COURSE UNIT TITLE

: COUNSELINGFORDISABLED PEOPLE/ DISADVANTAGEOUSGROUPS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
IKD 7045 COUNSELINGFORDISABLED PEOPLE/ DISADVANTAGEOUSGROUPS ELECTIVE 2 0 0 5

Offered By

Employment and Career Consultancy Non-thesis (evening)

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR ÖZLEM ÇAKIR

Offered to

Employment and Career Consultancy Non-thesis (evening)

Course Objective

Intended for disabled people, women and the elderly people who is counted for disadvantaged groups in working life, developing job search skills, displaying solutions of problem encountered and to teach to become conscious of the protection of social rights.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To promote disadvantaged groups in working life
2   To identify the problems of disadvantaged groups in working life.
3   To determine mechanisms that will help them the problems faced by disadvantaged
4   To improve job search skills for disadvantaged groups.
5   To promote institutions and mechanisms for disadvantaged groups.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The disadvantage groups in working life
2 Consultancy services to disadvantaged groups and content
3 Consultation process for the disadvantaged groups.
4 Attitudes and attitude change for disadvantaged groups.
5 Employment issues with Disabilities
6 Institutional arrangements for disabled
7 Legal arrangements for disabled
8 Midterm exam
9 Employment issues for ex-convicts
10 Institutional and legal arrangements for ex-convicts
11 Young unemployed, long-term unemployed and the main problems related to employment
12 Institutional and legal arrangements for the young unemployed, long-term unemployed
13 Women in working life and employment issues
14 Institutional and legal arrangements for women in working life
15 Elders and retirement counseling

Recomended or Required Reading

Main Source:
Hacettepe Üniversitesi Nüfus Araştırmaları Enstitüsü. 2003. Türkiye Demografi ve Sağlık
Araştırması 2003, Ankara.
Subsidiary sources:
Taşçı, Mehmet, ve Aysıt Tansel. YouthUnemploymentDurations in Türkiye (Türkiye de
Gençlerin Işsiz Kalma Süreleri). METU Studies in Development (ODTÜ Kalkınma
Araştırmaları).
32 (2): 517-545.
Tufan, Ismail, ve Özgür Arun. 2006. Türkiye Özürlüler Araştırması 2002: Ileri Analiz
Raporu .
TÜBITAK ve DPT. Ankara.
Tunalı, Insan. 1996. Labour Market Implications of theDemographicWindow of
Opportunity
(Demografik Fırsat Penceresinin Iş Gücü Piyasasındaki Sonuçları). Forum. Aralık 1996.
TÜBITAK. 2003. Vizyon 2023: Eğitim Ara Dönem Raporu . Ankara.
Özyürek, M. (2000). Tutum ve Engellilere Yönelik Tutumların Değiştirilmesi. Ankara:
Karatepe Yayınları.
Yaşlanma 2002, Uluslararası Eylem Planı, 12 Nisan 2002,
http://www.gebam.hacettepe.edu.tr/eylem.pdf.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

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

All learning outcomes are measured by midterm and final exams .
Job search skills development is measured by the performance of the project and presentation.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

0.232.3010289 ozlem.cakir@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 2 28
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 3 42
Preparation for midterm exam 1 5 5
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Preparing assignments 1 20 20
Preparing presentations 1 8 8
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 117

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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