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Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS INS 7303 UNIVERSALITY OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND CULTURAL RELATIVITY ELECTIVE 2 0 0 5

Offered By

Human Rights Law Non-Thesis

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASISTANT PROFESSOR SERKAN EKIZ

Offered to

Human Rights Law Non-Thesis

Course Objective

The aim of the course is to examine the validity of universiality principle of human rights inpractice and whether the recent theoretical explanations for the fundamentals of human rights give a satisfactory answer to the questions rised by the Non-western societies. After that examination, students will be encoureged to find an answer to the question whether a new theoretical basis is needed in order to overcome those non western oppositions.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Ability to explain the meaning of universality principle of human rights 2   Gain knowledge about the drafting process of international human rights documents. 3   Ability to explain the meaning of cultural relativity as a legal concept. 4   To get to know about the theoretical basis of universality principle in recent human rights doctrine. 5   Gain knowledge about the recent developments in human rights doctrine on finding a new theoretical basis in order to over come the non western opposition towards human rights.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description 1 Historical and Theoretical basis of human rights 2 Social and political developments as the basis of human rights doctrine 3 Natural Law and Human rights in 17.th and 18th century 4 Human Rights in Practice: national and international human rights documents. 5 Theoretical basis for the internationalisation of human rights 6 Natural Law theory today and human rights 7 Positive law theory and Human rights Critics of Natural and positive law theories 8 Midterm Exam 9 Globalisation and universalisation of human rights 10 Neo emperialism and universalisation of human rights 11 What does Cultural relativism mean in legal sense 12 Historical and theoretical basis of cultural relativist claims Ability of recent human rights doctrine in dealing with cultural relativist claims 13 Critics on recent theorical basis of human rights doctrine 14 A search for a new theorical basis for realisation of universal human rights in practice Necessity of a new theoritical basis for universalisation of Human rights.

Recomended or Required Reading

Main Source: General books about human rights

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

lecturing

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 * 0.25 + STT * 0.25 + FIN* 0.50 5 RST RESIT 6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE* 0.25 + STT * 0.25 + RST* 0.50

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 13 2 26 Preparation for midterm exam 1 20 20 Preparation for final exam 1 30 30 Preparing presentations 1 30 30 Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 1 13 Midterm 1 2 2 Final 1 2 2 TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 123

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LO PO.1 PO.2 PO.3 PO.4 PO.5 PO.6 PO.7 PO.8 PO.9 PO.10 PO.11 LO.1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 LO.2 1 1 1 1 1 1 LO.3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 LO.4 1 1 1 1 1 1 LO.5 1 1 1 1 1 1 1