COURSE SYLLABUS

ANIMAL BREEDING

1	Course Title:	ANIMAL BREEDING
2	Course Code:	SBHS231
3	Type of Course:	Optional
4	Level of Course:	Short Cycle
5	Year of Study:	2
6	Semester:	3
7	ECTS Credits Allocated:	3
8	Theoretical (hour/week):	2
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:	Öğr.Gör. NAZİF UZUN
16	Course Lecturers:
17	Contactinformation of the Course Coordinator:	sduru@uludag.edu.tr 0224 676 87 80 Uludağ Üniversitesi Karacabey Meslek Yüksekokulu, Karacabey/BURSA
18	Website:
19	Objective of the Course:	To gain information on the genetic basis of animal breeding and indoctrinate the importance of elevate population genetic level and methods to students
20	Contribution of the Course to Professional Development

Learning Outcomes:

1	Informed of evolution, future and importance of animal breeding from past to present.;
2	Learns the phenotypic variation source and calculation methods.;
3	Learns selection methods, impacts and their areas of usage.;
4	Can predict genetic parameters and understand their importance in animal breeding;
5	Learn crossbreeding methods.;
6	Learn genetic basis of crossbreeding.;
7	Learn breeding systems and their areas of usage.;
8	To be informed of breeding methods that can use in Turkey.;

22	Course Content:

Week	Theoretical	Practical
1	The scope and importance of animal breeding
2	Character, phenotype, genotype and environment concepts, genotype-environment relations with environmental and genetic sources of phenotypic variation
3	The definition of heritability, it’s importance and characteristics of animal breeding.
4	Definition of selection, selection’s effects, selection and culling, selection in terms of quantitative and qualitative characters
5	Opportunities of increasing that efficiency of selection
6	The realization of the expected progress in selection
7	Selection methods, mass selection
8	Family selection and combined selection, efficiency of family selection and combined selection
9	Repeating courses and midterm exam
10	Mating systems, purebreeding inbreeding
11	Linebreeding and inbreeding
12	Crossbreeding systems
13	Combination Crossbreeding
14	Commercial crossing

23	Textbooks, References and/or Other Materials:	1. Tuncel E: Hayvan Islahı. Uludağ Üniv. Ziraat Fak. Ders Notları. No: 46, 216 s, 2009. 2. Kumlu S: Hayvan Islahı (Genişletilmiş ve düzeltilmiş 2. Baskı). 296 s. Türkiye Damızlık Sığır Yetiştiricileri Merkez Birliği Yayınları Yayın No: 1, Ankara, 2003. 3. Tüzemen N, Yanar M, Akbulut Ö: Hayvan Islahı. Atatürk Ün. Zir. Fak. Ders Yayınları No: 230, Atatürk Ün. Ziraat Fak. Ofset Tesisi, Erzurum, s. 234-250, 2003. 4. Soysal, İ. 2000. Hayvan Islahının Genetik Prensipleri. Trakya Ün. Tekirdağ Zir. Fak. Yay No: 48 Ders Notu No: 40. 5. Düzgüneş, O., Eliçin, A. ve Akman, N. 2012. Hayvan Islahı (V. Baskı) 6. Simm, G.1998. Genetic Improvement of Cattle and Sheep. Farming Press. ISBN: 0 85236 351 6
24	Assesment

TERM LEARNING ACTIVITIES	NUMBER	PERCENT
Midterm Exam	1	40
Quiz	0	0
Homeworks, Performances	0	0
Final Exam	1	60
Total	2	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
Information

ECTS / WORK LOAD TABLE

CONTRIBUTION OF LEARNING OUTCOMES TO PROGRAMME QUALIFICATIONS

LO: Learning Objectives

PQ: Program Qualifications

Contribution Level:

1 Very Low

2 Low

3 Medium

4 High

5 Very High