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| ORML7450 | Traditional Plant Inven. Meth. and App. Areas | 3+0+0 | ECTS:7.5 | | Year / Semester | Spring Semester | | Level of Course | Third Cycle | | Status | Elective | | Department | DEPARTMENT of FOREST ENGINEERING | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 3 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | Prof. Dr. Sefa AKBULUT | | Co-Lecturer | None | | Language of instruction | Turkish | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | Especially used by local people, for different purposes (medicine, food, paint, etc.), to know the culture of Ethnobotanical that emerging relationship with the wild plants and to go generations to come |
| Programme Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | PO - 1 : | explain Human-plant relationships | 1,2 | 1 | | PO - 2 : | identify wild plant resources and explain traditional use of plants | 1,2 | 3 | | PO - 3 : | explain the importance of wild plant resources in sustainable forestry | 1,2 | 5 | | PO - 4 : | determine ethnobotanical features of any place | 1,2 | 1,6 | | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), PO : Learning Outcome | | |
| Detection of sources of non-wood plant products, traditional plant use and management, ethnobotany, palaeoethnobotany, importance, management and conservation of wild plant resources in the forestry, the sustainability of wild plant resources, the use of social science techniques and anthropological methods in plant inventory and applications fields. |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Introduction to Ethnobotany | | | Week 2 | Morphological structure of plants | | | Week 3 | Traditional Botanical Knowledge | | | Week 4 | Methods in Ethnobotanical Studies | | | Week 5 | Wild plant resources and place in traditional agriculture | | | Week 6 | Understanding traditional plant use and management | | | Week 7 | The history of plant-human interaction: Palaeoethnobotanical evidence | | | Week 8 | Applied Ethnobotany: Commercialisation and Conservation | | | Week 9 | Mid-term exam | | | Week 10 | Applied Ethnobotany in Sustainable Development | | | Week 11 | The local perspective on Ethnobotanical research | | | Week 12 | Homework | | | Week 13 | Differences in local and scientific aspects of plant use | | | Week 14 | Ethnobotanical studies in Turkey and in the World | | | Week 15 | Local ethnobotanical study | | | Week 16 | End-of-term exam | | | |
| 1 | Cotton, C.M., 1999. Ethnobotany: Principles and Applications. ISBN: 0 471 95537 X, School of Lİfe Sciences, Roehampton Institute London, UK. | | | |
| 1 | Martin, G. J., 2004. Ethnobotany: A Methods Manual.ISBN: 978-1-84407-084-8. Published by Earthscan in the UK and USA. | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 9 | 17/04/2024 | 1 | 30 | | Homework/Assignment/Term-paper | 12 | 24/05/2024 | 1 | 20 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | 11/06/2024 | 1 | 50 | | |
| Student Work Load and its Distribution | | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | | Yüz yüze eğitim | 3 | 14 | 42 | | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 4 | 14 | 56 | | Laboratuar çalışması | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 8 | 1 | 8 | | Arasınav | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Uygulama | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Klinik Uygulama | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Ödev | 3 | 12 | 36 | | Proje | 3 | 12 | 36 | | Kısa sınav | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 8 | 3 | 24 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Diğer 1 | 1 | 10 | 10 | | Diğer 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Total work load | | | 215 |
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