COURSE UNIT TITLE

: BUILDING LAW

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ÖZH 5063 BUILDING LAW ELECTIVE 3 0 0 7

Offered By

Private Law

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR SERKAN AYAN

Offered to

Private Law

Course Objective

Study of the construction of the building contract executed by and between the building contractor and the landowner, rights and obligations of the contractor, rights and obligations of the landowner, termination of the building contract and legal consequences related to termination, legal relations between the architect, landowner and contractor, legal relations between the landowner and subcontractors, characteristics of building contracts for flats, legal obligations of those who participate in building work.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Ability to produce solutions for disputes arising from building contract.
2   Ability to evaluate any scientific studies, court decrees and legislation about building contracts.
3   Ability to determine the building contract's relationship with other branches of law.
4   Ability to generate justified and critical opinion in Building Law.
5   Ability to improve learning, learning skills and critical thinking capability in Building Law.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Concept and types of building contract
2 Parties to building contracts and their legal positions
3 Rights and obligations of the parties in building contracts
4 Price in building contracts
5 Delivery in building contracts
6 Responsibility for defects in building contracts
7 Analysis of an actual event
8 Mid-Term Exam
9 Rights arising from defects in building contracts
10 Legal status of third parties in building contracts
11 Conditions of default in building contracts
12 Rights arising from default in building contracts
13 Basic characteristics of building contracts for flats
14 Termination of building contract for flat Analysis of an actual event

Recomended or Required Reading

Seliçi, Özer: Inşaat Sözleşmesinde Müteahhidin Sorumluluğu, Ankara 1978.
Ayan, Serkan: Inşaat Sözleşmesinde Yüklenicinin Temerrüdü, Ankara 2008.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lectures, discussion of actual events, presentation

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

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

serkanayan@yahoo.com

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 34 34
Preparation for final exam 1 40 40
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 3 39
Preparing presentations 1 19 19
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 175

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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