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
LAW3007	Drafting Contracts I	Spring	0	2	1	4

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Basic information

Language of instruction:	English
Type of course:	Non-Departmental Elective
Course Level:	Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery:
Course Coordinator :
Recommended Optional Program Components:	None
Course Objectives:	The main objective of the course is to understand the different kinds of contract that can be made and how they are written. WE will discuss contracts as an instrument of commerce, administration and law and we will analyze how contracts are formed via their structure and content. At the end of the course each student should be able to construct and write relevant clauses for a give contract.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
I. Defines the skeleton of an agreement
II. Creates the style of an agreement
III. Resolves the legal english problems for being able to draft an agreement
IV. Forms different clauses which have to be drafted in an agreement
V. Gives the ability of interpretation of an agreement

Course Content

Week 1: Introduction. Structure. Commencement, Recitals, Operative Part, Definitions Section.
Week 2: Paragraphing and reference use
Week 3: Vocabulary and Style of contracts
Week 4: Dealing with mathematical formula and time periods
Week 5: Legal English constructions
Week 6: Legal English translational tools
Week 7: Various forms of Clause
Week 8: midterm exam
Week 9: Access and Adapt model clauses for purpose
Week 10: Understanding how a contract may be interpreted
Week 11: Different methods of interpretation
Week 12: Translational skills
Week 13: Presentation
Week 14: Review For Final Exam
Week 15: Review For Final Exam
Week 16: Final exam

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Subject	Related Preparation
1)	Week 1: Introduction. Structure. Commencement, Recitals, Operative Part, Definitions Section.
2)	Week 2: Paragraphing and reference use
3)	Week 3: Vocabulary and Style of contracts
4)	Week 4: Dealing with mathematical formula and time periods
5)	Week 5: Legal English constructions
6)	Week 6: Legal English translational tools
7)	Week 7: Various forms of Clause
8)	Review
9)	Week 9: Access and Adapt model clauses for purpose
10)	Week 10: Understanding how a contract may be interpreted
11)	Week 11: Different methods of interpretation
12)	Week 12: Translational skills
13)	Week 13: Presentation
14)	Week 14: Review For Final Exam

Sources

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Evaluation System

Semester Requirements	Number of Activities	Level of Contribution
Attendance	14	% 10
Presentation	1	% 20
Midterms	1	% 25
Final	1	% 45
Total		% 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK		% 55
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK		% 45
Total		% 100

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.