COURSE UNIT TITLE

: UNIVERSALITY OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND CULTURAL RELATIVITY

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
INS 7119 UNIVERSALITY OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND CULTURAL RELATIVITY ELECTIVE 3 0 0 7

Offered By

Human Rights Law (Non-Thesis-Evening)

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR SERKAN EKIZ

Offered to

Course Objective

The aim of course is put forth to current validity and enforceability of the principle of the universality of human rights and objections for this principle the scope of non-Western societies emerging cultural relativism and responses to these objections for adequacy of current theoretical approach of human rights. In the course after making this determination, response to objections for cultural relativity in the human rights doctrine and enabling to new theoretical bases for the applicability of principle of the universality of human rights and discuss to the necessity of this search.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Being able to comprehend, the principle of the universality of human rights and its scope
2   Being able to learned, the scope of international human rights documents and disagree-ments for universality principle on the drafting.
3   Being able to perceive, the meaning of cultural relativism and its scope.
4   Being able to interpret, theoretical basis of the principle of universality in human rights doctrine and adequacy of these theoretical approaches to the responding of cultural relativism objections.
5   Being able to executed, new theoretical basis seeking for responding of cultural relativism objections and debates for necessity of this type seeking.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The historical and theoretical foundations of human rights
2 The social and political developments that give rise to the doctrine of human rights
3 Natural Law in the 17th and 18th century and Human Rights
4 Transition to the application of human rights; national and international human rights documents
5 The theoretical foundations of international dimension of human rights.
6 Natural Law Doctrine and Human Rights
7 Positive Law Doctrine and Human Rights, The Critics of Natural Law and Positive Law Doctrine
8 Mid-term exam
9 The Phenomenon of Globalization and Universality of Human Rights
10 Universality of Human Rights and New-Colonialism
11 The Phenomenon of Cultural Relativism, meaning and scope
12 The Historical and Theoretical Foundations of Cultural Relativism Objections
13 Adequacy of Human Rights Doctrine responding for Cul-tural Relativism Objections
14 The Critics for Theoretical Foundations of Human Rigts Doctrine

Recomended or Required Reading

1- Andreas Follesdal; Human Rights and Relativism, Real World Justice: Grounds, Principles, Human Rights, and Social Institutions, pp.265-283.
2- John Ifediora; Universal Human Rights and Cultural Relativism: A Marriage of Inconvenience: Policy Perspective, Vol.3, Isuue:1 (2004).
3- Richard Mullender (2003) Human Rights: Universalism and Cultural Relativism, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 6:3, 70-103.
4-Engle, Karen; From Skepticism to Embrace: Human Rights and the American Anthropological Association from 1947 1999:
Human Rights Quarterly, Volume 23, Number 3, August 2001, pp. 536-559.
5- Donnelly, Jack; The Relative Universality of Human Rights: Human Rights Quarterly, Volume 29, Number 2, May 2007, pp.
281-306.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecturing, seminar presentations, court decision reviews.

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 * 0.20 + FIN* 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.20 + RST* 0.50


*** 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 13 2 26
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 2 26
Preparation for midterm exam 1 30 30
Preparation for final exam 1 35 35
Preparing assignments 1 30 30
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 150

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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