Forest Botany I

Course: Forest Botany I
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Prerequisites: Mandatory
Credits: ECTS 6
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COURSE OUTLINE

  1. GENERAL
SCHOOL AGRICULTURAL AND FORESTRY SCIENCES
DEPARTMENT DEPARTMENT OF FORESTRY AND MANAGEMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES
LEVEL OF STUDIES Undergraduate – Level 7
COURSE CODE 82Γ2Υ SEMESTER 3rd
COURSE TITLE FOREST BOTANY I
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
If the ECTS Credits are distributed in distinct parts of the course e.g. lectures, labs etc. If the ECTS Credits are awarded to the whole course, then please indicate the teaching hours per week and the corresponding ECTS Credits.		 TEACHING HOURS PER WEEK ECTS CREDITS
Lectures and personal exercise 5 6
     
Please, add lines if necessary. Teaching methods and organization of the course are described in section 4.    
COURSE TYPE

Background, General Knowledge, Scientific Area, Skill Development

 Scientific Area
PREREQUISITES:

 

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TEACHING & EXAMINATION LANGUAGE: Greek
COURSE OFFERED TO ERASMUS STUDENTS: NO
COURSE URL:
https://eclass.duth.gr/courses/OPE02270/
  1. LEARNING OUTCOMES
Learning Outcomes
Please describe the learning outcomes of the course: Knowledge, skills and abilities acquired after the successful completion of the course.
·        The course aims to

introduce students to the concepts of systematic classification and taxonomy of vascular plants.

provide knowledge of the most important families of seed plants of forest and natural ecosystems.

·         At the end of the course students will be able to

identify and classify essential plant taxa to the family and genus level

describe the basic traits of the above taxa

use identification key
General Skills
Name the desirable general skills upon successful completion of the module
Search, analysis and synthesis of data and information,

ICT Use

Adaptation to new situations

Decision making

Autonomous work

Teamwork

Working in an international environment

Working in an interdisciplinary environment

Production of new research ideas

 Project design and management

Equity and Inclusion

Respect for the natural environment

Sustainability

Demonstration of social, professional and moral responsibility and sensitivity to gender issues

Critical thinking

Promoting free, creative and inductive reasoning
Search, analysis and synthesis of data and information, ICT Use

Independent work

Literature search, data analysis and synthesis

Development of inductive reasoning

Autonomous work

Teamwork

Working in an interdisciplinary environment

Respect for the natural environment

 
  1. COURSE CONTENT
1.      Introduction to Systematics

2.      Taxonomy – Nomenclature

3.      Spermatophyta – Morphology – Reproduction

4.      Gymnosperma I

5.      Gymnosperma II

6.      Flower of Angiosperma

7.      Fruit – Seed of Angiosperma

8.      Angiosperma I – Magnoliopsida

9.      Angiosperma II – Magnoliopsida

10.   Angiosperma III – Magnoliopsida

11.   Angiosperma IV – Magnoliopsida

12.   Angiosperma V – Liliopsida

13.   Angiosperma VI – Liliopsida
  1. LEARNING & TEACHING METHODS – EVALUATION
TEACHING METHOD
Face to face, Distance learning, etc.		 In classroom face to face
USE OF INFORMATION & COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY (ICT)
Use of ICT in Teaching, in Laboratory Education, in Communication with students		 Use of ICT in Teaching, in Laboratory Education, in Communication with students. Support through e-class.
TEACHING ORGANIZATION

The ways and methods of teaching are described in detail.

Lectures, Seminars, Laboratory Exercise, Field Exercise, Bibliographic research & analysis, Tutoring, Internship (Placement), Clinical Exercise, Art Workshop, Interactive learning, Study visits, Study / creation, project, creation, project. Etc.

 

The supervised and unsupervised workload per activity is indicated here, so that total workload per semester complies to ECTS standards.
Activity Workload/semester
Lectures 40
Laboratory courses focusing in implementation of methods 25
Personal exercise 20
Team exercise in excursion 5
Summer field practicum 20
Independent study 40
Course total

(25-hour workload per credit unit)

 150
   
Student Evaluation

Description of the evaluation process

 

Assessment Language, Assessment Methods, Formative or Concluding, Multiple Choice Test, Short Answer Questions, Essay Development Questions, Problem Solving, Written Assignment, Essay / Report, Oral Exam, Presentation in audience, Laboratory Report, Clinical examination of a patient, Artistic interpretation, Other/Others

 

Please indicate all relevant information about the course assessment and how students are informed 

 

In order to pass this course, each student must succeed in personal exercise, field exercise deliverable and final written examinations.

 

Notes:

Students with identified dyslexia problems are examined orally (instead of the written final examination).

In addition, a condition for obtaining the degree is the successful completion of an individual exercise, in the context of the summer practicum.

The students’ grades are announced publicly.

The student can see his / her writing at any time.
  1. SUGGESTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
1.      Athanasiadis N. 1985. Forest Botany Part I. Systematics of Spermatophyta. Giachoudi-Giapouli Editions. Thessaloniki.

2.      Simpson M. 2016. Plant Systematics. UTOPIA Editions. Athens.

 

 

 

ANNEX OF THE COURSE OUTLINE

 

Alternative ways of examining a course in emergency situations

 

Teacher (full name): Georgios Korakis
Contact details: Via e-class platform and e-mail
Supervisors: (1)  
Evaluation methods: (2) Written examination using e-class platform
Implementation Instructions: (3) Guidance about the examination is provided through e-class announcement. In the announcement is clearly stated the way of administration of the questions to be answered, the way of submitting the answers, the duration of the exam, the grading system, the ways in which the inviolability and reliability of the exam are ensured and any other necessary information.

 

  • Please write YES or NO
  • Note down the evaluation methods used by the teacher, e.g.
  • written assignment or/and exercises
  • written or oral examination with distance learning methods, provided that the integrity and reliability of the examination are ensured.
  • In the Implementation Instructions section, the teacher notes down clear instructions to the students:

 

  1. a) in case of written assignment and / or exercises: the deadline (e.g. the last week of the semester), the means of submission, the grading system, the grade percentage of the assignment in the final grade and any other necessary information.
  2. b) in case of oral examination with distance learning methods: the instructions for conducting the examination (e.g. in groups of X people), the way of administration of the questions to be answered, the distance learning platforms to be used, the technical means for the implementation of the examination (microphone, camera, word processor, internet connection, communication platform), the hyperlinks for the examination, the duration of the exam, the grading system, the percentage of the oral exam in the final grade, the ways in which the inviolability and reliability of the exam are ensured and any other necessary information.
  3. c) in case of written examination with distance learning methods: the way of administration of the questions to be answered, the way of submitting the answers, the duration of the exam, the grading system, the percentage of the written exam of the exam in the final grade, the ways in which the integrity and reliability of the exam are ensured and any other necessary information.

There should be an attached list with the Student Registration Numbers only of students eligible to participate in the examination.