LAW2082 Theory of 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
LAW2082 Theory of Rights Fall 0 2 1 4
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: Face to face
Course Coordinator : Dr. Öğr. Üyesi ELİF KÜZECİ
Recommended Optional Program Components: None.
Course Objectives: This course's main objective is to define the contemporary laws basic principles such as ¨right¨, ¨human rights¨ and ¨public liberty¨. In the manner of this the birth and the evolution to the concepts ¨rights¨ and ¨human rights¨ will be narrated to the students.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
The outcomes will be;
- Gets basic knowledges about the relation between law and politics.
- Apprehends the basic value in the soul of the concepts ¨rights¨, ¨human rights¨ and ¨public liberties¨.
- Learns the meanings of the concepts ¨right¨, ¨human rights¨ and ¨public liberties¨.
- Learns the historical roots of the concepts ¨human rights¨ and ¨public liberties¨.
- Apprehends the modern structure of ¨human rights¨ and ¨public liberties¨.
- Gets basic knowledges about the evolution and the approaches to the subject in Turkish history.
- Attains enough information to be able to discuss current discussions about the subject.

Course Content

I. Explanation of the relation between the concepts ¨right¨ and ¨human rights¨.
II. Exposurement of the expression public liberties.
III. Ideation source of human rights.
IV. Historical evolution of human rights.
V. Starting the practices of human rights doctrine.
VI. Valuation of modern-democratic understanding of liberty.
VII.Human rights and political systems.
VIII. Human rights and economic facts.
IX. Limitation of human rights.
X. Protection of human rights.
XI. Limitation of the government and the theory of rights.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week Subject Related Preparation
1) Explanation of the relation between the concepts ¨right¨ and ¨human rights¨.
2) Explanation of the relation between the concepts ¨right¨ and ¨human rights¨. - II
3) Exposurement of the expression public liberties.
4) Ideation source of human rights.
5) Ideation the source of human rights- II
6) Historical evolution of human rights.
7) Historical evolution of the human rights- II
8) Starting the practices of human rights doctrine.
9) Valuation of modern-democratic understanding of liberty.
10) Human rights and political systems.
11) Human rights and economic facts.
12) Limitation of human rights.
13) Protection of human rights.
14) Limitation of the government and the theory of rights.

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks: Münci Kapani, Kamu Hürriyetleri, Yetkin, Ankara 1993.
Ahmet Mumcu, Elif Küzeci, İnsan Hakları ve Kamu Özgürlükleri, Ankara 2011.
Jack Donelly, Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice,2003.
References: Donald G. Tannenbaum, David Schultz, Siyasi Düşünce Tarihi, Adres, 2011. Gökçen Alpkaya ve diğ., İnsan Hakları, YKY, 2000.
İbrahim Ö. Kaboğlu, Özgürlükler Hukuku, İmge, 2002.
Leslie Lipson, Uygarlığın Ahlaki Bunalımları, İş Bankası Yayınları, 2000. Mehmet Semih Gemalmaz, Devlet, Birey ve Özgürlük, Legal, 2012.
İoanna Kuçuradi, İnsan Hakları: Kavramları ve Sorunları, Türkiye Felsefe Kurumu, 2011.
Siyasal Düşünce, der. Michael Rosen, Jonathan Wolff, Dost, 2006.

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements Number of Activities Level of Contribution
Midterms 1 % 30
Final 1 % 70
Total % 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK % 30
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK % 70
Total % 100

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities Number of Activities Duration (Hours) Workload
Course Hours 14 2 28
Study Hours Out of Class 16 1 16
Midterms 1 15 15
Final 1 30 30
Total Workload 89

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) 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.