COURSE UNIT TITLE

: CONSTITUTIONAL LAW

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ELECTIVE

Offered By

Law

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OĞUZ ŞIMŞEK

Offered to

Law

Course Objective

1- To have the fundamental concepts of constitutional law (the resources of constitutional law, the analysis of political power and state in terms of constitutional law ascertained.
2- To analyze the fundamental establishment of the state (legislation, execution, legislation) with in the frame of scientific methodology of constitutional law,
3- To analyze the fundamental rights and freedoms in a context of relations of an individual and a state constitutional law

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To have a competence of evaluating fundamental entities and concepts of constitutional law.
2   To be able to analyze the issues of constitutional law with scientific methods.
3   To be able to express the relations of constitutional law with other branches of law.
4   To be able to analyze the concepts and institutions of rule of law, social state, democracy, human rights, fundamental rights and freedoms in constitutional law with in the frame of establishment of a state and the relation between a state and an individual
5   To be able to evaluate academic current developments in the light of constitutional law

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction: Fundamental concepts
2 The resources of constitutional law
3 Political power in the light of constitutional law
4 State in the light of constitutional law
5 Concept and types of constitution, process of creating a constitution and consitutional change
6 Constituent power in constitutional law
7 Judicial review of laws with in the frame of constitutional law
8 The types of governing according to utility of sovereignty
9 Elections and electoral systems
10 Political parties with in the frame of constitutional law
11 Separation of powers and democratic systems of government-Fundamental information
12 Classification of government systems and their properties
13 1st Midterm Exam
14 1st Midterm Exam
15 Ottoman-Turkish constitutional evolvement
16 Constitutional evolvement of Republic Period (Until Constitution of 1982)
17 Essential features of the state (rule of law, secular state, respect to human rights) in the Constitution of 1982
18 Essential features of the state (democratic state, social state, loyalty to nationalism of Ataturk)
19 Fundamental rights and freedoms
20 Basic information about legislative branch.
21 Formation and composition of legislative branch
22 Legislative branch-legislative transaction
23 2nd Midterm Exam
24 2nd Midterm Exam
25 Executive branch, fundamental information, formation
26 Executive branch, composition-duties and authorities, responsibility- and state of emergency
27 Judicial branch and constitutional jurisdiction-fundamental information
28 Judicial branch and constitutional jurisdiction-formation, composition and authorities of constitutional court
29 Judicial branch and constitutional jurisdiction- appeal to Constitutional Court, the legal properties of the decisions of Constitutional Court-Amendment of the constitution and general assessment

Recomended or Required Reading

Main Literature: Fundamental resources about the general principles of constitutional law and Turkish Constitutional law. K. Gözler Anayasa Hukuku Genel Esaslar; K. Gözler Türk Anayasa Hukuku; Z. Gören Anayasa Hukuku; F. Demir Anayasa Hukuku etc.
Secondary Literature: Monographies, articles, judicial decisions, etc.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Preparing presentations, review of the judicial decisions, practical work, etc.

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 roundVZ1 * 0.50 + VZ2 * 0.50,0
4 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
5 FIN FINAL EXAM
6 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE roundKPU + FN,0
7 RST RESIT
8 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) roundKPU + BUT,0


*** 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)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 25 4 100
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 25 2 50
Preparation for midterm exam 2 15 30
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 2 1 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 204

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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