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
SEC1162014773	ENVIRONMENT AND PROTECTION	Elective	1	2	3

Level of Course Unit

Short Cycle

Objectives of the Course

To provide them with sufficient knowledge and equipment on environmental basic concepts, national and international environmental problems and policies, and to increase environmental awareness.

Name of Lecturer(s)

Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Burcu DEMİREL YILMAZ

Learning Outcomes

1	Global environmental problems, causes and consequences of these problems and environmental problems
2	He/She will be able to identify the factors that cause environmental problems, will be able to analyze the relation between environmental protection and economic growth.
3	He/She will be able to evaluate environment-human relation in the context of information society and consumer culture, will be able to explain environmentalism and politicization in this current.
4	At the global scale, actors of environmental policies will be able to examine living processes and legal texts.
5	Turkey will have detailed knowledge of EU environmental policies.

Mode of Delivery

Formal Education

Prerequisites and co-requisities

None

Recommended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Environmental and human relations, environmental problems and historical development, the changing structure of environmental problems in the local and regional and global scale, the perception of the environment in international law, the instruments of international environmental policies, the actors and the variables that are effective in the decision making process, the internalities in the environmental economy and externalities principle, Sustainable development, ecological footprint, environment and development right, Global environmental policies and EU harmonization process Turkey's regional and global environmental activity.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Theoretical	Practice	Laboratory
1	Course Plan, Ecology and Environmental Sciences
2	Easter Island's Story, System Relations
3	Human and Nature Relations in the Context of "Being Sovereign of Nature"
4	Environment-System and Community Activities
5	Environmental Ethics
6	Environmental problems
7	Environmental Problems in Turkey
8	Economic Growth and Environmental Protection
9	Midterm exam
10	Sustainable Development
11	Competitive Balance and Externalities
12	Ecological footprint and components
13	Environmental Flow and Political Ecology
14	Environment and International Relations
15	Environmental Policy and Management, Environmental Management and Voluntary Environmental Organizations
16	Final exam

Recommended or Required Reading

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	1	1
Final Examination	1	1	1
Attending Lectures	14	3	42
Self Study	14	1	14
Individual Study for Homework Problems	2	2	4
Individual Study for Mid term Examination	1	7	7
Individual Study for Final Examination	1	14	14
Reading	1	7	7
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)			90

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	PO 13	PO 14	PO 15	PO 16	PO 17	PO 18	PO 19	PO 20	PO 21	PO 22	PO 23	PO 24	PO 25	PO 26	PO 27	PO 28
LO1												3					5	5			2	3	3	5				2
LO2												3					5	5			2	3	3	5				2
LO3												3					5	5			2	3	3	5				2
LO4												3					5	5			2	3	3	5				2
LO5												3					5	5			2	3	3	5				2

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