COURSE UNIT TITLE

: LEGAL TERMINOLOGY AND LEGAL WRITING

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
AMY 1018 LEGAL TERMINOLOGY AND LEGAL WRITING COMPULSORY 2 0 0 4

Offered By

Vocational School of Justice

Level of Course Unit

Short Cycle Programmes (Associate's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASISTANT PROFESSOR YAŞAR CAN GÖKSOY

Offered to

Vocational School of Justice

Course Objective

Course objective is to teach the concepts and the terms that are frequently used in legal literature and also the correspondence procedures between judicial authorities and other institutions.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Especially learning legal terminology in our positive law
2   Forming sentences with legal terms
3   Practicing legal correspondence procedures
4   Writing appropriate records in an assigned institution
5   Using Turkish accurately and fluently

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Importance of legal terminology and correspondence procedure
2 Language practice in alphabetic order having regard to its importance
3 Language practice in alphabetic order
4 Legal correspondence between the Prosecution Office and government agencies
5 Case Study
6 Terms in alphabetic order
7 Selected words in alphabetic order
8 Selected words in alphabetic order
9 Case Study
10 Case Study
11 Selected terms in alphabetic order
12 Case Study
13 Case Study
14 1st Midterm
15 1st Midterm
16 Legal vocabulary study in alphabetic order
17 Case Study
18 Legal correspondence between the Prosecution Office and administrative authorities
19 Case Study
20 Legal words in alphabetic order
21 Legal words in alphabetic order
22 Debate on pure Turkish equivalents invented by Turkish Language Association (TDK)
23 Debate on pure Turkish equivalents invented by Turkish Language Association (TDK)
24 Legal words in alphabetic order
25 Legal correspondence between The Prosecution Office and Criminal Courts
26 Legal correspondence between The Prosecution Office and The Police Department
27 Legal correspondence between The Prosecution Office and Gendarmerie
28 2nd Midterm
29 2nd Midterm

Recomended or Required Reading

1- Ali Rıza ÖNDER Yasa Dili Sözlüğü Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları Ankara 1966
2- Türk Hukuk Lügatı Yayımlayan Başbakanlık Idareyi Geliştirme Başkanlığı
4. Baskı Ankara 1998.
3- Ejder YILMAZ Hukuk Sözlüğü Ankara 2006.
4- A.Salih ERÜZ/Kahraman AKSAKAL Türkçe Sözlük Şamil Yayınevi Istanbul
1984
5- Temel Yasalar.


1- Adalet Bakanlığı resmi internet sitesi www.adalet.gov.tr.
2- Yargıtay resmi internet sitesi www.yargıtay.gov.tr.
3- Danıştay resmi internet sitesi www.danıştay.gov.tr

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Oral presentation, case study, and providing practical information by means of field trips.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE 1 MIDTERM EXAM 1
2 MTE 2 MIDTERM EXAM 2
3 MTEG MIDTERM AVERAGE GRADE MTE 1 * 0.50 +MTE 2 * 0.50
4 MTE 3 MIDTERM EXAM 3
5 FIN FINAL EXAM
6 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE 3 +FIN
7 RST RESIT
8 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE 3+RST


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

http://amyo.deu.edu.tr/esaslar.html

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

pinar.bacaksiz@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 25 2 50
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 25 1 25
Preparation for midterm exam 2 6 12
Preparation for final exam 1 16 16
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 2 1 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 107

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10
LO.11
LO.211
LO.31111
LO.4111
LO.51111