and related information. Lecture, visual demonstration
12 Use of carbohydrate in fish Reading the corse notes and related information. Lecture, visual demonstration
13 The importance and requirements of vitaminsin fish, symptoms of lack of vitamin Reading the corse notes and related information. Lecture, visual demonstration
14 Fat soluble vitamin, water soluble vitamin Reading the corse notes and related information, study for homework Lecture, visual demonstration
15 Evaluation of homework Reading the corse notes and related information. Lecture, visual demonstration, brain storm
16/17 Final exam Study for final exam Writing exam


  Required Course Resources
Resource Type Resource Name
Recommended Course Material(s)  POLAT,A.2011."Feed and Feed Manufacturing technology" (Course Book)
 HALVER, J.E., 2002." Fish Nutrition"
 POLAT,A.,2013. "Fish Nutrition" (Course Book)
Required Course Material(s)


  Assessment Methods and Assessment Criteria
Semester/Year Assessments Number Contribution Percentage
    Mid-term Exams (Written, Oral, etc.) 1 40
    Homeworks/Projects/Others 4 60
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 Using the informatics and communicating technology 1
2 Gaining competence to determine the current status of aquatic resources and its sustainable use, water pollution and control, and biotechnology areas. 2
3 Ability to act in accordance with the regulation, social, scientific, cultural, and ethical values on fisheries field 5
4 Having knowledge on “natural and applied sciences” and “basic engineering”; combination of their theoretical and practical knowledge on fisheries engineering applications. 4
5 assessment of data scientifically on fisheries engineering, determining and solving the problems 5
6 Uses theoretical and practical knowledge in the field of fisheries to design; investigates and interprets events and phenomena usig scientific methods and techniques. 5
7 Collecting data in fisheries science, making the basic experimental studies, evaluating the results, identifying the problems and developing methods of solution 3
8 Having plan any study related to fisheries science as an individually, managing and consulting 2
9 Learning the knowledge by the determining learning needs; developing positive attitude towards lifelong learning 2
10 Communicating oral and written in expertise field, monitoring the seminars and meeting in expertise field, following the foreign language publication 4
11 Improving life-long learning attitude and using the information to the public interest. 5
12 Having skills to apply modern techniques and computational tools necessary for engineering applications. 4
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 1
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 3
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).

  Student Workload - ECTS
Works Number Time (Hour) Total 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 4 5 20
    Mid-term Exams (Written, Oral, etc.) 1 5 5
    Final Exam 1 7 7
Total Workload: 116
Total Workload / 25 (h): 4.64
ECTS Credit: 5