GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION
BIOLOGICAL CONTROL AND MICROBIOLOGICAL AGENTS/BTM-416
Course Title: BIOLOGICAL CONTROL AND MICROBIOLOGICAL AGENTS
Credits 2 ECTS 3
Course Semester 8 Type of The Course Elective
COURSE INFORMATION
 -- (CATALOG CONTENT)
 -- (TEXTBOOK)
 -- (SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTBOOK)
 -- (PREREQUISITES AND CO-REQUISITES)
 -- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION
  Turkish
 -- COURSE OBJECTIVES
 -- COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES
Know the historical development of microbiology
Acquired knowledge is used to solve health and environment problems
Unuversal values and social justice have sufficient awareness
Know the historical development of microbiology and basic information, application of techniques and follow current information
Know and comment the diversity of microorganisms, relationship with the each other and relationship with the environment

 -- MODE OF DELIVERY
  The mode of delivery of this course is Face to face
 --WEEKLY SCHEDULE
1. Week  History of the biological war
2. Week  Classification of the biological war agents
3. Week   The way of the biological war agents into the human body
4. Week  The importance and properties of microbiological agents used in biological war
5. Week  The categorisation of biological agents, Category A biological war agents: B. antrachis,Y. pestis
6. Week  C. botulinum, F. tularensis,
7. Week  Hemorrhagic fever viruses
8. Week  Category B biological war agents:C. burnetii, Brucella spp., Burkholderia mallei/pseudomallei, Midterm exam
9. Week  Alpha viruses, East and West horse encephalomiyelitis Venezuella encephalomiyelitis
10. Week  C. perfringens epsilon toxin,Staphylococcus enterotoxin B, Salmonella
11. Week  Shigella, V. cholerae, C. parvum
12. Week  Category C biological war agents:Nipah virus, Hantavirus; Student presentations
13. Week  The protection of biological war agents, responsible ministry, regulations
14. Week   General evaluation, test of learning outcomes
15. Week  Final exam
16. Week  
 -- TEACHING and LEARNING METHODS
 -- ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
 
Quantity
Total Weighting (%)
 Midterm Exams
1
40
 Assignment
1
0
 Application
0
0
 Projects
0
0
 Practice
0
0
 Quiz
0
0
 Percent of In-term Studies  
40
 Percentage of Final Exam to Total Score  
60
 -- WORKLOAD
 Activity  Total Number of Weeks  Duration (weekly hour)  Total Period Work Load
 Weekly Theoretical Course Hours
14
2
28
 Weekly Tutorial Hours
0
 Reading Tasks
0
 Searching in Internet and Library
3
3
9
 Material Design and Implementation
2
3
6
 Report Preparing
0
 Preparing a Presentation
2
3
6
 Presentation
1
2
2
 Midterm Exam and Preperation for Midterm Exam
3
4
12
 Final Exam and Preperation for Final Exam
2
6
12
 Other (should be emphasized)
0
 TOTAL WORKLOAD: 
75
 TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25: 
3
 Course Credit (ECTS): 
3
 -- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM
NO
PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES
1
2
3
4
5
1Understands the structure and function relationships of living things.X
2Transfer of genetic information between species and populations will understand.X
3The structure and function of ecosystems understands the relationship between matter and energy.X
4Live diversity, understand the origin and evolutionary development and comments.X
5Conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity executes the necessary work.X
6Understand the historical development of the science of biology synthesizes.X
7Acquired knowledge and skills in biology education, technology, industry, agriculture, forestry, health and environmental uses to solve problems.X
8Biological idea of ​​individual, social, economic, technological and environmental issues apply.X
9Universal values ​​of social justice and the environment will have.X
10Biological studies and other related sciences and foreign languages ​​are aware of the importance.X
11Inside and outside the field of multidisciplinary studies of duties and responsibilities.X
12Reveals problems related to biology, is unable to solve the hypothesis, results of analyzes, reviews and develops models.X
13Follows of the latest information on the biology and comments.X
14Biology related topics written, oral and presentation techniques can be transferred using.X
15Provide effective communication in biology.X
16Sensitive to global issues with the knowledge and achievements of the country that represents the interests, researching and be productive individuals.X
17Biology laboratory techniques and devices used in application areas such uses.X
18Developing technologies based on biological data is transferred to a computer and analyzed using the appropriate program.X
19Work safety and health issues will have sufficient awareness.X
20Ethical values​​, which individuals would have a relationship of trust between stakeholdersX
 -- NAME OF LECTURER(S)
   (Prof Nihal Yucel , Prof.Sumru Cıtak , Assoc. Prof. Neslihan Gundogan)
 -- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)
   (websitem.gazi.edu.tr/site/nyucel , websitem.gazi.edu.tr/site/scitak , websitem.gazi.edu.tr/site/gundogan )
 -- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)
   (nyucel@gazi.edu.tr , scitak@gazi.edu.tr , gundogan@gazi.edu.tr)