GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION

ENTOMOLOGICAL MUSEUM METHODS 2/5761301

Course Title:	ENTOMOLOGICAL MUSEUM METHODS 2
Credits	3	ECTS	7.5
Course Semester	1	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

To teach Collecting, preservation and storage of insects
To practise and learn of Collecting, preservation and storage of insects

-- MODE OF DELIVERY

The mode of delivery of this course is Face to face

--WEEKLY SCHEDULE
1. Week	Laboratory preservation and mounting of İnsects
2. Week	Laboratory preservation and mounting of İnsects
3. Week	Relaxing of İnsects
4. Week	İnsect Sorting alcohol stored material
5. Week	İnsect pinning
6. Week	Carding of İnsects in the cardboard
7. Week	Setting of İnsects
8. Week	Preparing insect eggs, pupae and soft bodied larvae. Midterm.
9. Week	Labelling of İnsects
10. Week	The preparation of İnsect genitalia
11. Week	Microscopic preparations
12. Week	Storage of dried specimens
13. Week	Arranging the specimens, maintaining a dry collection
14. Week	Synopsis of treatments for each insect order
15. Week	Final.
16. Week

-- TEACHING and LEARNING METHODS

-- ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

	Quantity	Total Weighting (%)
Midterm Exams	1	30
Assignment	0	0
Application	1	20
Projects	0	0
Practice	0	0
Quiz	0	0

Percent of In-term Studies		50
Percentage of Final Exam to Total Score		50

-- WORKLOAD

Activity	Total Number of Weeks	Duration (weekly hour)	Total Period Work Load
Weekly Theoretical Course Hours	7	3	21
Weekly Tutorial Hours			0
Reading Tasks	14	2	28
Searching in Internet and Library	14	2	28
Material Design and Implementation	14	2	28
Report Preparing	14	2	28
Preparing a Presentation	14	2	28
Presentation	14	1	14
Midterm Exam and Preperation for Midterm Exam	7	1	7
Final Exam and Preperation for Final Exam	14	1	14
Other (should be emphasized)			0
TOTAL WORKLOAD:			196
TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25:			7.84
Course Credit (ECTS):			7.5

-- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM

-- NAME OF LECTURER(S)

(Prof. Dr. Suat KIYAK)

-- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)

(www.gazi.edu.tr/~skiyak/)

-- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)

(skiyak@gazi.edu.tr)

Gazi University