Course Information


Course Information
Course Title Code Semester L+U Hour Credits ECTS
PESTICIDES AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLLLUTION 800300715060 3 + 0 3.0 8.0

Prerequisites None

Language of Instruction Turkish
Course Level Graduate Degree
Course Type Compulsory
Mode of delivery Oral presentation with powerpoint slides. Computer-based programmes.
Course Coordinator
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Goals To teach general knowledge about pesticides. Pesticide cycle in environment and its residue. Effect of pesticides to environment and human health.
Course Content Pesticide residues, movement of pesticide residues in the environment, legislations and regulations on pesticide residue problems, pesticide degradation mechanisms in the environment (biotransformation, photochemical, physical and chemical mechanisms), effects of pesticides on the environment, humans, and animals.
Learning Outcomes 1) Classification of pesticides and general knowledge about their chemical structure
2) Effect of pesticides to non-target organism
3) Pesticides cycle in environment and residiue problems
4) Legal regulation of pesticides
5) The classification of pestticides and formulation types
6) Insecticides resistance to devolping insects and resistance types
7) Biodiversity , the effects on biodiversity of pesticides
8) Byoindicator organisms
9) Biopesticides
10) Risk assesment of the pesticides in envirnment
11) Economic threshold level and environmental effects

Weekly Topics (Content)
Week Topics Teaching and Learning Methods and Techniques Study Materials
1. Week Ecology ,ecological issues , ,Ecology and related to other branches of science Lecture; Question Answer
Colloquium
Problem Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time) Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)
2. Week History of pesticides, ecology and ecological rules Lecture; Question Answer
Colloquium
Problem Based Learning 		Report (Including Preparation and presentation Time)
3. Week Classification of pesticides, formulation types Lecture; Question Answer
Colloquium
Problem Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
4. Week Economic importance of pesticides and their usage rate Lecture; Question Answer
Colloquium
Problem Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
5. Week Ecotoxicology, pesticides residiue Lecture; Question Answer
Colloquium
Problem Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
6. Week Risk analysis of pesticides residiue Lecture; Question Answer
Colloquium
Problem Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
7. Week Midterm exam Question Answer
Colloquium
Problem Based Learning 		Homework
8. Week Pesticide cycle in environment Lecture; Question Answer
Colloquium
Problem Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
9. Week Effect of pesticides to non-target organism Lecture
Colloquium
Problem Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
10. Week Toxicity of pesticides Lecture; Question Answer
Colloquium
Problem Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
11. Week Insecticides resistance in insect Lecture; Question Answer
Colloquium
 Presentation (Including Preparation Time) Project (Including Preparation and presentation Time)
12. Week Biodiversity Lecture; Question Answer
Colloquium
 Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
13. Week Bioindicator organism Lecture; Question Answer
Colloquium
Problem Based Learning 		Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
14. Week Biopesticides Lecture; Question Answer
Colloquium
 Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
15. Week Student presentation Lecture; Question Answer
Symposium; Colloquium
Problem Based Learning 		Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
16. Week Final exam Question Answer
Colloquium
Problem Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)

Sources Used in This Course
Recommended Sources
Farklı kaynaklardan yararlanılarak hazırlanan Ders notları ve power point sunum
Öncüer C., E. Durmuşoğlu 2008. Tarımsal zararlılarla savaş yöntemleri ve ilaçları
Ünal G., MO Gürkan 2001. İnsektisitler.
Yu S. 2008. The toxicology and biochemistry of insecticides

ECTS credits and course workload
Event Quantity Duration (Hour) Total Workload (Hour)
Course Duration (Total weeks*Hours per week) 16 3
Work Hour outside Classroom (Preparation, strengthening) 16 3
Homework 3 5
Presentation (Including Preparation Time) 3 5
Report (Including Preparation and presentation Time) 3 5
Seminar 2 5
Midterm Exam 1 2
Time to prepare for Midterm Exam 1 32
Final Exam 1 2
Time to prepare for Final Exam 1 32
3 2
Total Workload
Total Workload / 30 (s)
ECTS Credit of the Course
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