BYL752 - MEDICAL ARTHROPODOLOGY
| Course Name | Code | Semester | Theory (hours/week) |
Application (hours/week) |
Credit | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MEDICAL ARTHROPODOLOGY | BYL752 | 2nd Semester | 3 | 3 | 4 | 9 |
| Prequisites | - | |||||
| Course language | Turkish | |||||
| Course type | Elective | |||||
| Mode of Delivery | Face-to-Face | |||||
| Learning and teaching strategies | Lecture Discussion Question and Answer | |||||
| Instructor (s) | Prof. Dr. Osman Sert | |||||
| Course objective | With this course, it?s aimed to understood the general morphology, biology and ecology of arthropods that are harmful to animals and humans which also mechanically transport pathogens, their relationships with each other, basic symptoms of caused sicknesses and taught the fighting methods with these harmful insects. | |||||
| Learning outcomes |
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| Course Content | Descriptions, brief biology, harms and fighting methods of harmful insect and spider groups on humans and animals, especially Diptera, Hemiptera, Anoplura, Blattodea, Hymenoptera, Siphanoptera groups. | |||||
| References | 1. Zumpt F. 1965. Myiasis in Man and Animals in the Old World. Butterwoths & Co. ltd., London. 2. Mullen, G. and L. Durden. 2002. Medical and Veterinary Entomology. Academic Press, Hong Kong. 603 pp. | |||||
Course outline weekly
| Weeks | Topics |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | General knowledge about medical arthropodology (T) Identification of Nematocera (Diptera) groups (P) |
| Week 2 | Harmful Nematocera (Diptera) groups, biologies, medical importances (T) Identification of Nematocera (Diptera) groups (P) |
| Week 3 | Harmful Nematocera (Diptera) groups, biologies, medical importances (T) Identification of Brachycera (Diptera) groups (P) |
| Week 4 | Harmful Brachycera (Diptera) groups, biologies, medical importances (T) |
| Week 5 | Harmful Brachycera (Diptera) groups, biologies, medical importances (T) |
| Week 6 | Harmful Blattodea groups, biologies, medical importances (T) |
| Week 7 | Midterm exam I, Identification of Hemiptera groups (P) |
| Week 8 | Harmful Hemiptera groups, biologies, medical importances (T) Identification of Hemiptera groups (P) |
| Week 9 | Harmful Hymenoptera groups, biologies, medical importances (T) Identification of Hymenoptera groups (P) |
| Week 10 | Harmful Siphonaptera groups, biologies, medical importances (T) Identification of Hymenoptera groups (P) |
| Week 11 | Diptera groups of causing myiasis, biologies, medical importances (T) Identification of Siphonaptera groups (P) |
| Week 12 | Midterm exam II, Examination of Arenoida groups (P) |
| Week 13 | Fighting methods with harmful insect groups (T) Examination of Arenoida groups (P) |
| Week 14 | Fighting methods with harmful insect groups (T) Applications of fighting methods with harmful insect groups (P) |
| Week 15 | Studying for final exam |
| Week 16 | Final exam |
Assesment methods
| Course activities | Number | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance | 0 | 0 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 |
| Application | 0 | 0 |
| Field activities | 0 | 0 |
| Specific practical training | 0 | 0 |
| Assignments | 0 | 0 |
| Presentation | 0 | 0 |
| Project | 0 | 0 |
| Seminar | 0 | 0 |
| Midterms | 2 | 50 |
| Final exam | 1 | 50 |
| Total | 100 | |
| Percentage of semester activities contributing grade succes | 0 | 50 |
| Percentage of final exam contributing grade succes | 0 | 50 |
| Total | 100 | |
WORKLOAD AND ECTS CALCULATION
| Activities | Number | Duration (hour) | Total Work Load |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Duration (x14) | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Laboratory | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Application | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Specific practical training | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Field activities | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Study Hours Out of Class (Preliminary work, reinforcement, ect) | 13 | 10 | 130 |
| Presentation / Seminar Preparation | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Project | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Homework assignment | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Midterms (Study duration) | 2 | 15 | 30 |
| Final Exam (Study duration) | 1 | 15 | 15 |
| Total Workload | 44 | 46 | 259 |
Matrix Of The Course Learning Outcomes Versus Program Outcomes
| D.9. Key Learning Outcomes | Contrubition level* | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1. Based on the graduate level proficiency improves and deepens the actual and advanced knowledge with original thought and/or research in the level of specialty. | X | ||||
| 2. Comprehends interdisciplinary interaction related with his/her field; performs analysis and synthesis of the new and complex ideas and reaches the original results by using expert knowledge in assessment. | X | ||||
| 3. Evaluates and uses knowledge with systematic approach in his/her field; makes critical analysis, synthesis, and assessment of knowledge and transfer it. | X | ||||
| 4. Develops a new idea, method, design and/or application for innovation in his/her field or performs a known idea, method, design and/or application to a different field. Researches an original subject; comprehends, designs, adapts and implements them | X | ||||
| 5. Possesses the high level skills in using research methods in his/her field | X | ||||
| 6. Publishes at least one article related with his/her field in national or international academic journals. | X | ||||
| 7. Works in situation, which requires to solving original and interdisciplinary problems | X | ||||
| 8. Develops new ideas and methods related to his/her field using upper level intellectual processes such as innovative and critical thinking, solving problems and enacting. | X | ||||
| 9. Makes a scientific research at national or international academic groups | X | ||||
| 10. Enables to apply the results of reseach to field. | X | ||||
| 11. Contributes the solution of the social, scientific, cultural and ethical problems in his/her field and supports the improvement of these values | X | ||||
| 12. Presents the scientific and technologic progresses in his/her field, contributes the processes of being an information society where he/she lives and continuation of this. | X | ||||
*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest