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
Museology
.
Translation and Interpreting
.
Turkish Language and Literature
Translation and Interpreting(Turkish-German-English)
Psychology
Archeology
Comparative Literature
Philosophy
Linguistics
History
Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies (English)
History
Comparative Literature

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


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

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.14
LO.1
LO.22
LO.32
LO.4
LO.52