Dokuz Eylül University Information Package / Courses Catalog

General Description

History

Human Rights Law Graduates Program with thesis is founded within the scope of department of public law in 2016. This program is intended for lawyers who comprehends the human rights which is foundation of law in theory and practice; internalize universal legal principles, have an expert level of evaluating and analyzing legal disputes. Following, researching, analyzing recent national and international developments and solving legal disputes and conflicts; analyzing human rights individually an das a whole, through this specialized education process, having an ability of legal reasoning by comparative and critical thinking and illuminating the society and individuals about legal rights within the perspective of human rights litigation.

Qualification Awarded

Master s Degree in Human Rights Law Non-Thesis

Level of Qualification

Second Cycle (Master's Degree)

Specific Admission Requirements

First Cycle Degree in the same or in related disciplines, Transcript, Acceptable score on ALES (Academic Personnel and Graduate Education Entrance Exam) or Equivalent GRE, GMAT score. Acceptable score on Language Proficiency Tests. Acceptable weighted score based on the first cycle cumulative grade point average (GPA) and ALES score. The exceptions to the requirements of ALES and Foreign Language Proficiency scores is announced by the Graduate School. However, ALES requirement is waived for the admissions to the second cycle graduate programs offered by the Conservatory and the departments of Fine Arts Faculty, where students are admitted only by the Artistic Aptitude Test as well as for the graduates of doctorate /arts proficiency/medical residency/ dental residency/ veterinary residency/ pharmaceutical residency programs. Final admission is based on the evaluation of the related academic unit committee. International student admission requirements are decided by the Graduate School Executive Committee.

Specific Arrangements for Recognition of Prior Learning (Formal, Non-Formal and Informal)

Transfer Students:
The transfer student candidates from Turkish or foreign universities are subject to the YOK Legislation "The transfer, double degree, minor degree and inter-institutional credit transfer" and to the evaluation conditions determined by Dokuz Eylul University Senate.
The transfer quotas are determined and announced by Turkish Higher Education Council (YOK). The evaluation of the candidates are done by the school evaluation commmisin and approved by the management

The Graduate Transfers:
The short cycle graduates are given the right to be admitted to the first cycle programs if they comply with the conditions set by the "The transfer of Short Cycle Program Graduates to First Cycle Programs" Legilation of Turkish Higher Education Council (YOK)
The universities inform YOK regarding the quotas and YOK announces the quotas and conditions in "Graduate Transfer Guide" and the placements are managed by YOK due to the results of nationwide graduate transfer exam.

According to the Regulations of Dokuz Eylül University for Graduate Schools, students are not connected to the right for internal transfer, previously taken courses at another graduate programme by another university with a successful grade may be
recognized by the related programmes after the letter of the students includes course contents and the transcript, and by the recommendation of the head of the departments and by the decision of the Board of Directors. The courses taken by the outgoing
Exchange students have the recognition at the school either as compulsory or elective.

Qualification Requirements and Regulations

1,5 years, 2 semesters per year, 16 weeks per semester, 90 ECTS in total.

Profile of the Programme

This program is intended for lawyers who have internalized the universal principles of law and have competency of legal legislation and the fundamental legal concepts and rules. Through a competency based education process, the national and international developments are analyzed legally and the ability of solving and identifying of legal disputes and conflicts is improved. The ability of legal reasoning is deepened by comparative and critical thinking ability. In addition to these objectives, illuminating the society and individuals about their legal rights. The language of education of the program is Turkish.

Key Learning Outcomes

1	Comprehends the fundemental principles of human rights law and human rights litigation in an advanced level.
2	Acquiring the skills of lifelong learning and having the competency of evaluating the private law knowledge critically, guiding the learning and performing advance level studies individually.
3	Analyzing and improving the idea of human rights on national and international level.
4	Having advanced knowledge on international protection of human rights.
5	Having the enough knowledge of methodology of law for solving the legal disputes and conflicts.
6	Analyzing the impacts of human rights law to Turkish law.
7	Having the advanced knowledge about fundamental rights, general principles of law and human rights.
8	Following the recent developments about different fields of human rights law and other related fields.
9	Having the ability of using software and hardware knowledge and the information and communication technologies at a required level.
10	Analyzing the intervention of satate s to fundemental rights and the exercise of this power in public law.
11	For the exercise of rights and freedoms that are enacted on national and international level, associating each one to another from political, social, cultural, administrative, environmental and legal points.

