SHO734 - HUMAN RIGHTS and SOCIAL WORK
| Course Name | Code | Semester | Theory (hours/week) |
Application (hours/week) |
Credit | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HUMAN RIGHTS and SOCIAL WORK | SHO734 | 3rd Semester | 3 | 0 | 3 | 10 |
| Prequisites | - | |||||
| Course language | Turkish | |||||
| Course type | Elective | |||||
| Mode of Delivery | Face-to-Face | |||||
| Learning and teaching strategies | Lecture Discussion Preparing and/or Presenting Reports Case Study | |||||
| Instructor (s) | Prof. Dr. Kasım Karataş | |||||
| Course objective | To establish the relationship between human rights, social welfare and social work | |||||
| Learning outcomes |
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| Course Content | Human rights theory The human value The concept of human rights, and its development. United Nations Documents on Human Rights. The Council of Europe documents on human rights Other sources on human rights Protection of human rights issue National and international human rights defense mechanisms Human rights and social work The role of social work in the protection of human rights Human rights in the fields of social work practice: Rights, violations and solutions. | |||||
| References | 1. İnsan Hakları ve Sosyal Hizmet (2000). BM Yayın no: 26, Ankara. 2. İnsan Haklarının Felsefi Temelleri (1982). Hacettepe Üniversitesi , Yayına Hazırlayan: İonnaKuçuradi, Ankara. 3. Karataş, Kasım "İnsan Hakları Açısından Özürlülerin İstihdamı", Görme Özürlülerin Mesleki Rehabilitasyonu ve İstihdamı Konferansı, Ed. Kasım Karataş, 184-187, Altı Nokta Körlere Hizmet Vakfı Yayın No: 2, Ankara, 1997. 4. Karataş, Kasım "İnsan Hakları ve Sosyal Hizmet" Değişen Türkiye?de İnsan Hakları Açısından Sosyal Hizmetler,Ed. Kasım Karataş, Sosyal Hizmet Uzmanları Derneği Genel Merkez Yayını No.: 006, Ankara, 2002. 5. Karataş, Kasım ve Gülsüm Çamur Duyan. "İnsan Hakları Açısından Engelli Kadınlar ve Sorunları" Engelli Kadınların Sorunları ve Çözümleri Sempozyumu, İstanbul: 2005, 56-62. 6. Mapp, Susan C. Human RightsandSocialJustice in a Global Perspective: An Introductionto International SocialWork, United States of America: 2008. | |||||
Course outline weekly
| Weeks | Topics |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Human rights theory |
| Week 2 | The human value |
| Week 3 | The concept of human rights, and its development. |
| Week 4 | United Nations Documents on Human Rights 1. International Convention on Civil and Political Rights 1966 2. Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, International Convention 1966 |
| Week 5 | United Nations Documents on Human Rights 3. Children's Rights Convention 1989 4. Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide 1948. 5. International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination 1965. |
| Week 6 | Midterm exam |
| Week 7 | United Nations Documents on Human Rights 6. Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment Convention 1984. 7. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women 1979. |
| Week 8 | The Council of Europe documents on human rights. Other sources on human rights. |
| Week 9 | Protection of human rights issue National and international human rights defense mechanisms |
| Week 10 | Human rights and social work The role of social work in the protection of human rights |
| Week 11 | Midtermexam |
| Week 12 | Human rights in the fields of social work practice: Rights, violations and solutions. The Justice System and Social Work |
| Week 13 | Children's Rights and Social Work |
| Week 14 | Women's Rights and Social Work |
| Week 15 | Patient Rights and Social Work Rights of disabled people and Social Work |
| Week 16 | Final exam |
Assesment methods
| Course activities | Number | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance | 0 | 0 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 |
| Application | 0 | 0 |
| Field activities | 0 | 0 |
| Specific practical training | 0 | 0 |
| Assignments | 1 | 10 |
| Presentation | 1 | 15 |
| Project | 0 | 0 |
| Seminar | 0 | 0 |
| Midterms | 1 | 25 |
| Final exam | 1 | 50 |
| Total | 100 | |
| Percentage of semester activities contributing grade succes | 0 | 50 |
| Percentage of final exam contributing grade succes | 0 | 50 |
| Total | 100 | |
WORKLOAD AND ECTS CALCULATION
| Activities | Number | Duration (hour) | Total Work Load |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Duration (x14) | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Application | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Specific practical training | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Field activities | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Study Hours Out of Class (Preliminary work, reinforcement, ect) | 14 | 4 | 56 |
| Presentation / Seminar Preparation | 1 | 50 | 50 |
| Project | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Homework assignment | 1 | 50 | 50 |
| Midterms (Study duration) | 1 | 50 | 50 |
| Final Exam (Study duration) | 1 | 52 | 52 |
| Total Workload | 32 | 209 | 300 |
Matrix Of The Course Learning Outcomes Versus Program Outcomes
| D.9. Key Learning Outcomes | Contrubition level* | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1. On the basis of master's program outcomes, the student develops and deepens contemporary and advanced knowledge of social work at an expert level with original thinking and/or research and reach original concepts to bring new perspectives to the field. | X | ||||
| 2. Comprehends the interaction among social work and related disciplines; reaches original results via utilizing the knowledge which requires expertise on the analysis, sythesis and evaluation of new and complicated views. | X | ||||
| 3. Has the knowledge of various advanced resesarch methods and techniques | X | ||||
| 4. Uses a foreign language at least at the level of General Level C1 of European Language Portfolio in terms of writing, verbal anf visual communication and discussion at an advanced level. | X | ||||
| 5. Has the ability to evaluate and use the new knowledge in the field of social work with a systematic approach | X | ||||
| 6. Has the ability to develop clinical and macro social work models on the basis of the rproblems and needs in social work fields. | X | ||||
| 7. Has the ability to develop and implement a new thought, method, design and/or application or implements an existing thought, method, design and/or application to a different field of social work; has the ability to study, comprehend, design, adapt and implement an original subject. | X | ||||
| 8. Makes critical analysis, synthesis and evaluation of new and complicated views and concepts. | X | ||||
| 9. Supervises complicated and challenging cases. | X | ||||
| 10. Contributes the field of social work by carrying out an original study independently which either brings a new view, method, design and/or application or immplicates an existing view, method, design and/or application in a new field. | X | ||||
| 11. Expands the limits of the area of social work by publishing articles on national and international peer reviewed journals. | X | ||||
| 12. Takes leading position in mileau where there is need for understanding and awareness about psiycho-social problems related to the field of social work or interdisciplinary fields. | X | ||||
| 13. Develops clinical and macro methods via using cognitive processes like creative and critical thinking, problem solving and decision making; and transfers it to professional/academic mileau. | X | ||||
| 14. Manages efforts toward studying, developing and changing social relations and the norms that govern those social relations where necessary. | X | ||||
| 15. Develops an effective relation with experts in the discussions about the field that shows the ability to defend original views and expertise in the field. | X | ||||
*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest