Course Detail
Course Description
| Course | Code | Semester | T+P (Hour) | Credit | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INTRODUCTION to HUMAN RIGHTS | - | Fall Semester | 2+0 | 2 | 3 |
| Course Program |
| Prerequisites Courses | |
| Recommended Elective Courses |
| Language of Course | Turkish |
| Course Level | First Cycle (Bachelor's Degree) |
| Course Type | Elective |
| Course Coordinator | |
| Name of Lecturer(s) | |
| Assistant(s) | |
| Aim | On the basis of ‘human dignity’, to evaluate ontologically the rights originated in socialization of individual and emerged and diversified in historical and social processes, and the naturally gained freedoms that will be used in the struggle to get rights. |
| Course Content | This course contains; Human dignity: Definitions done by social, religious and philosophical movements.,Human dignity: It’s place in international human rights documents.,Human dignity: The faculty that separate human being from other beings.,Individual as a fact of natural being.,Individual as a fact of social being.,The dialectic coming up from the facts of natural being and social being: Freedoms and rights.,In the process of socialization of individual.,Sovereignty.,Equality and types of the implementation of equality.,Freedoms-rights, concrete actions in the use and realize freedoms and rights.,The sanctions for concrete actions in concrete cases.,The limitation of freedoms and rights or suggesting sanctions for concrete actions in concrete cases.,The basis of societal life and political order: Freedoms and rights.,The forms of state: Freedoms and rights.. |
| Dersin Öğrenme Kazanımları | Teaching Methods | Assessment Methods |
| At the end of this course, students; | 10, 16, 9 | |
| 1. Will be able to evaluate the concept of “human dignity” from his/her own point of view. | 10, 16, 9 | |
| 1.1. Define the concept of human dignity in the context of different UN human rights conventions and other human rights treaties. | 9 | |
| 1.2. Explain the concept of human dignity. | 9 | |
| 1.3. Interpret human rights on the basis of human dignity. | 10, 9 | E |
| 2. Will be able to evaluate freedoms and rights in the complex structure of the dialectical relation between ‘being the fact of natural being’ and ‘being the fact of social being’. | 19, 9 | E |
| 2.1. Define, on the basis of the faculty which differentiates human being from other living creatures, the necessary rights of individual to develop his/her physical and spiritual existence and to determine his/her | 9 | |
| 2.2. Explain freedoms and rights on the basis of concrete features (color, ethnic origin, sex, language, philosophical ideas, belief, conscience, opinion, religion, denomination, physical and mental orientations and similar differences) of the individual. | 10, 9 | |
| 2.3. Interpret the factors which alienate the individual from his/her freedoms and rights. | 9 | |
| 3. Will be able to evaluate the impact of different political approaches emerging from the discourses of ‘the limitation of freedoms and rights’ and ‘suggesting sanctions for concrete actions’ to human rights problem, and forms of state which will determine the preference on this subject. | 10, 9 | |
| 3.1. Define the concepts of freedom and right, and the possible sanctions for the acts occurred while using freedoms and rights. | 10, 9 | |
| 3.2. Explain the relation between freedoms and rights, and criminal law. | 9 | |
| 3.3. Interpret freedoms and rights from the perspective of social life and political order. | 10, 16, 9 |
| Teaching Methods: | 10: Discussion Method, 16: Question - Answer Technique, 19: Brainstorming Technique, 9: Lecture Method |
| Assessment Methods: | E: Homework |
Course Outline
| Order | Subjects | Preliminary Work |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Human dignity: Definitions done by social, religious and philosophical movements. | |
| 2 | Human dignity: It’s place in international human rights documents. | |
| 3 | Human dignity: The faculty that separate human being from other beings. | |
| 4 | Individual as a fact of natural being. | |
| 5 | Individual as a fact of social being. | |
| 6 | The dialectic coming up from the facts of natural being and social being: Freedoms and rights. | |
| 7 | In the process of socialization of individual. | |
| 8 | Sovereignty. | |
| 9 | Equality and types of the implementation of equality. | |
| 10 | Freedoms-rights, concrete actions in the use and realize freedoms and rights. | |
| 11 | The sanctions for concrete actions in concrete cases. | |
| 12 | The limitation of freedoms and rights or suggesting sanctions for concrete actions in concrete cases. | |
| 13 | The basis of societal life and political order: Freedoms and rights. | |
| 14 | The forms of state: Freedoms and rights. |
| Resources |
| The main text prepared for in class discussions and additional material which will be distributed each week. |
| Gemalmaz, Semih: Ulusalüstü İnsan Hakları Hukukunun Genel Teorisine Giriş, B. 7,İstanbulo 2007. |
Course Contribution to Program Qualifications
| Course Contribution to Program Qualifications | |||||||
| No | Program Qualification | Contribution Level | |||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |||
| 1 | 1. Know legal concepts and institutions; list the relations between these concepts and institutions. | ||||||
| 2 | 2. In addition to theoretical knowledge comprehend using, comparing, interpreting and the substance and procedures of implementation of legal rules. | ||||||
| 3 | 3. Know historical development process of law and legal systems as a branch of science. | ||||||
