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Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS INS 5003 INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 7

Offered By

Human Rights Law

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR TIJEN DÜNDAR SEZER

Offered to

Human Rights Law

Course Objective

The examination of substantial content of international instruments on human rights, their effects on internal law and the various control systems especially including the systems related to the classical rights and social rights.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To be able to realize the importance of the international development of human rights 2   To be able to evaluate the meaning of the international conventions about human rights 3   To be able to comprehend the supervisory mechansim of the human rights conventions and the importance of this in terms of Turkish Law 4   To be able to analyze the relationship between Turkish Law and International Human Rights Law

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description 1 Fundamental concepts about human rights, types of human rights 2 Historical development of human rights 3 The development of the international dimension of human rights 4 United Nations and Universal Declaration of Human Rights 5 Generally international human rights conventions 6 European Convention on Human Rights: Content, power of the European Court of Human Rights 7 European Convention on Human Rights: Admissibility Phase and Examination on the merits, impact of the Convention, Rights within the scope of the Convention and the borders of these rights 8 Exam 9 European Social Charter 10 UN Treaties : General review to the Treaties 11 Supervisory mechanisms of UN Treaties 12 ILO Treaties 13 American Convention on Human Rights and African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights 14 Effect of the international human rights conventions to the Turkish Law

Recomended or Required Reading

Gölcüklü F.-Gözübüyük Ş., Avrupa Insan Hakları Sözleşmesi ve Uygulaması, Ankara-2011 Gülmez M., Birleşmiş Sisteminde Insan Haklarının Korunması, Ankara -2004 Gemalmaz S., Uluslararası Insan Hakları hukukunun Genel Teorisine Giriş, Istanbul-2007

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecturs, discussions, seminar presentations

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)

tijensezer@hotmail.com

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours) Lectures 13 3 39 Preparing presentations 1 25 25 Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 2 26 Preparation for midterm exam 1 38 38 Preparation for final exam 1 43 43 Final 1 2 2 Midterm 1 2 2 TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 175

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LO PO.1 PO.2 PO.3 PO.4 PO.5 PO.6 PO.7 PO.8 PO.9 PO.10 PO.11 PO.12 LO.1 1 1 1 1 1 1 LO.2 1 1 1 1 1 LO.3 1 1 1 1 1 LO.4 1 1 1 1 1