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 2012. According to the article 20 of D.E.U Regulations of Postgraduate Education the object of Graduates Program with thesis is gaining deep knowledge on vocational issues and practising of existing knowledge. In this direction, the object of program is providing specialization of students who are graduated from law faculty.
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 (MA)

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)

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

2 years, 2 semesters per year, 16 weeks per semester, 120 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	Understanding the human rights texts in a foreign language.
4	Analyzing and improving the idea of human rights on national and international level.
5	Having advanced knowledge on international protection of human rights.
6	Having the enough knowledge of methodology of law for solving the legal disputes and conflicts.
7	Analyzing the impacts of human rights law to Turkish law.
8	Having the advanced knowledge about fundamental rights, general principles of law and human rights.
9	Following the recent developments about different fields of human rights law and other related fields
10	Having the ability of using software and hardware knowledge and the information and communication technologies at a required level.
11	Analyzing the intervention of satate s to fundemental rights and the exercise of this power in public law.
12	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 related master's degree enables the holder to exercise the profession.

Access to Further Studies

May apply to third cycle programmes.

Course Structure Diagram with Credits

Semester	No	Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type of Course	T	P	L	ECTS
Human Rights Law Postgraduate Programme with thesis obligates 4 must (one of them and in the first semester, three of them in the second semester ) 4 elective (three of them in the first semester, one of them in the second period ) courses. There are 16 elective courses for two semesters. All elective courses are offered by the Department of EU Studies. There is no pool of must or selective courses offered by the University. There are no prerequisite courses. All the courses are based on semester credit system.
T: Theoretical P: Practice L: Laboratory B: Spring Semester G: Fall Semester H: Full Year
1 .Semester:
G	1	İNS 5019	METHODOLOGY OF LAW	COMPULSORY	3	0	0	9
G	0	-	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 5003	INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS	ELECTIVE	3	0	0	7
G	2	İNS 5007	RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF FOREIGNERS IN TüRKIYE	ELECTIVE	3	0	0	7
G	3	İNS 5009	HUMAN RIGHTS BOARDS AND INSTITUTIONS IN TüRKIYE: THEIR STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION	ELECTIVE	3	0	0	7
G	4	İNS 5013	PROHIBITION OF TORTURE IN THE CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS	ELECTIVE	3	0	0	7
G	5	İNS 5027	NATIONAL STATUS AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN COMPARATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW	ELECTIVE	3	0	0	7
G	6	İNS 5021	THE RULE OF LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS	ELECTIVE	3	0	0	7
G	7	INS 5023	EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND ITS APPLICATıON	ELECTIVE	3	0	0	7
G	8	İNS 5025	THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW AND REFUGEE LAW	ELECTIVE	3	0	0	7
G	9	İNS 5017	SYSTEM AND OPERATION OF AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS BY MEANS OF COURTS	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 5000	TECHNIQUES OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION ETHICS	COMPULSORY	3	0	0	5
B	2	İNS 5196	SEMINAR	COMPULSORY	0	2	0	3
B	3	İNS 5198	FIELD STUDY	COMPULSORY	2	0	0	4
B	0	-	ELECTIVE COURSE	ELECTIVE	-	-	-	18
TOTAL:								30

2 .Semester Elective:
Semester	No	Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type of Course	T	P	L	ECTS
B	1	İNS 5046	FAIR TRIAL IN CIVIL PROCEDURE LAW	ELECTIVE	3	0	0	6
B	2	İNS 5048	SOCIAL GENDER EQUALITY AND PREVENTION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN	ELECTIVE	3	0	0	6
B	3	İNS 5050	RIGHT TO A FAIR TRIAL EUROPEAN IN THE CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS	ELECTIVE	3	0	0	6
B	4	İNS 5054	PROTECTION OF PERSONAL DATAS AS A HUMAN RIGHT AND CRIMINAL LAW	ELECTIVE	3	0	0	6
B	5	İNS 5058	SYSTEM AND OPERATION OF AFRICAN COURT ON HUMAN AND PEOPLE?S RIGHTS IN PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS BY MEANS OF COURTS	ELECTIVE	3	0	0	6
B	6	İNS 5070	SOCIO-LEGAL RESEARCH METHODS	ELECTIVE	3	0	0	6
B	7	İNS 5062	INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION OF REFUGUEES	ELECTIVE	3	0	0	6
B	8	İNS 5064	INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW	ELECTIVE	3	0	0	6
B	9	İNS 5066	HUMAN RIGHTS IN COMPARATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW	ELECTIVE	3	0	0	6
B	10	İNS 5068	LIMITATION OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS VIA TAXATION	ELECTIVE	3	0	0	6
B	11	İNS 5060	THE FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE AND RELIGION IN THE EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS	ELECTIVE	3	0	0	6

3.Semester:
Semester	No	Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type of Course	T	P	L	ECTS
G	1	İNS 5099	THESIS	COMPULSORY	0	0	0	30
TOTAL:								30

4.Semester:
Semester	No	Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type of Course	T	P	L	ECTS
B	1	İNS 5099	THESIS	COMPULSORY	0	0	0	30
TOTAL:								30

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) Program with thesis is comprised of courses (at least 55 ECTS), a seminar (2 ECTS) and field study (3 ECTS) and thesis (60 ECTS), in total 120 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
Phone: (90) (232) 420 41 80
e-mail: oguz.sancakdar@deu.edu.tr

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