COURSE UNIT TITLE

: CONSTITUTION MAKING PROCESSES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
KMH 7021 CONSTITUTION MAKING PROCESSES ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Public Law (Non-Thesis-Evening)

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ŞAFAK EVRAN TOPUZKANAMIŞ

Offered to

Public Law (Non-Thesis-Evening)

Course Objective

To interpret the process of establishing a constitution within the scope of cosntitutional law.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To be able to explain the concepts of primary constituent power and derived constituent power
2   To be able to identify the borders primary constituent power
3   To be able to review concepts of primary and derived constituent powers with regards to
4   To be able to exposure methods of establishing a constitution in Türkiye
5   To be able to debate on current developments about establishing a constitution
6   To be able to submit proposals about establishing a constitution

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 General introduction, introducing of the issue and explaining the lesson plan
2 Primary constituent power
3 Borders of primary constituent power
4 Occurrence of necessity of a new constitution
5 Derived constituent power
6 Comparation of primary and derived constituent power
7 Presentations
8 Midterm exam
9 Process and methods of establishing a constitution in Türkiye
10 Methods of establishing a constitution in comparative constituional law
11 Constituional design
12 Proposals and critisims about methods of establishing a constitution
13 Presentations
14 General consideration

Recomended or Required Reading

Ergun Özbudun, Demokrasiye Geçiş Sürecinde Anayasa Yapımı, Bilgi Yayınevi, Ankara 1993.
Kemal Gözler, Kurucu Iktidar, Ekin Kitabevi Yayınları, Bursa 1998.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, presentations of seminar, debate

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


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)

safakevran@yahoo.com

Office Hours

Monday 14:00-16:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 2 26
Preparation for midterm exam 1 36 36
Preparation for final exam 1 35 35
Preparing presentations 1 20 20
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 160

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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