Information Package / Course Catalogue
Vocational Practice I
Course Code: BB401
Course Type: Required
Couse Group: First Cycle (Bachelor's Degree)
Education Language: Turkish
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 0
Prt.: 2
Credit: 1
Lab: 0
ECTS: 3
Objectives of the Course

To enable undergraduate students to learn Horticulture by doing the theoretically explained applications and to improve their analytical thinking skills by consolidating what they have learned with applications. To show the agricultural enterprises in the region where horticultural crops are mainly grown and to bring together the owners of these enterprises and students. To give them the opportunity to examine employment opportunities in the private sector. To enable students to listen to congresses and panels discussing the region's agricultural activities, problems and solution suggestions.

Course Content

Collecting, harvesting and storing vegetable and ornamental plant seeds under appropriate conditions, taking cuttings to obtain fruit and vineyard saplings, planting them in fogging perlite-filled media, and grafting grafted vine saplings on the table. Pruning of fruit trees and vineyards. Implementation of necessary care conditions in greenhouse vegetable cultivation. Among the large agricultural enterprises of the region, olive sapling production enterprises and greenhouse soilless tomato cultivation, etc. visiting businesses. Monitoring panels and congresses organized by our faculty or other instituations.

Name of Lecturer(s)
Lec. Burak Erdem ALGÜL
Learning Outcomes
1.Ensuring that students learn by seeing and doing
2.Developing analytical thinking skills
3.Seeing the working conditions of the private sector in agriculture
4.To be aware of regional and national agricultural problems and solution suggestions.
5.Learning the working order of research organizations
Recommended or Required Reading
1.Genel Bahçe Bitkileri (Teksir). Prof. Dr. Rahmi Özçağıran, Prof. Dr. Ertan İtler, Prof. Dr. İsmail Karaçalı. Ege Üniversitesi Ziraat Fakültesi Bahçe Bitkileri Bölümü, İzmir.
2.Ilıman İklim Meyve Türleri (kitap). Sert çekirdekli meyve türleri-Cilt I ve Yumuşak çekirdekli meyve türleri-Cilt II. Prof. Dr. Rahmi Özçağıran, Prof. Dr. Ali Ünal, Doç. Dr. Elmas Özeker, Yrd. Doç. Dr. Murat İsfendiyaroğlu. Ege Üniversitesi Ziraat Fakültesi Yayınları, No: 553, 2003-2004.
3.Vural, H., D. Eşiyok, İ. Duman, 2000. Kültür sebzeleri, Ege Üniversitesi, İzmir. 440 s
4.Genel Meyvecilik (Kitap). Prof. Dr. Resul Gerçekcioğlu, Prof. Dr. Şükriye Bilginer, Prof. Dr. Arif Soylu. 2008. Naobel Akademik Yay. No: 1280, Ankara, 480 s.
5.Modern Meyve Yetiştiriciliği (kitap). Prof. Dr. Semih Çağlar. Nobel Akademik Yay. No: 4480, Ankara, 115 s., 2022.
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
Week 1 - Practice
Sowing seeds of horticultural crops
Week 2 - Practice
Storage of seeds
Week 3 - Practice
Applications of vegetables and ornamental plants growing
Week 4 - Practice
Greenhouse vegetable growing practices
Week 5 - Practice
Cuttings preparations of fruits species and grafting practices
Week 6 - Practice
Cuttings preparations of vine varieties and grafting practices
Week 7 - Practice
Planting and maintenance of cuttings in the fogging unit (mid-term exam)
Week 8 - Practice
Preparation and application of plant growth regulators
Week 9 - Practice
Machine grafting applications on vine varieties
Week 10 - Practice
Grafting applications on fruit species
Week 11 - Practice
Pruning applications on vine varieties
Week 12 - Practice
Visiting of agricultural enterprises
Week 13 - Practice
Technical trip
Week 14 - Practice
Attending a agricultural symposium-congress
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Type of AssessmentCountPercent
Midterm Examination1%40
Final Examination1%60
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesCountPreparationTimeTotal Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Practice141242
Midterm Examination115116
Final Examination116117
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)75
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
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OÇ-1
5
5
4
4
5
4
4
5
4
5
5
OÇ-2
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
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5
4
OÇ-3
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
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5
4
OÇ-4
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
4
5
4
OÇ-5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
4
4
4
Adnan Menderes University - Information Package / Course Catalogue
2026