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| PEM3005 | Groundcover Plants | 2+0+0 | ECTS:4 | | Year / Semester | Fall Semester | | Level of Course | First Cycle | | Status | Elective | | Department | DEPARTMENT of LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | Face to face, Practical | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 2 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | Prof. Dr. Cengiz ACAR | | Co-Lecturer | None | | Language of instruction | Turkish | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | The course aims to provide the students with knowledge on native and exotic ground cover plants that can be used as landscape planting, to enable them to understand how ground cover plants design to landscape, to help them use their knowledge to understand the visual, ecological and functional properties of groundcover plant |
| Learning Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | LO - 1 : | summarise the properties the ground cover plants and be able explain its relation to the landscape planting design. | 3,4 | | | LO - 2 : | classify native and exotic ground cover plants. | 3,4 | | | LO - 3 : | apply various planting techniques in design schemes. | 3,4 | | | LO - 4 : | evaluate the results of ground cover plants in practices. | 3,4 | | | LO - 5 : | adapt the results and outcome of any lecture practices to landscape design process. | 3,4 | | | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), LO : Learning Outcome | | |
| Ground cover plants as designing materials. Properties and general assessments of ground cover plants. Ground cover classifications. Grass as ground covers, establishment and caring techniques of lawn. Botanical, ecological and aesthetical properties of woody needled, broad leaved, annual, biannual and perennial ground covers, ground cover rhododendrons, roses, bamboos, succulents, bulbous, climbing plants etc. Their implications for usage potentials in Landscape Architecture. |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | The introduction of groundcover plants | | | Week 2 | What is the ground cover plants? | | | Week 3 | The importance the ground cover plants | | | Week 4 | Some natural and exotic ground cover plants | | | Week 5 | Annual, biannual and perennial ground covers | | | Week 6 | Roses, Rhododendrons, Bamboos | | | Week 7 | Succulents | | | Week 8 | Mid-term exam | | | Week 9 | Bulbs, Vines | | | Week 10 | Small or dwarf Shrubs | | | Week 11 | Conifers | | | Week 12 | Ferns, moss and lichens | | | Week 13 | Lawn, grasses, lawn establishment | | | Week 14 | Design with ground covers | | | Week 15 | Style and theme in ground cover plantings | | | Week 16 | End-of-term exam | | | |
| 1 | MacKenzie, D. 2002, Perennial Ground Covers, Timber Pres, 452 p. | | | |
| 1 | Sinton, N. and Michener, D. C. 2002, Taylor's Guide to Ground Covers: More than 400 Flowering and Foliage Ground Covers for Every Garden Situation - Flexible Binding (Taylor's Gardening Guides) , Houghton Mifflin, New York, 375 p. | | | 2 | Darke, R. 2007, The Encyclopedia of Grasses for Livable Landscapes, Timber Press, 484 p. | | | 3 | Ellis, B. W. 2007, Covering Ground, Storey Publishing, New York, 224 p. | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 8 | 24.11.2021 | 4 | 20 | | Practice | 4
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2 | 30 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | 13.01.2021 | 4 | 50 | | |
| Student Work Load and its Distribution | | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | | Yüz yüze eğitim | 2 | 16 | 32 | | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 4 | 12 | 48 | | Laboratuar çalışması | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Arasınav | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Uygulama | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Klinik Uygulama | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Ödev | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Proje | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Kısa sınav | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 1 | 10 | 10 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 1 | 10 | 10 | | Diğer 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Diğer 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Total work load | | | 106 |
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