1	Course Title:	ECOLOGY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY OF INSECTS
2	Course Code:	BTK3608-Z
3	Type of Course:	Compulsory
4	Level of Course:	First Cycle
5	Year of Study:	3
6	Semester:	6
7	ECTS Credits Allocated:	2
8	Theoretical (hour/week):	1
9	Practice (hour/week) :	0
10	Laboratory (hour/week) :	0
11	Prerequisites:	None
12	Recommended optional programme components:	None
13	Language:	Turkish
14	Mode of Delivery:	Face to face
15	Course Coordinator:	Doç.Dr. NİMET SEMA GENÇER
16	Course Lecturers:
17	Contactinformation of the Course Coordinator:	e-mail:nsgencer@uludag.edu.tr tel: (90) 224 29 41 574 Adres :Uludağ Üniversitesi Ziraat Fakültesi Bitki Koruma Bölümü Görükle Kampüsü 16059 BURSA/ TÜRKİYE
18	Website:
19	Objective of the Course:	The aim of the course is to give knowledge about how agricultural pests is impressed by environmental conditions and provide their ability of evaluate about knowledge within the scope of plant protection
20	Contribution of the Course to Professional Development

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Learning Outcomes:

1 Adapting base ecological theories and concepts on agricultural pest life cycle.; 2 Comprehending effects of ecological factors on pests; 3 Comprehending relationships between ecological factors and pests and explicating it in terms of plant protection; 4 Establishing relationship between ecological factors and population of pests; 5 Evaluating effect of ecological factors in application plant protection methods; 6 To know choose the appropriate control method; 7 To improve the ability of commenting on data; 8 To know produce solutions to problems; 9 Creating an article, report and Project and evaluating these; 10 To undertake responsibility about his job;

22	Course Content:

Week	Theoretical	Practical
1	Theoretical :Definition of ecology, base theories and concepts
2	Subject and subdivision of ecology, autoecology
3	Overage of reproductive of pests
4	Being high of survival ability of pests
5	Effect of environmental factors on pests, abiotic factors, temperature,water
6	Climatic ecological factors, wind
7	Climatic ecological factors, photoperiod, atmosphere gases, gravity and atmospheric pressure
8	Repeating courses and midterm exam
9	Climatic ecological factors, physicochemistry and soil
10	Biotic factors, food factor
11	Biotic factors, interrelations of organisms, competition, commensalism, mutualism, parasitoidism
12	Biotic factors, population density
13	Biotic factors, reasons of epidemiology
14	Estimating of term papers

23	Textbooks, References and/or Other Materials:	Böcek Çevrebilimi(Böcek Ekolojisi)1. Birey ekolojisi, Prof. Dr. İ.Akif KANSU), The ecology of Insect overwintering (S.R.Leather et al.) Insect Ecology (Price, P.W.)
24	Assesment

TERM LEARNING ACTIVITIES	NUMBER	PERCENT
Midterm Exam	1	30
Quiz	0	0
Homeworks, Performances	1	10
Final Exam	1	60
Total	3	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
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ECTS / WORK LOAD TABLE

Activites	NUMBER	TIME [Hour]	Total WorkLoad [Hour]
Theoretical	14	1	14
Practicals/Labs	0	0	0
Self Study and Preparation	10	1	10
Homeworks, Performances	1	7	7
Projects	0	0	0
Field Studies	0	0	0
Midtermexams	1	12	12
Others	0	0	0
Final Exams	1	15	15
Total WorkLoad			58
Total workload/ 30 hr			1,93
ECTS Credit of the Course			2

26	CONTRIBUTION OF LEARNING OUTCOMES TO PROGRAMME QUALIFICATIONS
PQ1 PQ2 PQ3 PQ4 PQ5 PQ6 PQ7 PQ8 PQ9 PQ10 PQ11 PQ12 LO1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 LO2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 LO3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 LO4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 LO5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 LO6 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 LO7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 4 0 0 LO8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 LO9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 LO10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0

LO: Learning Objectives

PQ: Program Qualifications

Contribution Level:

1 Very Low

2 Low

3 Medium

4 High

5 Very High