COURSE UNIT TITLE

: HUMAN RIGHTS IN TURKEY

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
KMH 5092 HUMAN RIGHTS IN TURKEY ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Public Law

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR SESIM SOYER GÜLEÇ

Offered to

Public Law

Course Objective

The purpose of this lecture is, to analyze the term human rights with its domestic and international aspects.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Being able to know the development of the human rights
2   Being able to dominate the context of the international documents on human rights
3   Being able to idert the position of the human rights in the domestic law
4   Being able to know about the rights and the freedoms related to the human rights
5   Being able to know about the effect of human rights to the legislations

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to the human rights
2 Historical backround of the human rights
3 International documents on human rights
4 The content of the International documents on human rights
5 Fundemantal rights in the European Convention on Human Rights
6 The personel rights in the European Convention on Human Rights
7 The effects of the European Convention on Human Rights to the domestic law
8 Midterm exam
9 The political rights in the European Convention on Human Rights
10 The social rights in the European Convention on Human Rights
11 Right to Life (Art.2 of ECHR)
12 Prohibition of Torture (Art. 3 of ECHR)
13 Right to liberty and security (Art. 5 of ECHR)
14 Right to private life (Art. 8 of ECHR)

Recomended or Required Reading

www.echr.coe.int

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

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


*** 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)

sesim.soyer@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparation for midterm exam 1 20 20
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 2 26
Preparation for final exam 1 30 30
Preparing assignments 1 31 31
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 150

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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