HUMAN RIGHTS AND SOCIAL WORK

SW253

Course Code: SW253
Semester: -
Theory+Practice: 2 + 0
ECTS: 4

Course Type

Elective Course

Course Level

Bachelor's Degree

Year of Study

Semester

ECTS

Name of Lecturer(s)

Associate Professor Emre Özcan

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, the students;

will be able to learn the concept of the historcal development of human rights
will be able to inform about human rights contracts
will be able to interpret infraction of the human rights
will be able to understand that why the human rights are basic for the discipline of social work and how the social work practise carry out the focus of human rights
will be able to understand the ethichs of human rights.

Mode of Delivery

Face to face

Prerequisites

Recommended Optional Programme Components

There is no recommended optional programme component for this course.

Course Description

Concepts of right, justice, equity, democracy and freedom in human rights discourse; first, second and third generation of rights, international human rights conventions, social work with regard to the three generation of rights and rights based perspective.

Course Contents

WEEK	TOPICS
1^st Week	Concept set of human rights
2^nd Week	Historical development and classification of the concept of human rights
3^rd Week	Human rights and ideology
4^th Week	Human rights, state and civil society
5^th Week	Human rights and media
6^th Week	Human rights and gender
7^th Week	Human rights basis of social work profession and discipline
8^th Week	Midterm
9^th Week	Council of Europe and European Court of Human Rights
10^th Week	Turkey's human rights record
11^th Week	Examining basic human rights conventions
12^th Week	Examining basic human rights conventions
13^th Week	Social work and social action
14^th Week	Social work ethics
15^th Week	Evoluation

Recommended or Required Reading

YILDIZ Mustafa. 2002. Alternatif İnsan Hakları Kuramı. İstanbul: Anka Yayınları.
KABOĞLU Ö. 2003. İbrahim. Hangi İnsan Hakları?. İstanbul: İmge Kitabevi.
ÇÜÇEN Kadir. 2011. İnsan Hakları. İstanbul: Marmara Kitap Merkezi Yayınları.
KUÇURADİ İoanna. 2011. İnsan Hakları Kavramları ve Sorunları. İstanbul: Türkiye Felsefe Kurumu Yayınları.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture
Discussion
Questions/Answers

Assessment Methods and Criteria

	Quantity	Percentage (%)
Mid-term	1	40
Total(%)		40
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%)		40
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%)		60
Total(%)		100

ECTS Allocated Based on Student Workload

Activities	Quantity	Duration (Hour)	Total Workload (Hour)
Midterm exam	1	2	2
Preparation for Quiz
Individual or group work	14	3	42
Preparation for Final exam	3	3	9
Course hours	14	2	28
Preparation for Midterm exam	2	3	6
Laboratory (including preparation)
Final exam	1	3	3
Homework
Presentation (including preperation)
Project
Quiz
Take-home
Field Research
Meeting with advisor
Performance Practice
Book Presentation
Article Presentation
Case Study Presentation
Thesis Proposal
Article	12	2	24
Thesis Research
Weekly Articles and Resource Research
Preperation for Presentations
Total Work Load			114
Total Work Load / 30 (h)			3.8
ECTS Credit of the Course			4

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)

Programme Qualifications / Learning Outcomes

	LO1	LO2	LO3	LO4	LO5
K1	X	X	X	X	X
K2
K3
K4
K5
K6	X	X	X
K7				X	X