GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION

ENVİRONMENTAL MONITORING AND BIOINDICATORS/5121325

Course Title:	ENVİRONMENTAL MONITORING AND BIOINDICATORS
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 basic knowledge about environmental monitoring and assesssment and give information about its applications.
To obtain background about the role of biomarkers on environmental monitoring and technical procedures.

-- MODE OF DELIVERY

The mode of delivery of this course is Face to face.

--WEEKLY SCHEDULE
1. Week	Introduction to environmental monitoring
2. Week	Basics of environmental sampling and analysis
3. Week	Design of water quality monitoring programs
4. Week	Insitu measurement of physicochemical water quality
5. Week	Water quality assessment by algal monitoring
6. Week	Biological monitoring and assessment using invertebrates
7. Week	Midterm-Vertebrate model organisms
8. Week	Monitoring and assessment of atmosphere
9. Week	Automated weather observations for environmental monitoring and aerosol sampling
10. Week	Monitoring, sampling and assessment of soil and sediment
11. Week	Biomarkers of environmental contamination
12. Week	Biomonitoring using biomarkers of genotoxicity
13. Week	Biomonitoring using histologic biomarkers
14. Week	Biomonitoring using physiologic and biochemical biomarkers
15. Week	New approaches for environmental monitoring : omics technology and data analysis of biomarkers
16. Week	-

-- TEACHING and LEARNING METHODS

-- ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

	Quantity	Total Weighting (%)
Midterm Exams	1	20
Assignment	2	20
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	15	3	45
Weekly Tutorial Hours			0
Reading Tasks	15	3	45
Searching in Internet and Library	15	3	45
Material Design and Implementation			0
Report Preparing			0
Preparing a Presentation			0
Presentation			0
Midterm Exam and Preperation for Midterm Exam	1	6	6
Final Exam and Preperation for Final Exam	1	6	6
Other (should be emphasized)	15	3	45
TOTAL WORKLOAD:			192
TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25:			7.68
Course Credit (ECTS):			7.5

-- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM

NO	PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES	1	2	3	4	5
1				X
2					X
3				X
4				X
5			X
6
7			X
8				X
9		X
10		X
11				X
12			X
13			X
14
15		X
16			X
17			X

-- NAME OF LECTURER(S)

(Prof. Dr. A. Çağlan GÜNAL)

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

(http://www.websitem.gazi.edu.tr/site/caglangunal)

-- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)

(caglangunal@gazi.edu.tr)

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