Occupational Profiles of Graduates with Examples

The Master's Degree enables graduates to practice their profession.

Access to Further Studies

Graduates may apply to the related employment positions in their area of specialization.

Course Structure Diagram with Credits

Semester	No	Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type of Course	T	P	L	ECTS
There is three semester in this programme and students who successfully complete courses which are obligatory and elective, required to execute a project and succeeded in the last semester.
T: Theoretical P: Practice L: Laboratory B: Spring Semester G: Fall Semester H: Full Year
1 .Semester:
G	1	INS 7111	METHODOLOGY OF LAW	COMPULSORY	3	0	0	9
G	0	-	SEMESTER ELECTIVE COURSE	ELECTIVE	-	-	-	21
TOTAL:								30

1 .Semester Elective:
Semester	No	Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type of Course	T	P	L	ECTS
G	1	İNS 7113	INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS	ELECTIVE	3	0	0	7
G	2	İNS 7117	ROLE OF CRIMINAL LAW IN PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS	ELECTIVE	3	0	0	7
G	3	İNS 7121	ECHR AND IT'S APPLICATION	ELECTIVE	3	0	0	7
G	4	İNS 7115	LIMITATION OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS VIA TAXATION	ELECTIVE	3	0	0	7
G	5	İNS 7119	UNIVERSALITY OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND CULTURAL RELATIVITY	ELECTIVE	3	0	0	7

2 .Semester:
Semester	No	Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type of Course	T	P	L	ECTS
B	1	SBE 7000	TECHNIQUES OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION ETHICS	COMPULSORY	3	0	0	5
B	2	İNS 7199	TERM PROJECT	COMPULSORY	0	1	0	5
B	0	-	ELECTIVE COURSE	ELECTIVE	-	-	-	20
TOTAL:								30

2 .Semester Elective:
Semester	No	Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type of Course	T	P	L	ECTS
B	1	İNS 7218	RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF FOREIGNERS IN TURKEY	ELECTIVE	3	0	0	4
B	2	İNS 7220	FAIR TRIAL IN CIVIL PROCEDURE	ELECTIVE	3	0	0	4
B	3	İNS 7222	HUMAN RIGHTS BOARDS AND INSTITUTIONS IN TURKEY THEIR STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION	ELECTIVE	3	0	0	4
B	4	İNS 7224	SOCIAL EQUALITY OF GENDERS AND PREVENTION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN	ELECTIVE	3	0	0	4
B	5	İNS 7226	PROHIBITION OF TORTURE WITHIN THE SCOPE OF ARICLE 3 OF ECHR	ELECTIVE	3	0	0	4
B	6	İNS 7238	PROTECTION OF PERSONAL DATAS AS A HUMAN RIGHT AND CRIMINA LAW	ELECTIVE	3	0	0	4
B	7	İNS 7230	INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW	ELECTIVE	3	0	0	4
B	8	İNS 7232	THE RULE OF LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS	ELECTIVE	3	0	0	4
B	9	İNS 7234	RIGHT TO A FAIR TRIAL WITHIN THE SCOPE OF ART 6 OF ECHR	ELECTIVE	3	0	0	4
B	10	İNS 7236	LEGAL ELEMENTS OF FREEDOM OF THOUGHT	ELECTIVE	3	0	0	4
B	11	İNS 7228	FREEDOM OF RELIGION AND BELIEF UNDER THE EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS	ELECTIVE	3	0	0	4

3 .Semester:
Semester	No	Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type of Course	T	P	L	ECTS
B	0	-	ELECTIVE COURSE	ELECTIVE	-	-	-	30
TOTAL:								30

3 .Semester Elective:
Semester	No	Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type of Course	T	P	L	ECTS

Examination Regulations, Assessment and Grading

Evaluation and assessment methods for each course is defined in the the Course Description Form which is prepared by related faculty member/s and included in the information package. Exams and course success notes is subject to the relevant articles of the DEU Regulation on Graduate Education.

Graduation Requirements

Second Cycle (Master's Degree) Non-Thesis Program is comprised of courses (at least 85 ECTS), Term Project (5 ECTS), in total 90 ECTS credits. Students must have minimum Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 2.50/4.00 and completed all the courses with at least CB/S/TP grades.

Mode of Study (Full-Time, Part-Time, E-Learning )

Full-time

Programme Director or Equivalent

Prof. Dr. Oğuz Sancakdar
0232 420 41 80
oguz.sancakdar@deu.edu.tr

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