• Basic information
• Learning outcomes
• Contents
• Assessment
• Workload

Learning outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Can define the formation of the earth and the general characteristics of the universe,

   Contribution to Program Outcomes

   1. Providing students with a strong engineering qualification that will assist in problem solving and decision making and provide lifetime learning
   2. To become skillful to solve the problems encountered in the field
   3. Improve communication, problem solving, teamwork skills
   4. To evaluate the important people, events and facts in the development of the field in terms of their effects on the applications of the field

   Method of assessment

   1. Written exam
   2. Homework assignment
2. Distinguish rock types and explain the properties of minerals.

   Contribution to Program Outcomes

   1. Providing students with a strong engineering qualification that will assist in problem solving and decision making and provide lifetime learning
   2. To become skillful to solve the problems encountered in the field
   3. Improve communication, problem solving, teamwork skills
   4. To evaluate the important people, events and facts in the development of the field in terms of their effects on the applications of the field

   Method of assessment

   1. Written exam
   2. Homework assignment
3. Define basic geological processes,

   Contribution to Program Outcomes

   1. Providing students with a strong engineering qualification that will assist in problem solving and decision making and provide lifetime learning
   2. To become skillful to solve the problems encountered in the field
   3. To take part in projects that require interdisciplinary and international interaction
   4. To evaluate the important people, events and facts in the development of the field in terms of their effects on the applications of the field

   Method of assessment

   1. Written exam
   2. Homework assignment
4. Can make a sieve analysis and its interpretation.

   Contribution to Program Outcomes

   1. Providing students with a strong engineering qualification that will assist in problem solving and decision making and provide lifetime learning
   2. To become skillful to solve the problems encountered in the field
   3. Producing methods to improve existing knowledge
   4. Improve communication, problem solving, teamwork skills
   5. To evaluate the important people, events and facts in the development of the field in terms of their effects on the applications of the field

   Method of assessment

   1. Written exam
   2. Homework assignment

Contents
Week 1:	Introduction, and General information, Earth and the formation of the universe
Week 2:	Solar System and the universe
Week 3:	General features of the earth-earth's movements, shape, atmosphere and earth
Week 4:	General properties of the earth-inner layers, gravity, isostasis, magnetic field, chemical structure
Week 5:	Minerals
Week 6:	Rock cycle and volcanic rocks
Week 7:	Metamorphic Rocks and Sedimentary Rocks
Week 8:	Metamorphic Rocks and Sedimentary Rocks (Continued) - Midterm exam
Week 9:	Properties and age determination of stratified rocks, formation and evolution of living beings, tectonic deformation of stratified rocks
Week 10:	Magma, Volcanism and Plutonism, Metamorphism
Week 11:	Lithosphere movements, Earthquakes, epirogenic and orogenic movements,
Week 12:	Lithosphere movements, plate tectonics
Week 13:	Natural disasters on earth
Week 14:	Natural disasters on earth
Week 15*:	General evaluation
Week 16*:	Final
Textbooks and materials:	1. Genel Jeoloji, İhsan Ketin, İTÜ Maden Fakültesi 2. Lutgens and Tarbuck, 2001, Foundations of Earth Science 3rd Edition, Prentice Hall. 3. Laboratuvar notları
Recommended readings:	1. Genel Jeoloji, İhsan Ketin, İTÜ Maden Fakültesi 2. Lutgens and Tarbuck, 2001, Foundations of Earth Science 3rd Edition, Prentice Hall.
	* Between 15th and 16th weeks is there a free week for students to prepare for final exam.

Assessment
Method of assessment	Week number	Weight (%)
Mid-terms:	8	30
Other in-term studies:		0
Project:		0
Homework:	4,5,6,7,10,12,13	30
Quiz:		0
Final exam:	16	40
	Total weight:	(%)

Workload
Activity	Duration (Hours per week)	Total number of weeks	Total hours in term
Courses (Face-to-face teaching):	3	16
Own studies outside class:	3	16
Practice, Recitation:	0	0
Homework:	2	6
Term project:	0	0
Term project presentation:	0	0
Quiz:	0	0
Own study for mid-term exam:	2	7
Mid-term:	2	1
Personal studies for final exam:	4	15
Final exam:	3	1
		Total workload:
		Total ECTS credits:	*
	* ECTS credit is calculated by dividing total workload by 25. (1 ECTS = 25 work hours)