Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University Course Catalogue

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FACULTY OF ECONOMICS & ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCES / KMY 332 - PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Code: KMY 332 Course Title: HUMAN RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS Theoretical+Practice: 3+0 ECTS: 4
Year/Semester of Study 3 / Spring Semester
Level of Course 1st Cycle Degree Programme
Type of Course Optional
Department PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
Pre-requisities and Co-requisites None
Mode of Delivery Face to Face
Teaching Period 14 Weeks
Name of Lecturer GÖRKEM BİRİNCİ (gorkem@nevsehir.edu.tr)
Name of Lecturer(s) GÖRKEM BİRİNCİ,
Language of Instruction Turkish
Work Placement(s) None
Objectives of the Course
To make participants gain a scientific perspective related to human rights and freedoms with awareness and sensitivity about realization processes' of them.

Learning Outcomes PO MME
The students who succeeded in this course:
LO-1 Can explain human rights and freedoms in a historical and theoritical context; can relate them in daily life. PO-4 Gain ability to adaptate oneself to technologic innovations and use the maximum level of information technologies in order to make managerial decision-making and implementation process more efficient in terms of time and resources;
PO-5 Have ability to collect data, analyze and interpret the results via utilizing accumulation of information and interdisciplinary point of view while identifying and solving existing public administration problems;
PO-7 Have a social behavior manner which consists of project preparation skill by taking active responsibility in individual and team work, self-confidence to express oneself easily in the face of community, motivation at high level;
Examination
LO-2 Can identify the effects of concepts used in human rights law on individuals and state. PO-1 Upon successful completion of the program students: Learn essential theoretical and empirical concepts of the discipline’s main branches, Political Science, Administration Science, Urbanization and Environmental Problems and Legal Sciences and gain a perspective which is appropriate for creating solutions in this scope;
PO-5 Have ability to collect data, analyze and interpret the results via utilizing accumulation of information and interdisciplinary point of view while identifying and solving existing public administration problems;
PO-7 Have a social behavior manner which consists of project preparation skill by taking active responsibility in individual and team work, self-confidence to express oneself easily in the face of community, motivation at high level;
Examination
LO-3 Can evaluate what the functions of human rights law in society are. PO-1 Upon successful completion of the program students: Learn essential theoretical and empirical concepts of the discipline’s main branches, Political Science, Administration Science, Urbanization and Environmental Problems and Legal Sciences and gain a perspective which is appropriate for creating solutions in this scope;
PO-5 Have ability to collect data, analyze and interpret the results via utilizing accumulation of information and interdisciplinary point of view while identifying and solving existing public administration problems;
PO-7 Have a social behavior manner which consists of project preparation skill by taking active responsibility in individual and team work, self-confidence to express oneself easily in the face of community, motivation at high level;
Examination
LO-4 Can use abstract concepts with their concrete contents. PO-1 Upon successful completion of the program students: Learn essential theoretical and empirical concepts of the discipline’s main branches, Political Science, Administration Science, Urbanization and Environmental Problems and Legal Sciences and gain a perspective which is appropriate for creating solutions in this scope;
PO-7 Have a social behavior manner which consists of project preparation skill by taking active responsibility in individual and team work, self-confidence to express oneself easily in the face of community, motivation at high level;
Examination
PO: Programme Outcomes
MME:Method of measurement & Evaluation

Course Contents
Historical development of human rights' codification and theoretical bases; human rights instruments and organisations; problems of applying human rights and freedoms.
Weekly Course Content
Week Subject Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
1 Scope, subjects, sources, method and requirements of the course. Lecturing
2 Discussion on following question: What is human? What are posibility conditions of human rights and freedoms? Lecturing
3 Basic concepts: Right, freedoom, democracy, constituonal state. Lecturing
4 Foundations of universal rights debate: Natural law. Lecturing
5 1776 American and 1789 French Declarations. Lecturing
6 A critical discussion and analyze of 1789 Rights of Man Declaration. Lecturing
7 Internationalization of universal rights in 20th century: Main lines of Leauge of Nations and United Nations systems. Lecturing
8 mid-term exam
9 Fundamental human rights instruments: UN The Universal Declaration of Human Rights Lecturing
10 Fundamental human rights instruments: UN 1966 Economic and Political Rights Agreement. Lecturing
11 Fundamental human rights instruments: European Convention on Human Rights Lecturing
12 International organisations: UN Human Rights Committee. Lecturing
13 International organisations: The European Court of Human Rights Lecturing
14 ECHR and Turkey: Instruments and procedures. Lecturing
15 ECHR and Turkey: Case samples. Lecturing
16 final exam
Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading
1 Donnelly, Jack (1995), Teoride ve Uygulamada Evrensel İnsan Hakları, (çev.) M. Erdoğan & L. Korkut, TDV, Ankara
2 Erdoğan, Mustafa (2003), Anayasal Demokrasi, Siyasal Kitabevi, Ankara
3 Dağı, İhsan ve Polat, Necati (2004), Herkes İçin Demokrasi ve İnsan Hakları, Liberte, Ankara
4 Kuçuradi, İoanna (1998) "İnsan Hakları Kavramları ve Sorunları", Meteksan, Ankara
5 Bozkurt, Enver (2006) "Uluslararası İnsan Hakları Hukuku", Asil Yayın: Ankara
Required Course instruments and materials
Specified books.

Assessment Methods
Type of Assessment Week Hours Weight(%)
mid-term exam 8 1 40
Other assessment methods
1.Oral Examination
2.Quiz
3.Laboratory exam
4.Presentation
5.Report
6.Workshop
7.Performance Project
8.Term Paper
9.Project
final exam 16 1 60

Student Work Load
Type of Work Weekly Hours Number of Weeks Work Load
Weekly Course Hours (Theoretical+Practice) 3 14 42
Outside Class
       a) Reading 2 14 28
       b) Search in internet/Library 2 14 28
       c) Performance Project 0
       d) Prepare a workshop/Presentation/Report 0
       e) Term paper/Project 0
Oral Examination 0
Quiz 0
Laboratory exam 0
Own study for mid-term exam 1 7 7
mid-term exam 1 1 1
Own study for final exam 1 15 15
final exam 1 1 1
0
0
Total work load; 122