Bahçe Tarımı Ön Lisans Diploması

In order to obtain the Associate Degree in the field of Horticulture, students must successfully complete the required compulsory and elective courses (total of 120 ECTS) required to be taken in the programme and have a CGPA of at least 2.0 out of 4.00.

Has general professional knowledge about horticulture. Plans, implements and follows the whole production process in horticultural agriculture, recognizes agricultural tools and machinery. Comprehends the place of horticultural plants in the systematic, botanical and ecological characteristics and cultivation techniques. Has basic knowledge about cell, organ structure and physiology, vital activities, plant-water-soil relationship, meteorological events, plant ecology and environmental problems, organic agriculture and its principles in plants. Recognizes greenhouse cultivation and applies it in terms of vegetable growing, grows and reproduces seedlings and saplings. Has knowledge about irrigation methods, soil types and soil cultivation, fertilizer types and plant nutrition and fertilization and applies them. Recognizes and controls the diseases and pests of garden plants and weeds. Has knowledge about agricultural economics, economic concepts and principles, structural features of agricultural activity and issues related to agricultural sector problems. Has knowledge about the role of extension in agricultural development, determination of production problems and planning, execution and monitoring of the studies for solution. Uses computer software and information and communication technologies related to the field. Defines, collects, analyzes, interprets data related to the field and develops solutions. Uses Turkish effectively in written and oral form. Speaks a foreign language at a level to be able to follow the information in the professional field and to communicate with colleagues. Selects a specific topic as an individual and/or group member on a topic related to horticulture, searches the literature on the subject, synthesizes the collected information, writes and presents it. Has awareness about Atatürk's Principles and has knowledge about the History of Revolution. Recognizes the application of new techniques and technologies developed to garden plants.

In order to obtain the Associates Degree in the field of Horticulture, students must successfully complete the required compulsory and elective courses (total of 120 ECTS) required to be taken in the programme and have a CGPA of at least 2.0 out of 4.00.

Candidates who graduate from high school are placed in the Horticulture Associate Degree Program if they get the required YGS-6 score in the Higher Education Transition Exam conducted by the Head of Student Selection and Placement Center (ÖSYM).

Graduates of Horticulture program can be employed in public or private agricultural institutions (Chambers of Agriculture, Agricultural Credit Cooperatives, producer unions and agricultural unions, agricultural credit departments of banks, Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock, technical consultancy and supervision of food enterprises, producer consultancy offices, Ministry of Environment, the Ministry of Forestry and Water Affairs, ship spraying and drafting works, Irrigation Unions, Turkish Grain Board, as an agricultural expert in courts, as well as work in their own agricultural enterprises.

Qualification is continuous