Information Package / Course Catalogue
Agricultural History and Deontology
Course Code: TBY106
Course Type: Required
Couse Group: First Cycle (Bachelor's Degree)
Education Language: Turkish
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 2
Prt.: 0
Credit: 2
Lab: 0
ECTS: 3
Objectives of the Course

The aim of this course that have information about progress of agriculture trough the human history, agricultural organizations and legislations in Turkey, the ethics rules while doing Agricultural Engineering, the history of Agricultural Biotechnology, the ethics rules in Biotechnology.

Course Content

Agriculture in prehistory and being of agriculture, agriculture in times of Seljuk, Ottoman and Republic of Turkey, the history of Agricultural Biotechnology. The ethics of agriculture are formed general ethics rules as an occupation ethics and principles of occupation. Try of improve susceptibility about subjects of responsibilities of agricultural engineers, standard of true and wrong, and ethics problems concerned the occupation on the students when Agricultural Engineers are doing his job

Name of Lecturer(s)
Prof. Eyyüp Mennan YILDIRIM
Learning Outcomes
1.The students will understand of some words about agriculture
2.The students will have information about,historical development of agriculture and agricultural activity in prehistory times and some civilizations
3.The students will have information about industrial revolution and effect the agriculture of it
4.The students will have information about the agricultural organisations in Ottoman and Republic period in Turkey
5.The students will have information about the institution giving agricultural education in Turkey
6.The students will have information about the organizations and legislations about agriculture in Turkey
7.The students will have information about the problems of agriculture in Turkey
8.The students will have information about the rules, they have to adapt, when they doing their occupation
9.The students will have information about the rules of ethics in biotechnology
Recommended or Required Reading
1.Direk, M., 2010. Agricultural History and Deontology. Eğitim Kitabevi. Konya.
2.Eriş, A., 2002. Agricultural Deontology. Uludağ University, Agricultural Faculty, Textbooks, No:88.
3.Plant Biotechnology. Aplications of Genetic Engineeringı. (Ed.) Özcan, S., Babaoğlu, M. , Gürel, E. Faundation of Selçuk University Publications, 438-452.
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
Week 1 - Theoretical
IntroductionDefinitions and concepts
Week 2 - Theoretical
Agricultural Production- Agricultural production and its speciality- The development of agricultural production- Modern agriculture
Week 3 - Theoretical
Development of Agriculture- History- Some evidence about agricultural history- Starting of farming- Agricultural development in continentals
Week 4 - Theoretical
Development of agriculture by ages
Week 5 - Theoretical
Agriculture in the Seljuk and Ottoman Empire
Week 6 - Theoretical
The effect of industrial revolution in agriculture
Week 7 - Theoretical
The organizations in Agriculture- The agricultural organizations in Ottoman Empire- The agricultural organizations of Republic period in Turkey
Week 8 - Theoretical
The institutions of giving agricultural educations in Turkey
Week 9 - Theoretical
The place and importance of agriculture I TurkeyThe legislations about agriculture
Week 10 - Theoretical
The organizations in agricultural area
Week 11 - Theoretical
The problems of Agriculture in Türkiye
Week 12 - Theoretical
Agricultural ethics
Week 13 - Theoretical
The ethics and legislations in Agricultural Biotechnology
Week 14 - Theoretical
The ethics and legislations in Agricultural Biotechnology
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Type of AssessmentCountPercent
Midterm Examination1%40
Final Examination1%60
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesCountPreparationTimeTotal Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory140228
Individual Work55130
Midterm Examination1617
Final Examination1819
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)74
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
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OÇ-1
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3
OÇ-2
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4
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OÇ-9
4
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4
Adnan Menderes University - Information Package / Course Catalogue
2026