ECTS - Philosophy and Sociology of Law
Philosophy and Sociology of Law (LAW436) Course Detail
| Course Name | Course Code | Season | Lecture Hours | Application Hours | Lab Hours | Credit | ECTS |
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| Philosophy and Sociology of Law | LAW436 | 8. Semester | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 6 |
| Pre-requisite Course(s) |
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| N/A |
| Course Language | Turkish |
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| Course Type | Compulsory Departmental Courses |
| Course Level | Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle) |
| Mode of Delivery | Face To Face |
| Learning and Teaching Strategies | Lecture, Discussion, Question and Answer. |
| Course Lecturer(s) |
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| Course Objectives | A student should be a person who can design law, not only a practicing it. The students will have a base to understand and discuss the actual and historical juridical and political problems and will reinforce their senses of justice, will learn that law is not only composed of rules, but also whole ideological and social structure. |
| Course Learning Outcomes |
The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Content | The foundations of society, social inequality, social institutions, social change; natural law theory, the formal understanding of law: legal positivism. |
Weekly Subjects and Releated Preparation Studies
| Week | Subjects | Preparation |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fundamental Schools of philosophy of law | Hukuk Kuramını Anlamak/ Raymond Wacks |
| 2 | Fundamental Schools of philosophy of law | Hukuk Kuramını Anlamak/ Raymond Wacks |
| 3 | İdealism and materialism | Hukuk Kuramını Anlamak/ Raymond Wacks |
| 4 | The relationship between law and other social norms | Hukuk Kuramını Anlamak/ Raymond Wacks |
| 5 | Natural Law and Natural Rights | Hukuk Kuramını Anlamak/ Raymond Wacks |
| 6 | Short History of Natural law | Hukuk Kuramını Anlamak/ Raymond Wacks |
| 7 | Freedom as a criterion of legitimacy in a legal systems | Hukuk Kuramını Anlamak/ Raymond Wacks |
| 8 | Midterm | |
| 9 | Justice and Fairness, different kinds of justice | Hukuk Kuramını Anlamak/ Raymond Wacks |
| 10 | Justice and Fairness, different kinds of justice | Hukuk Kuramını Anlamak/ Raymond Wacks |
| 11 | Sociology and Sociology of Law Law as a Social Control | Hukuk Kuramını Anlamak/ Raymond Wacks |
| 12 | Free Research School, Historical School, LegalRealism,Sociological Jurisprudence | Hukuk Kuramını Anlamak/ Raymond Wacks |
| 13 | History from Sociology to Law Durkheim, Weber vand Marx | Hukuk Kuramını Anlamak/ Raymond Wacks |
| 14 | Positive Law as a Sociological reality | Hukuk Kuramını Anlamak/ Raymond Wacks |
| 15 | Final Exam |
Sources
| Course Book | 1. Hukuk Kuramını Anlamak/ Raymond Wacks |
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| 2. Hukuk Felsefesi / Adnan Güriz | |
| 3. Hukuk Felsefesi / Yasemin Işıktaç | |
| 6. Hukuk Sosyolojisi / Yasemin Işıktaç - Umut Koloş | |
| 7. Hukuk Sosyolojisi'ne Giriş / Mehmet Tevfik Özcan | |
| 8. Hukuk Sosyolojisi Yazıları / Mehmet Yüksel | |
| 15. Öktem, Niyazi/Türkbağ, Ahmet Ulvi /Felsefe, Sosyoloji, Hukuk ve Devlet | |
| Other Sources | 4. Saf Hukuk Kuramı/ Hans Kelsen |
| 5. Adalet, Yapılması Gereken Doğru Şey Nedir? / Michael J. Sandel | |
| 9. Sosyoloji / Anthony Giddens | |
| 10. Protestan Ahlakı ve Kapitalizmin Ruhu / Max Weber | |
| 11. Bürokrasi ve Otorite / Max Weber | |
| 12. Sosyoloji / Richard T. Schaefer | |
| 13. Komünist Partisi Manifestosu / Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx | |
| 14. Toplumsal İşbölümü / Emile Durkheim |
Evaluation System
| Requirements | Number | Percentage of Grade |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance/Participation | - | - |
| Laboratory | - | - |
| Application | - | - |
| Field Work | - | - |
| Special Course Internship | - | - |
| Quizzes/Studio Critics | - | - |
| Homework Assignments | - | - |
| Presentation | - | - |
| Project | - | - |
| Report | - | - |
| Seminar | - | - |
| Midterms Exams/Midterms Jury | 1 | 30 |
| Final Exam/Final Jury | 1 | 70 |
| Toplam | 2 | 100 |
| Percentage of Semester Work | |
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| Percentage of Final Work | 100 |
| Total | 100 |
Course Category
| Core Courses | |
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| Major Area Courses | X |
| Supportive Courses | |
| Media and Managment Skills Courses | |
| Transferable Skill Courses |
The Relation Between Course Learning Competencies and Program Qualifications
| # | Program Qualifications / Competencies | Level of Contribution | ||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 1 | Skills to understand, compare and paraphrase the basic concepts of law as a jurist following common principles of law. | X | ||||
| 2 | Skills to solve problems using a critical point of view when necessary , to determine and analyse the theoretical and implementation problems of law. | X | ||||
| 3 | Contribution to understanding, planning, exercising and coordinating the functionss of law, by explaining and practising. | X | ||||
| 4 | Skills to understand the strategic, tactical and practical sides of private and public law. | X | ||||
| 5 | Skills to understand the local, national, international, universal and supranational sides of private and public law. | X | ||||
| 6 | Skills to understand the modern methods and differences of law. | X | ||||
| 7 | Skills to participate in/inter disciplinary group works succesfully. | X | ||||
| 8 | Skills to adopt open minded behaviors in the way of learning and attempting. | X | ||||
| 9 | Skills to assimilate and carry the rules of ethics and profession within the framework of social responsibility | X | ||||
| 10 | Skills to use Turkish efficiently in writing and speaking, and have the communication talent that is required by a law related career. | X | ||||
| 11 | Skills to approach critically and creativly on the legal and social problems in terms of rule of law and ideal of justice. | X | ||||
| 12 | Skills to understand and practice the national and international sides of law through caselaw and judical implementations. | X | ||||
| 13 | Skills to prepare/present a written or oral academic study within the framework of acedemic ethic and rules. | X | ||||
| 14 | Skills to use vocational information technologies efficiently in solving legal problems. | X | ||||
| 15 | Skills to reinforce knowledge of foreign languages and command of legal terminolgy. | X | ||||
ECTS/Workload Table
| Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Total Workload |
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| Course Hours (Including Exam Week: 16 x Total Hours) | 16 | 4 | 64 |
| Laboratory | |||
| Application | |||
| Special Course Internship | |||
| Field Work | |||
| Study Hours Out of Class | 8 | 4 | 32 |
| Presentation/Seminar Prepration | |||
| Project | |||
| Report | |||
| Homework Assignments | |||
| Quizzes/Studio Critics | |||
| Prepration of Midterm Exams/Midterm Jury | 2 | 11 | 22 |
| Prepration of Final Exams/Final Jury | 4 | 8 | 32 |
| Total Workload | 150 | ||