Avanos Vocational School Of Fine Arts

MEDICINAL AND AROMATIC PLANTS PROGRAMME

Head of Department: Lecturer Aybey İmamoğlu
Tel: 0 384 511 56 76 - IP Tel: 26022

About the Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Programme

Specific Admission Requirements

For this, candidates must apply to The Higher Education Institutions Examination (YKS) to take enough points from The Basic Proficiency Test  (TYT).

Profile of the Program

It aims to meet the need of technical staff, to train technical staff who have technical knowledge in this field, and to use new technologies.

Occupational Profiles of Graduates

The occupational areas of our program graduates are quite wide. The graduates of our program have the opportunity to work as technicians in the Provincial and District Directorate of Agriculture under the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, pharmaceutical factories, pharmacies, cosmetics industry, etc.

Students who graduate with the title of “Medicinal and Aromatic Herbal Technician” can also establish their own businesses in the field of medicinal plants. Also, graduates of the program;

Under the supervision of Agriculture, Chemistry, Food Engineers;

-In growing all kinds of medicinal plants, they ensure that necessary studies are carried out to identify and fight diseases and pests that medicinal plants may be exposed to.

-Makes the harvesting of the medicinal plants,

-Works in drying and storing plants that are collected in green,

-Works on the removal of various oils from medicinal plants. Takes part in the production of active substances in the laboratory environment,

-Prepares various pharmaceutical raw materials by grinding medicinal plants,

-Carries out the works of storing and preserving the active substances obtained from medicinal plants,

-Takes part in the making of cosmetic products; perfume, cream, ointment, lotion, etc.,

-Cleans areas such as greenhouses, fields, and warehouses with chemicals to remove microbes where medicinal plants are produced,

-Takes part in the sales and marketing of the various medicinal plants.

Access to Further Studies

Students can make the transition to upper-level programs and can be educated in the following undergraduate programs on the condition that they receive a valid grade from DGS.

Chemistry,

Field Crops,

Horticulture,

Horticultural production and marketing,

Plant Protection,

Plant production and technologies.

Department Facilities

In our program, education-teaching activities are carried out with 2 Asst. Prof Dr., and 5 Lecturers, but other university staffs who are experts in this field, can attend our departmental courses.

In our program, courses are carried out in practice fields, crop animal production laboratory, and the classroom with projection.