| 4 | 4. Have information on contemporary legal regulations, court judgments and jurisprudential views. | ||||||
| 5 | 5. Evaluate, interpret; and make researches on legal regulations, court judgments and jurisprudential views by a methodological approach. | ||||||
| 6 | 6. Settle legal disputes departing from legal rules, court judgments and jurisprudential views. | ||||||
| 7 | 7. Have the ability to find solutions to legal disputes; take initiative; behave independently and creatively. | ||||||
| 8 | 8. Resort to assistance of different fields of expertise in dealing with the unpredictable problems encountered in legal practice and take responsibility in team works. | ||||||
| 9 | 9. Undertake planning and management of activities for professional progress of employees working under their authority and responsibility. | ||||||
| 10 | 10. Follow and evaluate the developments in theory and practice of law. | ||||||
| 11 | 11. Deal with the social and legal problems with a critical perspective and produce solutions for these problems. | ||||||
| 12 | 12. Have the awareness of the need for life-long learning (continuous education). | ||||||
| 13 | 13. Inform individuals and institutions on legal subjects; present oral and written proposals with reasoning. | ||||||
| 14 | 14. Use information and communication technologies in the field of legal profession effectively. | ||||||
| 15 | 15. Know a foreign language at the level of following international developments and communicating with other lawyers worldwide. | ||||||
| 16 | 16. Plan professional projects and activities and implement them with sense of social responsibility. | ||||||
| 17 | 17. Have the basic knowledge of the structure of international society and forms of relations; and evaluates international problems. | ||||||
| 18 | 18. As a lawyer who recognizes universal principles of law, protects and defends rule of law quality of Turkish Republic. | ||||||
| 19 | 19. Have a sense of professional and ethical responsibility. | ||||||
| 20 | 20. Have the capacity of evaluation and competency of finding solutions for legal disputes from the point of positive and ideal law. | ||||||
Assessment Methods
| Contribution Level | Absolute Evaluation | |
| Rate of Midterm Exam to Success | 40 | |
| Rate of Final Exam to Success | 60 | |
| Total | 100 | |
| ECTS / Workload Table | ||||||
| Activities | Number of | Duration(Hour) | Total Workload(Hour) | |||
| Course Hours | 14 | 2 | 28 | |||
| Guided Problem Solving | 14 | 2 | 28 | |||
| Resolution of Homework Problems and Submission as a Report | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Term Project | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Presentation of Project / Seminar | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Quiz | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Midterm Exam | 14 | 11 | 154 | |||
| General Exam | 1 | 22 | 22 | |||
| Performance Task, Maintenance Plan | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Total Workload(Hour) | 232 | |||||
| Dersin AKTS Kredisi = Toplam İş Yükü (Saat)/30*=(232/30) | 8 | |||||
| ECTS of the course: 30 hours of work is counted as 1 ECTS credit. | ||||||
Detail Informations of the Course
Course Description
| Course | Code | Semester | T+P (Hour) | Credit | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INTRODUCTION to HUMAN RIGHTS | - | Fall Semester | 2+0 | 2 | 3 |
| Course Program |
| Prerequisites Courses | |
| Recommended Elective Courses |
| Language of Course | Turkish |
| Course Level | First Cycle (Bachelor's Degree) |
| Course Type | Elective |
| Course Coordinator | |
| Name of Lecturer(s) | |
| Assistant(s) | |
| Aim | On the basis of ‘human dignity’, to evaluate ontologically the rights originated in socialization of individual and emerged and diversified in historical and social processes, and the naturally gained freedoms that will be used in the struggle to get rights. |
| Course Content | This course contains; Human dignity: Definitions done by social, religious and philosophical movements.,Human dignity: It’s place in international human rights documents.,Human dignity: The faculty that separate human being from other beings.,Individual as a fact of natural being.,Individual as a fact of social being.,The dialectic coming up from the facts of natural being and social being: Freedoms and rights.,In the process of socialization of individual.,Sovereignty.,Equality and types of the implementation of equality.,Freedoms-rights, concrete actions in the use and realize freedoms and rights.,The sanctions for concrete actions in concrete cases.,The limitation of freedoms and rights or suggesting sanctions for concrete actions in concrete cases.,The basis of societal life and political order: Freedoms and rights.,The forms of state: Freedoms and rights.. |
| Dersin Öğrenme Kazanımları | Teaching Methods | Assessment Methods |
| At the end of this course, students; | 10, 16, 9 | |
| 1. Will be able to evaluate the concept of “human dignity” from his/her own point of view. | 10, 16, 9 | |
| 1.1. Define the concept of human dignity in the context of different UN human rights conventions and other human rights treaties. | 9 | |
| 1.2. Explain the concept of human dignity. | 9 | |
| 1.3. Interpret human rights on the basis of human dignity. | 10, 9 | E |
| 2. Will be able to evaluate freedoms and rights in the complex structure of the dialectical relation between ‘being the fact of natural being’ and ‘being the fact of social being’. | 19, 9 | E |
