COURSE UNIT TITLE

: HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
KMY 5109 HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Public Administration

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

Offered to

Public Administration

Course Objective

It is aimed to explain definition of human rights , democracy, freedom and equality and analyse of democratic culture, rights and freedoms, regulations about women and kid rights.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Being able to understand the concept of human rights for democracy
2   Common develpment of human rights and democracy, the understanding of contemporary democracy
3   Being able to analyse threats against human rights in democratic and non-democratic countries
4   Being able to o understand similarities and differences of sources in international,regional and constitutional arena
5   Being able to define international declerations and agreements related to human rights

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The concept of human rights and rights
2 Democracy concept and the emergence of democracy, democratic liberalizm
3 Social Contract and Value of Human
4 Negative and Positive Human Rights
5 The availability of sustainability og human rights permanent universality
6 Interneational HUman Rights Declaration. Agreements about Genocide, Ethnicity and Sexual discrimination
7 Midterm
8 General Assessment
9 Regioanal Means: European System, American Insider System and African Charter
10 Virginia Decleration, Independence Decleration,American Constitution and Federalist Documents
11 Relation between representative governernment, democracy, freedom and individual rights
12 Organizations protecting human rights
13 Premises and practises of countries about human rights
14 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Main resources:
Andrew Clapham, Insan Hakları, Dost Kitabevi, Ankara
Erol Anar, Insan Hakları Tarihi, Chiviyazıları Yayınevi, Istanbul, 2000.
Johan Galtung, Bir Başka Açıdan Insan Hakları, Metis Yayınları, Istanbul.
Edward Said, Hümanizm ve Demokratik Eleştiri.
Tülay Özüerman, Türkiye'nin Batılılaşma ve Demokratikleşme Açmazı, DEU Yayınları, Izmir, 1998.
Tülay Özüerman, Türkiye Için Nasıl Bir Anayasa Anayasaya Siyasal Bir Yaklaşım, Alfa Yayınları, Istanbul, 1992.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Making analyses of articles
Presentations
Participation
Case study discussion
Preparing project

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 * 0.20 + STT* 0.40 + FIN* 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.20 + STT * 0.40 + RST* 0.40


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)


Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)
Address: DEU IIBF Dokuzçeşmeler Kampüsü Buca
Tel: 90 232 4204180 / 2082
E-mail: t.ozuerman@deu.edu.tr
info: http://kisi.deu.edu.tr/t.ozuerman/

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 2 28
Preparing assignments 1 10 10
Preparing presentations 1 10 10
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 16 16
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 3 42
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 120

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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