COURSE DESCRIPTION AND APPLICATION INFORMATION
| Course Name | Code | Semester | T+A+L (hour/week) | Type (C / O) | Local Credit | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Law, Literature and Art | LW 144 | Spring | 02+00+00 | Compulsory | 2 | 4 |
| Academic Unit: | Law |
| Mode of Delivery: | Face to face |
| Prerequisites: | None |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Course Unit: | Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Reyda ERGÜN |
| Course Objectives: | 1. To train lawyers who are able to look at legal processes from an extensive and critical perspective. 2. To broaden and enrich students’ world view with the resources of literature and art. 3. To improve students’ ability of expressing themselves, of conducting a democratic discussion, of being able to take a different approach to the issues discussed. |
| Course Contents: | The objective of this course is to provide freshmen students with an extensive and critical perspective on legal processes while giving meaning to basic notions which they will meet during their education and career, such as freedom, democracy and human rights. In this context, this course emphasizes on law’s relation with social, cultural, political, psychological and historical processes, and introduces the students to the resources which literature and art may provide to the lawyer for thinking on these processes. In this course, the active participation of students is essential and they are expected to be able to discuss the fundamental issues on human condition in respect to actual political, social and legal processes. |
| Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit (LO): |
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| Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods: | Lectures and discussions through active participation of students |
WEEKLY SUBJECTS AND RELATED PREPARATIONS
| Week | Subjects | Related Preperation | LO |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What is law? | 1 | |
| 2 | The notion of law and its relation with related notions | 1-2 | |
| 3 | The notion of norm and its relation with other codes of social conduct | 1-2 | |
| 4 | Basic concepts of legal theory | 1-2 | |
| 5 | Sources of law and the hierarchy of norms | 1-2-3 | |
| 6 | The distinction public law – private law, and branches of law | 1-2-3 | |
| 7 | An introduction to legal methodology | 1-3-4 | |
| 8 | The law – logic relation: the role of rules of logic in the practice of law | 1-3-4 | |
| 9 | The method problem in practice of law and the effect of the distinction public law – private law on method | 1-3-4 | |
| 10 | Distinctions according to various criteria among legal norms and the effects of these distinctions on method | 1-3-4 | |
| 11 | Interpretation of legal norms and kinds of Interpretation | 1-4 | |
| 12 | Analogy, argumentum a contrario, argumentum a fortiori | 1-4 | |
| 13 | The judiciary role of filling in gaps left by legal rules | 1-4 | |
| 14 | The discretion of judge | 1-4 |
At Kadir Has University, a Semester is 14 weeks; The weeks 15 and 16 are reserved for final exams.
REQUIRED AND RECOMMENDED READING
| BERGER John, From A to X: A Story in Letters, Verso, Londra, New York, 2009. BERGER John, Ways of Seeing, Penguin Books, Londra, 1990. BRADBURY Ray, Fahrenheit 451, Simon & Schuster, 2012. GARY Romain, The Roots of Heaven (trans. Jonathan Griffin), Time Incorporated, 1964. ISHIGURO Kazuo, Never Let Me Go, Vintage, 2005. LEGUIN Ursula K., The Dispossessed, Harper Voyager, 1994. LEGUIN Ursula K., The Left Hand of Darkness, Ace Trade, 2000. LEM Stanislaw, Solaris, Walker and Company, 1970. ORWELL George, 1984 (ed. Erich Fromm), Signet Classic, 1950. |
OTHER COURSE RESOURCES
| Fahrenheit 451/ Değişen Dünyanın İnsanları (François Truffaut, 1966) Blade Runner / Bıcak Sırtı (Ridley Scott, 1982) 1984 (Michael Radford, 1984) Never Let Me Go / Beni Asla Bırakma (Mark Romanek, 2010) The Mission / Misyon (Roland Joffe, 1986) Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972) The Sea Inside / İçimdeki Deniz (Alejandro Amenabar, 2004) |
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA
| Semester Requirements | Number | Percentage of Grade (%) |
|---|---|---|
| Midterms / Oral Exams / Quizes | 1 | 40 |
| Final Exam | 1 | 60 |
| Total: | 2 | 100 |
WORKLOAD
| Events | Count | Duration (Hours) | Total Workload (hour) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Hours | 14 | 2 | 28 |
| Practice / Exercise | 14 | 1 | 14 |
| Extra-Class Activities (reading,individiual work, etc.) | 12 | 2 | 24 |
| Midterms / Oral Exams / Quizes | 1 | 5 | 5 |
| Final Exam | 1 | 5 | 5 |
| Total Workload (hour): | 76 | ||
1 ECTS = 25 Hours Workload
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (LO) AND PROGRAM QUALIFICATIONS (PQ)
| # | PQ1 | PQ2 | PQ3 | PQ4 | PQ5 | PQ6 | PQ7 | PQ8 | PQ9 | PQ10 |
| LO1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| LO2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | |
| LO3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| LO4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
Contribution: 1 Low, 2 Average, 3 High