Description of Individual Course Units
Course Unit CodeCourse Unit TitleType of Course UnitYear of StudySemesterNumber of ECTS Credits
ZTB4012016955COOL SEASON CEREALSCompulsory473
Level of Course Unit
First Cycle
Objectives of the Course
The aim of the course is • to teach student about the importance of cool season cereals in World and Turkey • to equip students with the knowledge and skills of cool season cereals • to develop the ability of the students to produce cool season cereals • to give students the opportunity to learn Wheat, Barley, Rye, Oats, Triticale • to enable students develop the information about cool season cereals taxonomy • to allow students become proficient in grains in a cool season
Name of Lecturer(s)
Prof.Dr.Nuri YILMAZ
Learning Outcomes
1To have the knowledge and skills of importance of cereals in a cool climate, adaptation, morphology and physiology, storage, and standardization of knowledge is about.
2Effectively be able to preparation soil to harvest cereals
3Able to explain cool season cereals
Mode of Delivery
Formal Education
Prerequisites and co-requisities
Recommended Optional Programme Components
Course Contents
• the general importance of grains in a cool climate, adaptation, morphology • physiology, storage, and standardization • Turkey varieties, Standards, Adaptations, Cultures: cultivation of the soil, fertilizing, sowing, maintenance, harvesting and threshing, disease and pests
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
WeekTheoreticalPracticeLaboratory
1Introduction and economic importance of grains
2Adaptation of grains
3Morphology and physiology of the cereals
4Storage of Cereal grains
5Standardization of the cool climate cereals
6The economic importance of wheat, origin, cytogenetic, and taxonomy, Turkey types, standards, adaptations,
7Wheat culture: the cultivation of the soil, fertilizing, sowing, sowing maintenance, harvesting and threshing, disease and pests
8Midterm exam
9The economic importance of barley, origin, and the taxonomy of cytogenetic, Turkey types, standards, adaptations,
10Barley culture: the cultivation of the soil, fertilizing, sowing, maintenance, harvesting and threshing, disease and pests
11The economic importance of rye, the origin and taxonomy of cytogenetic, Turkey types, standards, adaptations,
12Rye culture: the cultivation of the soil, fertilizing, sowing, maintenance, harvesting and threshing, disease and pests
13The economic importance of oats, the origin and taxonomy of cytogenetic, Turkey types, standards, adaptations,
14Oat's culture: the cultivation of the soil, fertilizing, sowing, sowing, maintenance, harvesting and threshing, disease and pests
15Economic importance of triticale, Origin, cytogenetic and taxonomies, Adaptations, Culture: cultivation of the soil, fertilizing, sowing, maintenance, harvesting and threshing, disease and pests.
16Final exam
Recommended or Required Reading
Yılmaz, N., 2011. Serin İklim Tahılları Ders notları Kün, E., 1988. Serin İklim Tahılları. A.Ü. Ziraat Fakültesi Yayınları:1032, Ders Kitabı: 299. Ankara
Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Term (or Year) Learning ActivitiesQuantityWeight
SUM0
End Of Term (or Year) Learning ActivitiesQuantityWeight
SUM0
Yarıyıl (Yıl) İçi Etkinlikleri40
Yarıyıl (Yıl) Sonu Etkinlikleri60
SUM100
Language of Instruction
Turkish
Work Placement(s)
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesNumberTime (hours)Total Work Load (hours)
Midterm Examination111
Final Examination122
Attending Lectures14342
Individual Study for Mid term Examination7321
Individual Study for Final Examination6530
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)96
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* Contribution Level : 1 Very low 2 Low 3 Medium 4 High 5 Very High
 
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