COURSE SYLLABUS

SOCIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY OF MEADOW RANGE

1	Course Title:	SOCIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY OF MEADOW RANGE
2	Course Code:	TAR3310PDS
3	Type of Course:	Optional
4	Level of Course:	First Cycle
5	Year of Study:	3
6	Semester:	6
7	ECTS Credits Allocated:	3
8	Theoretical (hour/week):	2
9	Practice (hour/week) :	2
10	Laboratory (hour/week) :	0
11	Prerequisites:	-
12	Recommended optional programme components:	None
13	Language:	Turkish
14	Mode of Delivery:	Face to face
15	Course Coordinator:	Prof. Dr. EMİNE BUDAKLI ÇARPICI
16	Course Lecturers:
17	Contactinformation of the Course Coordinator:	e-posta: ebudakli@uludag.edu.tr Telefon: 0 224 29 415 14 Adres: Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi Ziraat Fakültesi Tarla Bitkileri Bölümü
18	Website:
19	Objective of the Course:	Meadow and Range vegatations include very different plant species and kinds and they are world’s most important plant communities. They offer numerous uses such as in animal husbandry, soil and water conservations and in crop plant production. Making multiple advantages and being valuable resources. To survey and examine the sociological and ecological relations of such vegatations with yielding multiple uses will present valuable knowledges for sustainable and economic uses of these areas. To teach and train the students in this area make them strong to handle the problems related with grasslands.
20	Contribution of the Course to Professional Development	To have knowledge about grassland ecosystems and ecological factors affecting these systems and sociological relationships between plants.

Learning Outcomes:

1	Student learns that there are vast natural range lands in Turkey.;
2	Percives that different range-meadow ecosystems were formed because of the different ecological regions in Turkey.;
3	Learns that the meadow and range vegatations formed from numerous plant species and the ecological and socilogical relationships among them were very different;
4	They understand that there were stable structure in meadow and range ecosystems under stable environmental conditions, but in case of deteriorations in enironmental conditions, the stability may be destroyed and dynamic characters appeared, beceuse of these improvements new reactional happinings occured in sociological and ecological relations, and then new balances were created.;
5	Student may use the knowledges ontained from this course in a right way in the improvement and management of meadows and ranges and shares his knowledges with the animal producers;
6	Student becomes awaire of the meadow and range acosystems are used mainly for forage production, but besides, they play big role in soil and water conservation, and they have benifits in bee, sweet water fishery, clean air, regreational area, etc.;

22	Course Content:

Week	Theoretical	Practical
1	General informations about meadow and range ecology and sociology Certain ecological terms about meadow and range vegetations Factors limiting plant growth and developments Groupping and introducing the environmental factors	Examples of legume forage crops found in pastures
2	Light factor and its specifications Temperature factor	Examples of legume forage crops found in pastures
3	Temperature factor Water factor	Examples of legume forage crops found in pastures
4	Climatic factor Edaphic factors	Examples of legume forage crops found in pastures
5	Geogratic and topographic factors Pyric factors Practical utility of fire Biotic factors	Examples of cereal forage crops found in pastures
6	Geogratic and topographic factors Pyric factors Practical utility of fire Biotic factors	Examples of cereal forage crops found in pastures
7	Biotic factors Allelopthy, myeotrophy, parazitizm, symbiotic relations	Examples of cereal forage crops found in pastures
8	Biotic factors (polination, biological scattering of plants) Meadow and range ecosystems (structure, functionel components) Plant associations and vegetataion	Examples of cereal forage crops found in pastures
9	Biotic factors (polination, biological scattering of plants) Meadow and range ecosystems (structure, functionel components) Plant associations and vegetataion	Examples from other families found in pastures
10	Groupping of vegetations Succession of vegetations Climax vegetations	Examples from other families found in pastures
11	Consumers of ecosystem Dynamics of ecosystem and energy status Feding network and stability of ecosystem Changes in the ecosystem parameters	Examples from other families found in pastures
12	Deterioration of ecosystem stability Production of ecosystems Differences among plants in respect of production Enegry conversion in ecosystems and enegry budget	Examples from other families found in pastures
13	Biochemical conversions in ecosystems CO2 and nitrogen conversion Elemantary cycle of minerals	Examples of spiny species found in pastures
14	Behavior of meadow and range vegetations and reactions environment Rooting of meadow and range covers Humus accumulation Agingof meadow and range vegetations and regenerating spontaneously. Small livings of meadow and range vegetations	Examples of spiny species found in pastures

23	Textbooks, References and/or Other Materials:	1. Doç. Dr. Cengiz ANDİÇ, 1984. Tarımsal Ekoloji-1 (Autoekolojik Esaslar), Tarımsal Ekoloji-2 (Synekolojik Esaslar). Atatürk Üniversitesi Ziraat Fakültesi, Erzurum. 2. Prof. Dr. M. Sadık GENÇKAN, 1985. Çayır ve Mera Amenajmanı ve Islahı. Ege Üniversitesi Basımevi. Bornova-İZMİR.
24	Assesment

TERM LEARNING ACTIVITIES	NUMBER	PERCENT
Midterm Exam	1	10
Quiz	2	20
Homeworks, Performances	1	10
Final Exam	1	60
Total	5	100
Contribution of Term (Year) Learning Activities to Success Grade		40
Contribution of Final Exam to Success Grade		60
Total		100
Measurement and Evaluation Techniques Used in the Course	Bursa Uludağ University is evaluated according to the principles of the undergraduate Education Regulation.
Information	Results are determined by the letter grade determined by the student automation system.

ECTS / WORK LOAD TABLE

Activites	NUMBER	TIME [Hour]	Total WorkLoad [Hour]
Theoretical	14	2	28
Practicals/Labs	14	2	28
Self Study and Preparation	2	4	8
Homeworks, Performances	1	5	5
Projects	0	0	0
Field Studies	0	0	0
Midtermexams	1	5	5
Others	1	10	10
Final Exams	1	6	6
Total WorkLoad			95
Total workload/ 30 hr			3
ECTS Credit of the Course			3

CONTRIBUTION OF LEARNING OUTCOMES TO PROGRAMME QUALIFICATIONS

	PQ1	PQ2	PQ4	PQ5	PQ6	PQ8
LO1	5	0	0	0	0	0
LO2	5	0	0	0	0	0
LO3	5	0	0	0	0	0
LO4	5	0	0	0	0	0
LO5	5	4	4	4	3	3
LO6	4	0	0	0	0	0

LO: Learning Objectives

PQ: Program Qualifications

Contribution Level:

1 Very Low

2 Low

3 Medium

4 High

5 Very High