COURSE UNIT TITLE

: EU SOCIAL POLICY

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
AVB 5008 EU SOCIAL POLICY COMPULSORY 3 0 0 6

Offered By

European Union

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR ZEKI ERDUT

Offered to

European Union

Course Objective

The main objective of this course is to understand EU s social policy, European Social Model, and the connections between Union s and Member States social policies and the effects of EU s social policy on Turkey as a candidate country.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To understand authority, responsibility and function of coordinating EU s social policy in member states
2   To understand the implementations and policies regarding unemployement and employement in EU, in the context of EU s social policies
3   To be able to analyse the effects of free movement of labour to EU socially and economically
4   To compare the change of social policies in member states and Turkey in respect to space and time
5   To evaluate the social and economical crisis and transformations in global scale and in EU, and its effects on Turkey as a candidate country

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Economic Integration, EU and Turkey
2 Social Rules of Economic Integration
3 Free Movement and Free Movement of Turkish Workers
4 Unemployement, Employement and Employment Policy
5 European Social Fund
6 Protection of Fundamental Social Rights
7 Income Distribution and Turkey
8 Social Security and Turkey
9 Social Dialogue and Turkey
10 Social Harmonization and Turkey
11 Obligation to Inform Employees, Solidarity and Turkey
12 Equality of Women and Men and Turkey
13 Customs Union s Social Effects
14 General Evaluation

Recomended or Required Reading

ADAMCZYK, Slawomir; L impact et l application de la directive 2002/14/CE en Pologne, Impact de la directive information-consultation sur le dialogue social dans les Etats membres: résultats et perpectives. Europe et Société. No. 75-76, novembre 2009-avril 2010, p. 145-148.
ALBER, Jens; What the European and American welfare states have in common and where they differ: facts and fiction in comparisons of the European Social Model and the United States, Journal of European Social Policy. Vol. 20, No.2, 2010, p. 102 125.
ALMOND, Phil; EDWARDS, Tony; CLARK, Ian; Multinationals and changing national business systems in Europe: towards the 'shareholder value' model Industrial Relations Journal, Vol. 34, Issue 5, 2003, s. 430 445.
ALSASUA, Jesús, Javier Bilbao-Ubillos, Jon Olaskoaga; The EU integration process and the convergence of social protection benefits at national level, International Journal of Social Welfare. No. 16, 2007, p. 297-306.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, weekly readings, class discussions, student assignments and presentations

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

To be announced.

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1. Students are obligated to participate 70% of the lectures

2. All kinds of palagiarism and attept of palagiarism shall be concluded by disciplinary punishment

3. Students supposed to read the materials before lecture and participate the classroom discussions

4. Students are expected to make presentations about the subjects given by the lecturer.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Prof. Dr. Zeki ERDUT
zeki.erdut@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Thursday: 13.30-15.30

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 4 56
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 14 14
Preparing assignments 1 8 8
Preparing presentations 1 6 6
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 140

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9
LO.155
LO.255
LO.35555
LO.455555
LO.5555555

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