COURSE UNIT TITLE

: SOCIAL PROBLEMS IN TURKEY

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ESH 0057 SOCIAL PROBLEMS IN TURKEY ELECTIVE 2 0 0 4

Offered By

Faculty Of Letters

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR ÖZKAN YILDIZ

Offered to

American Culture and Literature
Archeology
Translation and Interpreting
.
Translation and Interpreting(Turkish-German-English)
Psychology
Archeology
Philosophy
Linguistics
History
History

Course Objective

to reveal social problems which are lived in society.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   to discuss many problems as poverty, inequality, starvation etc.
2   to understand a series of social problems as mass and common employment, discrimination etc.
3   to approach women, children, old persons, the handicapped,patients.
4   to realize persons who was mentioned to social services.
5   to enhance solidarity in society and to lay the foundations a healty society.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Industrial revalution and social problems
2 Institution of family and the reasons of violence in the family
3 poverty
4 unemployment
5 disability
6 kinds of disability
7 child problems
8 solutions
9 mid-term exam
10 dealing ways with poverty and unemployment
11 guilty
12 criminal sociological theories

Recomended or Required Reading

Akın, G.(2006), Her yönüyle Yaşlılık, Ankara:Palme
Koşar N. (1996), Sosyal Hizmetlerde Yaşlı Refahı Alanı, Ankara.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

face to face

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST * 0.60

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Exams

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

mail: ozkan.yildiz@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 16 3 48
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 16 2 32
Midterm 1 6 6
Final 1 12 12
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 98

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15
LO.15
LO.25
LO.35
LO.45
LO.55