ECE4050 Teaching Children’s RightsBahçeşehir UniversityDegree Programs SOFTWARE ENGINEERINGGeneral Information For StudentsDiploma SupplementErasmus Policy StatementNational QualificationsBologna Commission
SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
Bachelor TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 QF-EHEA: First Cycle EQF-LLL: Level 6

Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Code Course Name Semester Theoretical Practical Credit ECTS
ECE4050 Teaching Children’s Rights Fall 3 0 3 6
This catalog is for information purposes. Course status is determined by the relevant department at the beginning of semester.

Basic information

Language of instruction: English
Type of course: Non-Departmental Elective
Course Level: Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery:
Course Coordinator : Assoc. Prof. SEDA SARAÇ
Recommended Optional Program Components: None
Course Objectives: • Demonstrate their knowledge of policy initiatives regarding rights of the children
• Make connections between historical antecedents and current approaches to children rights and children rights education
• Use core themes and findings from the research literature to identify strengths and limitations in a range of reported children’s rights education approaches
• Develop their understanding of children’s rights and citizenships rights
• Evaluate associations between children’s rights education and overall development.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;

Course Content

The Module will introduce and critically examine the concept of children’s rights in international human rights law, focusing on the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. It offers a systematic investigation of the rights that the Convention protects, and introduces classic and contemporary theories of childhood and human rights, and covers the philosophical foundations of children’s rights. The module locates the debates about children’s rights within broader theoretical questions concerning childhood and society.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week Subject Related Preparation
1) Introduction to the course
2) Children, International Human Rights Law and Childhood StudiesInternational Children’s Rights Law – Between Paternalism and Liberation, Empowerment and Agency
3) The Right to Participation
4) Children’s Citizenship Rights and the Convention’s Optional Protocol of Communication
5) The Principle of the Best Interests of the Child
6) The Child’s Family – Rights and Responsibilities
7) MIDTERM
8) Corporal Punishment
9) Schools’ environment and the Right to Education
10) Children’s Health and Right to Health
11) Juvenile Justice
12) Children at the Margins
13) Children’s Rights in Practice
14) Concluding reflections on profession

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks: There is no set text book. The course will be based on a series of articles and texts, which will be provided via Its Learning (virtual learning environment) at the start of the academic year.
References:

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements Number of Activities Level of Contribution
Total %
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK % 0
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK %
Total %

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities Number of Activities Duration (Hours) Workload
Course Hours 14 3 42
Laboratory 6 10 60
Study Hours Out of Class 14 2 28
Presentations / Seminar 1 1 1
Homework Assignments 10 1 10
Quizzes 2 2 4
Midterms 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
Total Workload 149

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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Program Outcomes Level of Contribution
1) Be able to specify functional and non-functional attributes of software projects, processes and products.
2) Be able to design software architecture, components, interfaces and subcomponents of a system for complex engineering problems.
3) Be able to develop a complex software system with in terms of code development, verification, testing and debugging.
4) Be able to verify software by testing its program behavior through expected results for a complex engineering problem.
5) Be able to maintain a complex software system due to working environment changes, new user demands and software errors that occur during operation.
6) Be able to monitor and control changes in the complex software system, to integrate the software with other systems, and to plan and manage new releases systematically.
7) Be able to identify, evaluate, measure, manage and apply complex software system life cycle processes in software development by working within and interdisciplinary teams.
8) Be able to use various tools and methods to collect software requirements, design, develop, test and maintain software under realistic constraints and conditions in complex engineering problems.
9) Be able to define basic quality metrics, apply software life cycle processes, measure software quality, identify quality model characteristics, apply standards and be able to use them to analyze, design, develop, verify and test complex software system.
10) Be able to gain technical information about other disciplines such as sustainable development that have common boundaries with software engineering such as mathematics, science, computer engineering, industrial engineering, systems engineering, economics, management and be able to create innovative ideas in entrepreneurship activities.
11) Be able to grasp software engineering culture and concept of ethics and have the basic information of applying them in the software engineering and learn and successfully apply necessary technical skills through professional life.
12) Be able to write active reports using foreign languages and Turkish, understand written reports, prepare design and production reports, make effective presentations, give clear and understandable instructions.
13) Be able to have knowledge about the effects of engineering applications on health, environment and security in universal and societal dimensions and the problems of engineering in the era and the legal consequences of engineering solutions.