Kocaeli University / European Credit Transfer System (ECTS)

Name of Lecturer(s)

Associate Prof. Dr. Günay GÖNÜLLÜ
Associate Prof. Dr. Örgen UĞURLU ORTAÇ

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
Program Competencies-Learning Outcomes Relation

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1) They would gain practical thinking about the environmental problems of Turkey and the world.
2) They also would obtain that environmental problems affect not only the country they appear, but these global environmental problems endanger the world totally.
3) They would gain sensitivity on developing an international initiative against a global ecological disaster as reducing ozone layer, conservatory affect of the carbondioxide, e.t.c.
4) They would have knowledge about environmental and community relations, and related intellectual knowledge.
5) They would have knowledge about objectives of environmental policy, administration and environmental economic tools and thier international dimensions.

Program Competencies-Learning Outcomes Relation

		Program Competencies
		1
Learning Outcomes
	1	High
	2	High
	3	No relation
	4	High
	5	High

Mode of Delivery

Face to Face

Prerequisites and Co-Requisites

None

Recommended Optional Programme Components

Not Required

Course Contents

Modern thinking which is abstracting the world from the sacredness, inoculated to minds that humans who are weak against the nature should exploit the nature. Especially, in the Western Europe, the fact of production for developing market created a consumption fetishism. As a result of the extreme consumption, the wastes of consumer goods formed large garbage areas on the world. The recycling of the goods produced in the end of different chemical procedures take thousand of years. It is possible to take measures against these dangers by training new generation sensitively to environmental problems. This lesson is considered between these mentioned aims.

Weekly Schedule

1) Course contents
2) Environmental policies in terms of the method
3) Liberal capitalist environmental policies
4) Marxist environmental policies
5) Development of environmental policies
6) Environmental rights and sustainablety
7) The economy politics of the environment
8) Philosophical foundations of environmental currents
9) International dimensions of environmental policy
10) Access to information, participation and environmental crime
11) Environmental justice and environmental security
12) Environmental policy in Turkey: the Ottoman-era unplanned
13) Environmental policy in Turkey: Era planned
14) Environmental in the political party and government programs
15) The role of NGOs, the private sector and local governments
16) Final examination

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods and Criteria

Contribution of Semester Studies to Course Grade

50%

		Number	Percentage
Semester Studies	Quiz	1	50%
Semester Studies	Presentation/Seminar	1	50%

Contribution of Final Examination to Course Grade

50%

Total

100%

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)