COURSE UNIT TITLE

: KNOWLEDGE OF CONSUMER LAW

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
AMY 2045 KNOWLEDGE OF CONSUMER LAW ELECTIVE 2 0 0 5

Offered By

Vocational School of Justice

Level of Course Unit

Short Cycle Programmes (Associate's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR SERKAN AYAN

Offered to

Vocational School of Justice

Course Objective

The purpuse of this lecture is, to teach students fundamental principles aimed at protection of consumer, basic institutions and notions relating to consumer law and make them have knowledge of measures aimed to protection of consumer and legal remedies.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To be able to clarify fundamental principles aimed at protection of consumer.
2   To be able to clarify basic notions and institutions relating to consumer law.
3   To be able to apprehend measures aimed at protection of consumer.
4   To be able to determine basic problems originating from consumer law.
5   To be able to acquire skill of solving problems originating from consumer law.
6   To be able to apprehend legal remedies in consumer law.
7   To be able to apprehend features of proceedings and judgment process at consumer courts.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction, historical development, association with other law branches
2 The fundamental notions of consumer law: Consumer, treatment of consumer, dealer-supplier, goods, services etc.
3 Basic principles of consumer law
4 Unfair terms in consumer law
5 Supervision of unfair terms
6 Defective good, liability originating from defective good elective rights of consumer
7 Defective service, liability originating from defective service, elective rights of consumer
8 Consumer contracts: Installment selling, consumer loans, housing finance, prepaid housing selling
9 Contracts signed outside workplace, distance contracts
10 contracts relating to financial services, time share vacation contracts and long duration vacation service contracts, package tour contracts, subscription contracts
11 - Enlightenment of consumer, protection of consumer benefits - Commercial advertisement and unfair commercial practices
12 Midterm exam
13 Midterm exam
14 -Consumer organizations -Administrative supervisions and sanctions
15 Legal remedies: Arbitration committee for consumer problems, Consumer courts

Recomended or Required Reading

- Aydoğdu, Murat: Tüketici Hukuku Dersleri, 2015.
- Aydoğdu, Murat: Tüketici Kılavuzu-Hukuk Rehberi, 2014.
- Aslan, Yılmaz: Tüketici Hukuku Dersleri, 2014.
- Özel, Çağlar: Tüketicinin Korunması Hukuku, 2014.
- Havutçu, Ayşe: Açık Içerik denetimi Yoluyla Tüketicinin Genel Işlem Şartlarına Karşı Korunması, Izmir 2003.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. Lectures
2. Practical work

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE roundKPU + FN,0
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) roundKPU + BUT,0


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

http://amyo.deu.edu.tr/esaslar.html

Assessment Criteria

1.Knowledges recieved relating to basic principles aimed at protection of consumer.
2. Knowledges recieved relating to fundamental notions and institutons of consumer law.
3. Knowledges recieved relating to measures aimed at protection of consumer.
4. To be able to implement recieved knowledges on legal problems originating from consumer law
5. Knowledges recieved relating to legal remedies in consumer law.
6. Knowledges recieved relating to judgement at consumer courts.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

e-mail: ayse.fsimsek@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparation for final exam 1 30 30
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 3 39
Preparation for midterm exam 1 25 25
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 123

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10
LO.11
LO.21
LO.3
LO.4
LO.5
LO.61
LO.71

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