Ordu University Lifelong Learning Programme

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type of Course Unit	Year of Study	Semester	Number of ECTS Credits
FBT677-13	ACCUMULATION OF HEAVY METALS IN AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTS	Compulsory	1	1	6

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle

Objectives of the Course

This course will be aimed to teach characteristics of heavy metals, accumulation at the nature and at the livings, effects of essential and non-essential metals, reasons of the accumulation difference at the tissues and also to teach how to determine heavy metal presence at the nature and at the livings

Name of Lecturer(s)

Yard. Doç. Dr. Evren Tunca

Learning Outcomes

1	Ağır metallerin önemini anlar
2	Ağır metallerin sucul ekosistem üzerindeki etkisini bilir
3	Sucul ortamda basit düzeyde ağır metal birikim çalışması gerçekleştirebilir
4	Learn the importance of heavy metals
5	Learn the effects of heavy metals on the aquatic environments
6	Learn how to basically practice heavy metal accumulation studies at the aquatic environments.

Mode of Delivery

Formal Education

Prerequisites and co-requisities

None

Recommended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

In this lecture, It’ll be contented in which general information about heavy metals, why it is important for livings, why and how it is accumulating at the nature and at the aquatic livings and what are the effects of the accumulation. As well as this course contains methods and applications for the detections of heavy metals at the aquatic environments and at the aquatic livings.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Theoretical	Practice	Laboratory
1	General information of heavy metals, sources of heavy metals
2	Functions of essential and non-essential metals
3	Accumulations of heavy metals at the aquatic environments and its effect on aquatic environment and livings
4	Accumulation of heavy metals at the tissues and the factors which effects this accumulation
5	Functions of Metallothionein
6	Some important heavy metal studies and literature research
7	An overview
8	Mid-term exam
9	Different methods for the determination of heavy metals at water, sediments and aquatic livings
10			Collect of water, sediment and some aquatic livings as a sample and their conditions of storage
11			Samples dissection and separation of tissues
12			Samples drying, weighing and burning according to Bernhard method
13			Acidify of ashes, samples dilution and preparations of the samples for device measurement.
14			Process of the data
15	An overview
16	Final exam

Recommended or Required Reading

1 Lecture notes 2 Heavy Metals in Natural Waters: Applied Monitoring and Impact Assessment (James W. Moore, S. Ramamoorthy, Springer-Verlag, 1984) 3 Heavy Metals in the Environment (B. Sarkar, Marcel Dekker-New York 2002)

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods and Criteria

Term (or Year) Learning Activities	Quantity	Weight
SUM		0
End Of Term (or Year) Learning Activities	Quantity	Weight
SUM		0
Yarıyıl (Yıl) İçi Etkinlikleri		40
Yarıyıl (Yıl) Sonu Etkinlikleri		60
SUM		100

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities	Number	Time (hours)	Total Work Load (hours)
Midterm Examination	1	2	2
Final Examination	1	2	2
Attending Lectures	16	4	64
Laboratory	8	3	24
Experiment	1	15	15
Report Preparation	1	15	15
Writing Paper	1	20	20
Criticising Paper	1	15	15
Individual Study for Mid term Examination	5	2	10
Individual Study for Final Examination	5	3	15
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)			182

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

	PO 1	PO 2	PO 3	PO 4	PO 5	PO 6	PO 7	PO 8	PO 9	PO 10	PO 11	PO 12
LO1	5	4	5	5	1	1	4	3	5	3	3	3
LO2	5	4	5	5	1	1	4	3	5	3	3	3
LO3	5	4	5	5	1	1	4	3	5	3	3	3
LO4
LO5
LO6

* Contribution Level : 1 Very low 2 Low 3 Medium 4 High 5 Very High