| 2.1. Define, on the basis of the faculty which differentiates human being from other living creatures, the necessary rights of individual to develop his/her physical and spiritual existence and to determine his/her | 9 | |
| 2.2. Explain freedoms and rights on the basis of concrete features (color, ethnic origin, sex, language, philosophical ideas, belief, conscience, opinion, religion, denomination, physical and mental orientations and similar differences) of the individual. | 10, 9 | |
| 2.3. Interpret the factors which alienate the individual from his/her freedoms and rights. | 9 | |
| 3. Will be able to evaluate the impact of different political approaches emerging from the discourses of ‘the limitation of freedoms and rights’ and ‘suggesting sanctions for concrete actions’ to human rights problem, and forms of state which will determine the preference on this subject. | 10, 9 | |
| 3.1. Define the concepts of freedom and right, and the possible sanctions for the acts occurred while using freedoms and rights. | 10, 9 | |
| 3.2. Explain the relation between freedoms and rights, and criminal law. | 9 | |
| 3.3. Interpret freedoms and rights from the perspective of social life and political order. | 10, 16, 9 |
| Teaching Methods: | 10: Discussion Method, 16: Question - Answer Technique, 19: Brainstorming Technique, 9: Lecture Method |
| Assessment Methods: | E: Homework |
Course Outline
| Order | Subjects | Preliminary Work |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Human dignity: Definitions done by social, religious and philosophical movements. | |
| 2 | Human dignity: It’s place in international human rights documents. | |
| 3 | Human dignity: The faculty that separate human being from other beings. | |
| 4 | Individual as a fact of natural being. | |
| 5 | Individual as a fact of social being. | |
| 6 | The dialectic coming up from the facts of natural being and social being: Freedoms and rights. | |
| 7 | In the process of socialization of individual. | |
| 8 | Sovereignty. | |
| 9 | Equality and types of the implementation of equality. | |
| 10 | Freedoms-rights, concrete actions in the use and realize freedoms and rights. | |
| 11 | The sanctions for concrete actions in concrete cases. | |
| 12 | The limitation of freedoms and rights or suggesting sanctions for concrete actions in concrete cases. | |
| 13 | The basis of societal life and political order: Freedoms and rights. | |
| 14 | The forms of state: Freedoms and rights. |
| Resources |
| The main text prepared for in class discussions and additional material which will be distributed each week. |
| Gemalmaz, Semih: Ulusalüstü İnsan Hakları Hukukunun Genel Teorisine Giriş, B. 7,İstanbulo 2007. |
Course Contribution to Program Qualifications
| Course Contribution to Program Qualifications | |||||||
| No | Program Qualification | Contribution Level | |||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |||
| 1 | 1. Know legal concepts and institutions; list the relations between these concepts and institutions. | ||||||
| 2 | 2. In addition to theoretical knowledge comprehend using, comparing, interpreting and the substance and procedures of implementation of legal rules. | ||||||
| 3 | 3. Know historical development process of law and legal systems as a branch of science. | ||||||
| 4 | 4. Have information on contemporary legal regulations, court judgments and jurisprudential views. | ||||||
| 5 | 5. Evaluate, interpret; and make researches on legal regulations, court judgments and jurisprudential views by a methodological approach. | ||||||
| 6 | 6. Settle legal disputes departing from legal rules, court judgments and jurisprudential views. | ||||||
| 7 | 7. Have the ability to find solutions to legal disputes; take initiative; behave independently and creatively. | ||||||
| 8 | 8. Resort to assistance of different fields of expertise in dealing with the unpredictable problems encountered in legal practice and take responsibility in team works. | ||||||
| 9 | 9. Undertake planning and management of activities for professional progress of employees working under their authority and responsibility. | ||||||
| 10 | 10. Follow and evaluate the developments in theory and practice of law. | ||||||
| 11 | 11. Deal with the social and legal problems with a critical perspective and produce solutions for these problems. | ||||||
| 12 | 12. Have the awareness of the need for life-long learning (continuous education). | ||||||
| 13 | 13. Inform individuals and institutions on legal subjects; present oral and written proposals with reasoning. | ||||||
| 14 | 14. Use information and communication technologies in the field of legal profession effectively. | ||||||
| 15 | 15. Know a foreign language at the level of following international developments and communicating with other lawyers worldwide. | ||||||
| 16 | 16. Plan professional projects and activities and implement them with sense of social responsibility. | ||||||
| 17 | 17. Have the basic knowledge of the structure of international society and forms of relations; and evaluates international problems. | ||||||
| 18 | 18. As a lawyer who recognizes universal principles of law, protects and defends rule of law quality of Turkish Republic. | ||||||
| 19 | 19. Have a sense of professional and ethical responsibility. | ||||||
| 20 | 20. Have the capacity of evaluation and competency of finding solutions for legal disputes from the point of positive and ideal law. | ||||||
Assessment Methods
| Contribution Level | Absolute Evaluation | |
| Rate of Midterm Exam to Success | 40 | |
| Rate of Final Exam to Success | 60 | |
| Total | 100 | |