KHK615 - LAW and LITERATURE
| Course Name | Code | Semester | Theory (hours/week) |
Application (hours/week) |
Credit | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LAW and LITERATURE | KHK615 | 1st Semester | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| Prequisites | ||||||
| Course language | Turkish | |||||
| Course type | Elective | |||||
| Mode of Delivery | Face-to-Face | |||||
| Learning and teaching strategies | Lecture Discussion Question and Answer Team/Group Work Role Play Preparing and/or Presenting Reports Project Design/Management | |||||
| Instructor (s) | Associate Prof. Dr. Öykü Didem Aydın | |||||
| Course objective | To practice two common features of law and literature in two different approaches. To teach the law perspective in literature To explore the used/ non-used literature styles in law articles To combine law and literature | |||||
| Learning outcomes |
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| Course Content | Critical thinking on the relation of law and literature will be made. | |||||
| References | Öykü Didem Aydın: http://www.edebiyatvehukuk.org BASIC REFERENCES Emergence of modern societies, new class relations and the law of the ?establishment? 1. Modern toplumun ortaya çıkışı, yeni sınıf ilişkileri ve egemenin hukuku Turgenyev- Babalar ve Oğullar Jack LONDON- Martin Eden 2. Nation-building and role of literature in citizen-consciousness-building Adalet AĞAOĞLU- Ölmeye Yatmak (Düşünülecek) 3. Systemic Injustice: Oppression under color of law 3.1- Legitimization of lawlessness under circumstances of emergency situations and war 3.2- Role of literature in coming to terms with the past systemic injustice and understanding ?today? with a perpective of history Bernard Schlink- Okuyucu (Der Vorleser) Öykü Didem AYDIN- Eski Sinagog Meydanı | |||||
Course outline weekly
| Weeks | Topics |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Law and Literature as an interdisciplinary field |
| Week 2 | Law in Literature |
| Week 3 | Presentation of a Literary work and discussion |
| Week 4 | Presentation of a Literary work and discussion |
| Week 5 | Presentation of a Literary work and discussion |
| Week 6 | Literature in Law |
| Week 7 | Presentation of a legal text and discussion |
| Week 8 | Presentation of a legal text and discussion |
| Week 9 | Midterm exam |
| Week 10 | Discussion of midterm exam text |
| Week 11 | Regulation of Literature by legal institutions, ?Dichterjuristen?, Prison Literature, Law versus Literature (prosecutions against literary authors, banned fictional works) |
| Week 12 | Presentation of several authors discussion |
| Week 13 | Presentation of several fictional works and discussion |
| Week 14 | Law as a tool for literary critics |
| Week 15 | Final exam |
| 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 | 0 | 0 |
| Presentation | 1 | 25 |
| 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 | 1 | 14 |
| Presentation / Seminar Preparation | 1 | 44 | 44 |
| Project | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Homework assignment | 1 | 40 | 40 |
| Midterms (Study duration) | 1 | 30 | 30 |
| Final Exam (Study duration) | 1 | 40 | 40 |
| Total Workload | 32 | 158 | 210 |
Matrix Of The Course Learning Outcomes Versus Program Outcomes
| D.9. Key Learning Outcomes | Contrubition level* | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1. Has the ability to access to sources of information, use, compare, interpret, infer and apply scientific data. | X | ||||
| 2. Has the knowledge on science of law and legal systems and the historical development of the rights of individuals and societies and the basic texts adopted in that process, and has the historical knowledge to interpret the achievements of modern law. | X | ||||
| 3. Masters the provisions regulating the relationships between persons and the state and has the ability to interpret those provisions. | X | ||||
| 4. Has the ability to use information technologies and course materials in the process of teaching and learning. | X | ||||
| 5. Has the ability to solve current legal problems in the framework of modern legal approaches. | X | ||||
| 6. Has a level of understanding and knowledge of the profession in order to reflect all of the features required by the profession in the best possible way at national and international levels. | X | ||||
| 7. Masters the legal regulations and practices on economic and financial mechanisms. | X | ||||
| 8. Has the ability to be able to express herself/himself as an individual and in front of a community. | X | ||||
| 9. Has the ability to use, compare and apply the knowledge of universal law. | X | ||||
| 10. Has the ability to understand and process national and international dimensions of law by following the case law and legal practices. | X | ||||
*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest