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
FBİ644	PRINCIPLES OF SYSTEMATIC ZOOLOGY	Compulsory	1	1	6

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle

Objectives of the Course

To teach to the students how can (a)provide scientific names for organisms, (b)describe them, (c)preserve collections of them, (d)provide classifications for the organisms, keys for their identification, and data on their distributions, (e)investigate their evolutionary histories, and (f)consider their environmental adaptations.

Name of Lecturer(s)

Prof. Dr. Hasan SEVGİLİ

Learning Outcomes

1	Knows history of taxonomy, species and species concepts.
2	Knows taxonomic categories and characters.
3	Know simple nomenclature and its practice.

Mode of Delivery

Formal Education

Prerequisites and co-requisities

Recommended Optional Programme Components

Course Contents

For centuries, organisms have been studied by scientists: their structures, niches, processes and relationships. One major problem is simply the identification and classification of millions of species. To that end, biologists have organized living things into related groups. Though this is the case, a huge area of the biosphere remains mysterious to the scientific world. Biologists estimate that only a quarter of the total species in the planet are known, still some of these poorly studied. From all of these, systematics has emerged as an important branch of biology.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Theoretical	Practice	Laboratory
1	The contribution of systematics to biology	Theoretical	No
2	History of taxonomy	Theoretical	No
3	Microtaxonomy: Taxon, category, species and classification	Theoretical	No
4	The Species taxon and its category	Theoretical	No
5	The variation types	Theoretical	No
6	Taxonomic decisions in different organism groups	Theoretical	No
7	Theory and practice of biological classification	Theoretical	No
8	Taxonomic characters	Theoretical	No
9	Midterm Exam	Theoretical	No
10	Phylogeny and evolutionary classification	Theoretical	No
11	Taxonomic collections	Theoretical	NO
12	Schools of Systematic	Theoretical	No
13	Taxonomic publications	Theoretical	No
14	Fauna of Anatolia and systematics puzzle	Theoretical	No
15	Systematic approaches to fauna of Anatolia	Theoretical	No
16	Final Exam	Theoretical	No

Recommended or Required Reading

Mayr, E., and Ashlock, P. D. 1991. Principles of Systematic Zoology (2nd edition), Mc Graw-Hill, Inc., Lodos, N., 1979. Sistematik Zoolojinin Prensipleri, Ege Üniversitesi Yayınları. Çeşitli internet kaynakları

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

Work Placement(s)

Workload Calculation

Activities	Number	Time (hours)	Total Work Load (hours)
Midterm Examination	1	2	2
Final Examination	1	2	2
Attending Lectures	14	3	42
Self Study	1	45	45
Individual Study for Mid term Examination	1	45	45
Individual Study for Final Examination	1	45	45
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)			181

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

	PO 1	PO 2	PO 3	PO 4	PO 5	PO 6	PO 7	PO 8
LO1	2							4
LO2		3		3		2
LO3

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