Organik Tarım (Safiye Çıkrıkçıoğlu MYO) Ön Lisans Diploması

3142.32 Organic Agriculture Technician

 ISCO:08

3142.32 Organic Agriculture Technician

 ISCO:08

Organic Agriculture is a form of controlled and certified agricultural production from production to consumption without using chemical inputs in production. The aim of organic agriculture is to protect the environment, plant, animal and human health without polluting soil and water resources and air. The aim of our programme is to train ‘Organic Agriculture Technician’ who has developed environmental protection awareness in the field of organic agriculture with theoretical and practical teaching and knows how to use production techniques in accordance with the Organic Agriculture legislation that does not harm the environment and human health. In the programme, there is a technical infrastructure that allows the theoretical and practical demonstration of the basic principles of organic production and production processes. Organic Agriculture Programme, which takes students with YGS-6 score type, started its education and training activities by meeting its first students in 1995-1996 academic year. The programme is structured in the form of basic field courses, vocational field specialisation courses and field applications. Graduates of Vocational and Technical High Schools related to the field of Agriculture in the Organic Agriculture programme; While being placed in vocational and higher education associate degree programmes, placement points will be obtained by multiplying the OBP by 0.12 and adding it to their scores; In addition, additional points to be obtained by multiplying the OBP by 0.06 will be added to the placement points. Candidates who graduated from other high schools will be able to place in the Organic Agriculture programme with TYT score.

Programme Educational Objectives; To train self-educated Organic Agriculture Technicians who can work in public institutions, to train Organic Agriculture Technicians who can establish their own agricultural enterprises and work in private sector organisations, to train individuals / producers who know the harm of chemicals to human, animal and environmental health and are conscious about healthy foods within the framework of Organic Agriculture production legislation.

Classrooms, laboratories, application areas, greenhouse, public institutions, private sector institutions.

•   Explains organic farming practices, installation and production processes of the enterprise in accordance with the legislation.
•   Explains and applies the principles of organic farming and methods of combating diseases, pests and weeds.
•  By following the developments related to organic agriculture and learning the basic principles of organic agriculture, explains the certification processes of organic agricultural products and applies them in the field.
•  Has the ability to use the necessary tools and equipment that can be used in organic farming programme and transfers them to practical applications by evaluating new developments in this field.
•  Gains knowledge in the production, storage and marketing of organic products and develops strategies about the problems and solutions that may occur in these issues.
•  Understands the nature, biodiversity, sustainable agriculture developments and the effects of chemicals on human life and has knowledge about social responsibility and legal bases in organic agriculture.
•  At the level of knowledge and skills, he/she can explain his/her thoughts to people who are far from his/her subject by establishing written and oral communication.
•   To have the ability to communicate with international colleagues to the extent that he/she can improve his/her knowledge of English.
•  To be able to use the general knowledge of Basic Mathematics and Science and information and communication technologies on technical issues at the level required by the field of Organic Agriculture to solve problems in the field of the profession.
•       In business life, being a qualified employee fulfils the requirements of the philosophy of learning with the awareness of professional and ethical responsibility.

Advanced level of the following key competencies:

• To have social, scientific, cultural and ethical values in the stages of collecting, applying and announcing the results of the data related to the field.
• To have sufficient awareness of the universality of social rights, social justice, quality and cultural values, environmental protection, occupational health and safety.

Each student must register for the courses at the beginning of the semester and must attend at least 70% of the courses and at least 80% of the practices in order to take the final exam. Students are subjected to at least 1 midterm and final exam for each course. The contribution of the midterm exam (scores obtained from measurement tools such as homework, laboratory exams, quizzes, etc. can also be evaluated as midterm grades) to the success grade is 40% and the contribution of the final exam is 60%. All exams are evaluated out of 100 points. It is obligatory to get at least 50 points from the final exam. Students who receive one of the letter grades AA, BA, BB, CB and CC from a course are considered to have succeeded in that course. DC and DD grades are conditionally successful grades. In order for a student to be successful in a course with a DC or DD grade, the overall weighted grade point average must be at least 2.0.

