UNI377 Law, Politics and SocietyIstinye UniversityDegree Programs General Information For StudentsDiploma SupplementErasmus Policy StatementNational Qualifications

Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Code: UNI377
Course Name: Law, Politics and Society
Semester: Spring
Course Credits:
ECTS
5
Language of instruction: Turkish
Course Condition:
Does the Course Require Work Experience?: No
Type of course: Departmental Elective
Course Level:
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Mode of Delivery: Face to face
Course Coordinator: Dr. Öğr. Üy. FATEME AYŞİN ANKA
Course Lecturer(s): Asst.Prof.Dr..Fateme Ayşin ANKA
Course Assistants:

Course Objective and Content

Course Objectives: The aim of the Law, Politics and Society course is to provide participants with basic knowledge and skills in the interactions of state, modernity, law and society. This course focuses on the general knowledge necessary to provide students with an awareness of political and social relations in the world and country in which they live.
Course Content: This course includes basic information about the concepts of law, state, politics and society and the relations between them.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
1) 1. Explains law, state and society and related concepts and the relations between them. law.
2) Issues of Identity and Belonging
3) Reasons for Forced Migration
4) Understands the position of the individual within the framework of law and politics.
5) Explains the changing roles of law, state and society and the individual.
6) Read the differentiations in world and national politics with the concepts of law.
7) Political Systems and the State
8) Rights/human rights
9) Globalization, Multiculturalism and Migration
10) Political Systems and the State

Course Flow Plan

Week Subject Related Preparation
1) Introduction: Politics and Law
2) Political Systems and the State
3) Legislature, Judiciary, Executive
4) Concept of Migration, its types, its reasons
5) Democracy
5) Nation and Nationalism
6) Globalization, Multiculturalism
6) Rights/human rights/categories
7) Civil society/public opinion
7) Hybrid Identity and Belonging
8) mid-term
9) International Migration Policies/types of migration and immigrants: UN (UNHCR) Activities
9) Political parties and elections
10) Constitutions
10) Case studies
11) Law and judiciary
11) Migration and Identity, Political Contexts of Identity (National, Ethnic, Religious, Sexual, Ideological Identities)
12) Legislative power
12) Human Rights - Refugee Children
13) Executive power
13) Politics, Migration and Gender-Social Structure Relationship
14) Bureaucracy
14) Climate change

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks: Andrew Heywood, Siyaset, 9.Baskı, Adres Yayınları, Ankara, 2013
Davut Dursun v.d., Sı̇yaset Bı̇lı̇mı̇, Edt. Davut Dursun ve Mustafa
Altunoğlu, AÖF-Anadolu Üniversitesi, 2018,
References: course notes

Course - Program Learning Outcome Relationship

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Course - Learning Outcome Relationship

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Program Outcomes Level of Contribution

Assessment & Grading

Değerlendirme Yöntemleri ve Kriterleri Number of Activities Level of Contribution
Attendance 14 % 10
Homework Assignments 1 % 15
Presentation 1 % 20
Final 1 % 55
total % 100

Workload and ECTS Credit Calculation

Activities Number of Activities Workload
Course Hours 15 45
Study Hours Out of Class 16 67
Presentations / Seminar 1 1
Homework Assignments 1 1
Midterms 1 1
Final 1 1
Total Workload 116