WATER FOOTPRINT
- Course
- ENVE313 - WATER FOOTPRINT
- Department
- Environmental Engineering - English - Undergraduate
- Course Type
- Course
- Status
- Required
- Language
- English
- Credit
- 3
- ECTS
- 4
- T+P+L
- 3 + 0 + 0
- Course Coordinator(s)
- Assoc. Prof. Dr. Şifa DOĞAN
- Prerequisite
- -
Course Description
The aim of this course is to discuss personal, industrial and countrywide water consumption behavior and factors affecting it as well as strategies to achieve goals set for sustainable water consumption by United Nations. Some of the themes that will be covered in this course are water footprint, blue, green and grey water footprints, water footprint evaluation steps, personal water footprints, agricultural and industrial footprints, Country’s footprints, availability and dependency on water, status of country’s water footprints. Students will be able to calculate their own footprints. They will evaluate the water footprint values for various countries and discuss the differences. Students will observe the uneven distribution of the world’s water resources and also the differences in worldwide consumption habits. In this course the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals particularly the ones involving water footprint themes will be investigated.
WATER FOOTPRINT
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Course Syllabus
| Week | Topic |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Introduction to Water Footprints: Concept, metrics, history |
| Week 2 | Introduction to Water Footprints: Concept, metrics, history |
| Week 3 | The Water Footprint Assessment (WFA) Framework |
| Week 4 | Agricultural Water Footprints |
| Week 5 | Industrial and Corporate Water Accounting |
| Week 6 | Review |
| Week 7 | Midterm exam |
| Week 8 | Midterm exam |
| Week 9 | Homework, project topic assignments and discussions |
| Week 10 | National and Consumer Water Footprints |
| Week 11 | Water Footprint Sustainability Assessment |
| Week 12 | Water Footprint Sustainability Assessment |
| Week 13 | Homework discussions (Project discussions, presentations) |
| Week 14 | Homework discussions (Project discussions, presentations) |
| Week 15 | Final exam |
Reference Books & Course Materials
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Learning Outcomes
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Program Outcomes
- P01 1. Recognized and applied all the learning tools and techniques learnt which they will implement throughout their lives and future careers.
- P02 2. Become confident in their knowledge and skills so that they can successfully study and work on their own.
- P03 3. Attained a high level of professionalism through the fundamental knowledge and skills gained in both marketing and digital fields.
- P04 4. Demonstrated a solid understanding of core business principles in the primary areas of digital marketing, web technologies, new media and management, as well as the interconnectedness of these disciplines in the running of an organization.
- P05 5. Been able to critically implement their knowledge and skills in both written, oral and digital forms to an intended audience, based on creative and analytical approaches.
- P06 6.Demonstrated their understanding of the ethical and protected use of various new media such as social media, mobile technology, web analytics, search engine optimization, and viral advertising in both their studies and careers.
- P07 7. Implemented best practices in business for planning, decision-making, and problem-solving based on collaborative work and studies.
- P08 8. Demonstrated effective communication skills in addition to in-depth of analysis and synthesis which are essential in multicultural educational and work contexts.
- P09 9. Demonstrated critical thinking characterized by the ability to define business problems with the evidence available, discern fact from opinion, determine underlying causes, formulate and evaluate potential solutions.
- P10 10. Been able to implement ideas and concepts through the development and creation of digital content for effective social media marketing strategies, and designing and evaluating the effectiveness of interactive web sites to increase web traffic flows, visibility, consumer satisfaction and response rates.
- P11 11. Embodied integrity in their work and actions, honor confidentiality, followed generally accepted codes of conduct in the digital marketing industry.
- P12 12. Devoted themselves to follow the codes of ethics, improve privacy issues with social media, conflict, and citizenship in order to frame a better understanding of digital marketing.
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