In order to monitor the quality of higher education programs;

• YÖK is responsible for planning, organizing, managing and supervising the education and training and other activities carried out in higher education institutions.

• “University Monitoring and Evaluation Reports” of higher education institutions prepared within the framework of the criteria determined by YÖK are published every year. The reports prepared according to these reports, which include quantitative and qualitative evaluations of higher education institutions, are shared with the public by YÖK.

• YÖK publishes the “Foundation Higher Education Institutions Report” containing academic, administrative and financial data of foundation higher education institutions every year. These reports, which include quantitative and qualitative evaluations of foundation higher education institutions, are shared with the public by YÖK. The quality assurance of undergraduate programs in higher education is provided according to the “Procedures and Principles for Providing Quality Assurance of Higher Education Diploma Programs”:

1. Creation and Approval of Curriculum:

1.1. YÖK determines the minimum standards and criteria required for opening undergraduate departments and programs in higher education institutions.

1.2. The curriculum of undergraduate programs in higher education institutions and the learning outcomes that each program will provide to students are determined by the senates of higher education institutions in accordance with the basic principles determined by YÖK on these issues.

1.3. The curriculum of the National Core Education Programs is implemented by higher education institutions with the approval of YÖK after being approved by the relevant Deans' Council.

2. Measurement-Evaluation: How the measurement and evaluation of the learning outcomes that each undergraduate program will provide to students will be carried out is carried out in accordance with the education, training and examination regulations prepared by higher education institutions in accordance with the basic principles determined by YÖK on these issues.

3. Certification: Students enrolled in undergraduate programs receive a bachelor's degree if they successfully complete the course credits and other obligations determined by higher education institutions.

4. Self-Assessment-External Evaluation: In the context of continuous monitoring, higher education institutions enter the “Internal Institutional Evaluation Reports” of the previous year into the Information System prepared by the Higher Education Quality Board (YÖKAK) at the beginning of each year. YÖKAK shares the “Institutional Feedback Report” prepared for the external evaluation of higher education institutions with the public. In addition, accreditation decisions made by accreditation institutions authorized or recognized by YÖKAK also show that the quality assurance of the program qualifications is provided. YÖKAK conducts regular review activities regarding the qualifications determined in accordance with the legislation.

It is determined by the Measurement, Selection and Placement Centre (ÖSYM) in line with the relevant legislation of the Council of Higher Education (YÖK). The Organic Agriculture Programme is placed according to the preference ranking of those who score 150 and above in the TYT score type from the Higher Education Institutions Examination (YKS) conducted by the Measurement, Selection and Placement Centre (ÖSYM).

Students who graduate from the Organic Agriculture Programme are required to take the Vertical Transfer Examination (DGS) conducted by the Measurement, Selection and Placement Centre (ÖSYM) in order to continue their undergraduate education. Students who graduated from this programme can find detailed information from the Vocational Schools Graduates' Vertical Transfer Examination to Undergraduate Education (DGS) Guide, which shows the undergraduate programmes to which they can apply within the scope of vertical transfer, the conditions of these programmes and the number of students to be admitted to these programmes. Graduates who have successfully completed their associate degree education can make vertical transfer to 4-year undergraduate programmes such as ‘Horticulture’, ‘Field Crops’, ‘Soil and Plant Nutrition’, ‘Plant Protection’, ‘Organic Agriculture Management’, Agricultural Economics’ Departments of the Faculties of Agriculture of universities, provided that they get enough points from the DGS organised by ÖSYM.

The Department of Crop and Animal Production was established within the Safiye Çıkrıkçıoğlu Vocational School with the decision of the Board of Higher Education dated 26/04/1995 and 8774 and started education by accepting its first students in 1995-1996 academic year. Later, it was separated from Erciyes University in 2018 and has been continuing its educational activities at Kayseri University on the 15 July campus since 2020.

The qualification is valid at all times.