COURSE UNIT TITLE

: FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
KMH 6023 FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 7

Offered By

Public Law

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASISTANT PROFESSOR TIJEN DÜNDAR SEZER

Offered to

Public Law

Course Objective

The objective of this course is, to make students be capable of English terminology about fundamental rights and freedoms, to make them understand and discuss the decisions of European Court Of Human Rights.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Having a good command of the English terminology about fundamental rights and freedoms
2   To express the English documents about fundamental rights and freedoms
3   To analyse the decisions of European Court Of Human Rights
4   To evaluate about fundamental rights and freedoms
5   To translate the English documents about the fundamental rights and freedoms in to Turkish

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Teaching the basic concepts about fundamental rights and freedoms (Introduction)
2 Text translation about the general theory of fundamental right
3 Text translation about the types of fundamental rights and freedoms
4 Text translation about the progress of fundamental rights and freedoms
5 Teaching the terminology about spesific fundamental rights and freedoms
6 Terminology and text translation about the national dimension of fundamental rights and freedoms
7 Text translation about the international dimensions of fundamental rights and freedoms
8 Intermediate
9 Teaching the terminology about Convention of the European Court Of Human Rights
10 Text translation about the characteristic of European Convention on Human Rights
11 Teaching the terminology about rights in European Convention on Human Rights
12 Text translation about rights in European Convention on Human Rights (individual rights)
13 Text translation about rights in European Convention on Human Rights (political rights )
14 Text translation about rights in European Convention on Human Rights (about personal rights)

Recomended or Required Reading

Main literature:Jack Donnely, International Human Rights, Westviev press, 1998.
Secondary literature: Clare Ovey-Robin White, The European Convention on Human Rights, Oxford University Press
Other materials: Decisions of European Court Of Human Rights

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Teaching the legal terms about fundamental rights and freedoms, reading and understanding the documents about fundamental rights and freedoms and the decisions of European Court Of Human Rights and translating English to Turkish.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.30 + FIN* 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.30 + RST* 0.40


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 2 28
Preparation for midterm exam 1 36 36
Preparation for final exam 1 40 40
Preparing presentations 1 25 25
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 175

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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