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MEDICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES (TURKISH)
Associate TR-NQF-HE: Level 5 QF-EHEA: Short Cycle EQF-LLL: Level 5

Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Code Course Name Semester Theoretical Practical Credit ECTS
GEP1607 Ethics Fall 3 0 3 5
This catalog is for information purposes. Course status is determined by the relevant department at the beginning of semester.

Basic information

Language of instruction: Turkish
Type of course: GE-Elective
Course Level: Associate (Short Cycle)
Mode of Delivery: Face to face
Course Coordinator : Dr. BURCU ALARSLAN ULUDAŞ
Recommended Optional Program Components: None
Course Objectives: The aim of this course is to introduce students with some basic concepts and discussions of ethics to enable them to think critically and philosophically..

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
The student will be able to distinguish ethics by gaining insight into its basic concepts, questions and problems
The student will be able to analyze ethics by understanding the differences between it and other philosophical disciplines.
The student will be able to evaluate the problems of ethics
The student will be able to apply the methods and concepts of ethics to the contemporary moral problems.
The student will be able to comprehend the relationship between ethics and history of ethics

Course Content

To introduce basic concepts and problems of ethics; to gain insight to the history of ethics.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week Subject Related Preparation
1) Introduction
2) The Long search for the Origins of Ethics I- Plato, Aristotle Course notes
3) The Long search for the Origins of Ethics II- Thomas Hobbes, Jean Jacques Rousseau. Course notes
4) The Long search for the Origins of Ethics III Immanuel Kant, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Charles Darwin, Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud Course notes
5) The Role of Reason I David Hume, Immanuel Kant, G.W.F.Hegel, Course notes
6) The Role of Reason II Ludwig Wittgenstein, Jean-Paul Sartre, Thomas Nagel Course notes
7) Ultimate Good, M.K. Gandhi,, Aldous Huxley, Albert Camus Course notes
8) Natural Law, Natural Rights- The Theory Thomas Aquinas, John Locke, Robert Nozick, Course notes
9) Natural Law, Natural Rights-Criticism Blaise Pascal, Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, Course notes
10) Film Screening and Discussion Course notes
11) Consequentialism Jeremy Bentham, Henry Sidgwick, Course notes
12) Consequentialism Fyodor Dostoevsky, W.D.Ross, John Rawls, Bernard Williams, Course notes
13) Film Screening and Discussion Course notes

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks: Oxford Readers: Ethics, ed. by Peter Singer, Oxford University Press, 1994 They can also benefit from the available Turkish translations of the texts
References: A.Cevizci, Etiğe Giriş, Paradigma Yayınları, İstanbul, 2. Baskı, 2007.
Immanuel Kant, Ahlâk Metafiziğinin Temellendirilmesi (çev.: İ. Kuçuradi), TFK Yayınları, Ankara, 1995.
İoanna Kuçuradi, Etik, TFK Yayınları, Ankara, 1996
Aristoteles, Nikomakhos’a Etik, (çev. S. Babür), Ayraç Yayınevi, Ankara, 1998.
Harun Tepe, Etik ve Meslek Etikleri, Türkiye Felsefe Kurumu Yayınları, Ankara, 2000.

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements Number of Activities Level of Contribution
Attendance 14 % 10
Homework Assignments 2 % 20
Midterms 1 % 30
Final 1 % 40
Total % 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK % 60
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK % 40
Total % 100

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities Number of Activities Duration (Hours) Workload
Course Hours 14 3 42
Homework Assignments 2 10 20
Midterms 1 15 15
Final 1 20 20
Total Workload 97

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

No Effect 1 Lowest 2 Low 3 Average 4 High 5 Highest
           
Program Outcomes Level of Contribution
1) To be able to dominate medical laboratory medical terms and terminology specific 1
2) To have knowledge medical laboratory tests in every area of the analysis of the relevant tests 1
3) To have knowledge about the working principle of human body metabolism and to be knowledge able about and in all areas of medical laboratory tests and results with the knowledge necessary to establish the relationship between metabolism and gain intellectual structure 1
4) To able to make preparations processes before analysis and after to apply disinfection and sterilization techniques 1
5) To extract the errors that occur during application of the test and to resolve problems that occur 1
6) To have professional authority and responsibility 1
7) To be able to do their work under the rules of professional ethics and proper to be able to properly display . 1
8) To have the consciousness of responsibility who is respectful to history and social values, communicating effectively with patient and health staff to conduct in terms of health services and who is able to make teanwork when needed 1
9) To able to be an individual who is interested in new information and changes life-long and the development of coordinating skill to the improvements in country and in the world. 1