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COURSE DESCRIPTION

HUMAN RIGHTS IN TERMS OF PHILOSOPHY/FEL 402

Course Title:	HUMAN RIGHTS IN TERMS OF PHILOSOPHY
Credits	2	ECTS	4
Semester	8	Compulsory/Elective	Compulsory

COURSE INFO

-- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION

Turkish

-- NAME OF LECTURER(S)

Prof. Dr. Nurten GÖKALP

-- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)

http://websitem.gazi.edu.tr/site/gokalp

-- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)

gokalp@gazi.edu.tr

-- LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT

Examine the basis of human rights.

-- MODE OF DELIVERY

The mode of delivery of this course is Face to face

-- PREREQUISITES AND CO-REQUISITES

There is no prerequisite or co-requisite for this course.

-- RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENTS

There is no recommended optional programme component for this course.

--COURSE CONTENT
1. Week	Human right concept
2. Week	Historical movement of right
3. Week	Plato
4. Week	Aristotle
5. Week	Cicero
6. Week	T. Aquinas
7. Week	Midterm
8. Week	T. Hobbes
9. Week	J. Locke
10. Week	Rousseau
11. Week	Paine
12. Week	International human rights
13. Week	Women Rights
14. Week	Women Rights
15. Week	Evaluation
16. Week	Final Exam

-- RECOMMENDED OR REQUIRED READING

1) Paine, Thomas, İnsan Hakları, Çev.: Mehmet Osman Dostel, İstanbul 1954 2) Akdemir, Süleyman, “Devletin Hukukilik Niteliği, İnsan Hakları Açısından Teorik Bir Yaklaşım”, Yeni Türkiye Dergisi, Yıl: 4, Sayı: 21, s. 511-525, Mayıs-Haziran ,1998 3) Akgül, Hikmet, “İnsan Hakları Üzerine Bir Düşünce Denemesi”, İslami Araştırmalar, Cilt: 11, Sayı: 3-4, 1998

-- PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS

Lecture, Question & Answer, Demonstration

-- WORK PLACEMENT(S)

Not Applicable

-- ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA

	Quantity	Percentage
Mid-terms	1	20
Assignment	1	10
Exercises	0	0
Projects	1	10
Practice	0	0
Quiz	0	0
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade		40
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade		60

-- WORKLOAD

Efficiency	Total Week Count	Weekly Duration (in hour)	Total Workload in Semester
Theoretical Study Hours of Course Per Week	14	2	28
Practising Hours of Course Per Week			0
Reading	4	8	32
Searching in Internet and Library	3	6	18
Designing and Applying Materials			0
Preparing Reports			0
Preparing Presentation	1	12	12
Presentation			0
Mid-Term and Studying for Mid-Term	1	9	9
Final and Studying for Final	1	10	10
Other			0
TOTAL WORKLOAD:			109
TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25:			4.36
ECTS:			4

-- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM

NO	PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES	1	2	3	4	5
1	To obtain the ability of understanding and using the basic concepts of the discipline of philosophy.					X
2	To be a person who criticizes, investigates and makes true evaluations, by obtaining a philosophical look upon the values.					X
3	To obtain the ability of understanding and evaluating the philosophical problems by using the basic concepts.				X
4	To be a sensible person to the humane, social, cultural, moral and political problems in our age and to produce solutions to these problems in a philosophical manner.				X
5	To improve the methods of text analysing, interpretation, evaluation and critique which bring in skills for text reading and writing concerning the comprehension and solution of philosophical problems.			X
6	To use the correct forms of thinking and obtain intellectual accoutrements, by developing a philosophical look upon knowledge, science, art and being. by making the symbolic and abstract thinking a habit.			X
7	To obtain a consciousness regarding the preservation of the human rights, history and ethics by seeing the development of the thought of the human rights with a philosophical look upon human.	X
8	To obtain a power of reasoning creativly and coherently and an ability to look from different perspectives at the events			X
9	by making the symbolic and abstract thinking a habit.		X
10	To be able to realize the relations of philosophical problems with contemporary problems.	X
11	To be able to relate the problems of different disciplines.		X
12	To think analytically.				X
13	To compare the relationship between opposing views.				X
14	To learn a foreign language at a basic level.
15	To be able to use communication Technologies at a basic level.

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