GZT108 Fundamental Concepts of Law

4 ECTS - 2-0 Duration (T+A)- 2. Semester- 2 National Credit

Information

Unit FACULTY OF COMMUNICATION
JOURNALISM PR.
Code GZT108
Name Fundamental Concepts of Law
Term 2018-2019 Academic Year
Semester 2. Semester
Duration (T+A) 2-0 (T-A) (17 Week)
ECTS 4 ECTS
National Credit 2 National Credit
Teaching Language Türkçe
Level Lisans Dersi
Type Normal
Label C Compulsory
Mode of study Yüz Yüze Öğretim
Catalog Information Coordinator TARIK POLAT İŞOĞLU
Course Instructor TARIK POLAT İŞOĞLU (Bahar) (A Group) (Ins. in Charge)


Course Goal / Objective

This course aims to Introduce the students of Faculty of Communication to the concepts of basic law,for them to acquire the concepts of the rule of law and rule of law principles in professional life , knowledge about their rights and to ensure their contrubition.

Course Content

The Concept of Law, sources of law, the organization structure of the judiciary in Turkey, the concept of rights, protection of rights, the concept and types of people, basic information about legal processes.

Course Precondition

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Course Learning Outcomes

Order Course Learning Outcomes
LO01 Recognizes the basic concepts of Law.
LO02 Recognizes the basic concepts of Law Acknowledges the basics of legal right.
LO03 Recognizes the legal structure of judiciary in Turkey.
LO04 Rocognises that Concept of Norm, branches of law, Public Law and Private Law
LO05 Realises that Principle of separation of powers: Legislation/Execution/Judiciary
LO06 Recognises that the judiciary and court system
LO07 Recognises that the hierarchy of norms
LO08 Mid-Term
LO09 Students learn that Notion of the Rights, obtaining, deceiving and protecting
LO10 Recognises that public and private rights
LO11 Learns that goodwill rules
LO12 Being recognised that Individual, law juristic person-law natural person, capacity of having rights
LO13 Being Learned that personality and act, legal capacity
LO14 Legal procedures, theory
LO15 Relations between media and law


Relation with Program Learning Outcome

Order Type Program Learning Outcomes Level
PLO01 - Knows theoretical approaches in the field of media and communication, and gains ability of development of new approaches in these fields 0
PLO02 - Knows communication models, and interpreting these models in terms of sociology, psychology, economics etc., puts particular contributions to these models 0
PLO03 - Gains competent, mainly in social and humanities sciences, in some kind of sciences, does multidisciplinary science research, and analyses these kinds of studies/research 0
PLO04 - Recognizing news production models, leads to new models and approaches. 0
PLO05 - Protuces, edits and directs news/reporting in any kind of media (newspaper, magazine, web site, radia, television etc.). 0
PLO06 - Takes photograph, mainly in the field of press photo, in some kind of photography fields 0
PLO07 - Uses communication technologies effectively, and gains production ability of appropriate contents for increasingly developing new communication technologies 0
PLO08 - Works as press adviser, communication coordinator and maneger, and so on in some state and private institutions 0
PLO09 - Learning relevant concepts and notions of, notably in journalism field, communication and mess media, make some contributions to these fields as new concepts and notions 0
PLO10 - Reaches at a consciousness level in which synthesises society, culture and communication concepts each other 0
PLO11 - Gains empathy ability to recognize both individual and societal processes 0
PLO12 - Getting effective communication ability, learns basic dynamics of communication processes, and goes into action in this direction 0
PLO13 - Evaluating contents of media organisations, finds out actual issues and lacks, and has a part to come over these problems 0
PLO14 - Supports peace and consensus of a society, and taking over a mediator mechanism role in any conflicts, sees communication right as primary, and tries to figure out the issues in peaceful and humanitarian ways 0
PLO15 - Works in any national and international medya organisations such as newspaper, magazine, web site, radio, television etc 0
PLO16 - Together with gaining individual/free working ability, be able to be a part of any kind of collective institutions, and be successful to adapts to grups 0
PLO17 - Has self-confidence both to decision making and to participate in decision making process, and takes responsibility while any issue occured 0
PLO18 - Recognizes new missions and works easly, and easly adapts to new trends and movements in the developing and changing world and professional life. 0
PLO19 - Tends to events by professional ways, and considering rational mind and knowledge, tries to figure out issues and facts on the line of scientific 0
PLO20 - Has an high conciseness on society and collectivism, and as be able to be successful in personal life, takes the responsibilities belonging to himself/herself in a social system. 0
PLO21 - Approaches to personal, interpersonal and mess communication processes, knowing what communication and its aims are; and takes an opinion leader role in the communication processes. 0
PLO22 - Lerans a foreign language, at least, at a good level, and in the international area, participates in news/reporting flows and so on. 0
PLO23 - Grasps the field of media and communication, and making in his/her actions through dynamics of these fields, contributes to development of a good communication environment. 0
PLO24 - Conceders social utilities in his/her works and productions, and in these directions, develops communication strategies, and pays attention to humanitarian values as primarily in producing news, reporting, photo, video, graphics etc. 0
PLO25 - Enables society to recognize role of media, and gains depth about such particular subjects as media literacy, new media and social media and so on. 0
PLO26 - Tends to contents in related to general public interests in the media and communication environments such as newspaper, magazine, radio, television, blogs and web sides etc. 0
PLO27 - Since absorbs ethics values of vocation, doesn’t allows to any discriminating or othering content in either his/her professional life or in contents produced by him/her, and finally tries to prevent such kind of discourses. 0


Week Plan

Week Topic Preparation Methods
1 Introduction none
2 What is Law - the definition reading
3 Sources and methods of Law reading
4 Concept of Norm, branches of law, Public Law and Private Law reading
5 Principle of separation of powers: Legislation/Execution/Judiciary reading
6 Organization of Judiciary reading
7 Hierarchy of norms reading
8 Mid-Term Exam reading
9 Notion of the Rights, obtaining, deceiving and protecting reading
10 Public Rights-Private Rights reading
11 Principle of goodwill reading
12 Individual, law juristic person-law natural person, capacity of having rights reading
13 personality and act, legal capacity reading
14 Legal procedures, theory reading
15 Media and law reading
16 Term Exams all file
17 Term Exams all file


Assessment (Exam) Methods and Criteria

Assessment Type Midterm / Year Impact End of Term / End of Year Impact
1. Midterm Exam 100 40
General Assessment
Midterm / Year Total 100 40
1. Final Exam - 60
Grand Total - 100


Student Workload - ECTS

Works Number Time (Hour) Workload (Hour)
Course Related Works
Class Time (Exam weeks are excluded) 14 2 28
Out of Class Study (Preliminary Work, Practice) 14 2 28
Assesment Related Works
Homeworks, Projects, Others 1 0 0
Mid-term Exams (Written, Oral, etc.) 1 8 8
Final Exam 1 24 24
Total Workload (Hour) 88
Total Workload / 25 (h) 3,52
ECTS 4 ECTS

Update Time: 09.05.2025 05:07