Course Code	Semester	Course Name	LE/RC/LA	Course Type	Language of Instruction	ECTS
HUK0310		Law and Semiotics	2/0/0	DE	Turkish	2

Course Goals	To discuss the symbols and rhetoric of law by semiotics point of view.
Prerequisite(s)	NONE
Corequisite(s)	NONE
Special Requisite(s)	NONE
Instructor(s)	Assoc. Prof. Remziye KÖSE ÖZELÇİ
Course Assistant(s)
Schedule	Friday, 15.00-16.45, Amphi 5
Office Hour(s)	r.ozelci@iku.edu.tr
Teaching Methods and Techniques	Visual and oral
Principle Sources	1.     F. de Saussure, Genel Dilbilim Dersleri, Çev. Berke Vardar, Multilingual, İstanbul, 2001. 2.     Tahsin Yücel, Yapısalcılık, YKY, İstanbul, 1999. 3.     Tahsin Yücel, Göstergeler, Can Yay. İstanbul, 2006. 4.     Ertuğrul Uzun, Hukuk Göstergebilimi, Legal Yay. İstanbul, 2007.
Other Sources

Course Schedules
Week	Contents	Learning Methods
1. Week	To give information about lesson.	Oral Presentation
2. Week	Sign and semiotics.	Oral Presentation
3. Week	Semiotics and theoretical approaches.	Oral Presentation
4. Week	Structuralism and semiotics	Oral Presentation
5. Week	Discourse and narrative	Oral Presentation
6. Week	A. Julien Greimas and narrative analysis	Oral Presentation
7. Week	literary semiotics	Oral Presentation
8. Week	Literature, relationship between reality and fiction.	Oral Presentation
9. Week	Fiction and law.	Oral Presentation
10. Week	C. Sanders Peirce, reality and his semiotics model.	Oral Presentation
11. Week	To analys the film ("The Trial" ; Orson Welles)	Oral Presentation
12. Week	To analys the film (The Midnight Ekspress; Alan Parker)	Oral Presentation
13. Week	Legal semiotics and legal realism	Oral Presentation
14. Week	General Review	Oral Presentation
15. Week	Examination.
16. Week	Examination.
17. Week	Examination.

Assessments
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Program Outcomes PO-1 1. Have the ability to reach and evaluate information sources PO-2 2. Have the ability to use, compare, interpret, deduce from and apply scientific data PO-3 3. Have historical knowledge enabling to interpret modern law achievements PO-4 4. Have the ability to use Turkish efficiently verbally and in written PO-5 5. Have the ability to follow up professional literature at least in a foreign language PO-6 6. Have acquired professional and ethical sense of responsibility PO-7 7. Have the ability to use vocational information technologies efficiently for solution of legal problems PO-8 8. Have the ability to apply information acquired to solution of a concrete case PO-9 9. Have full knowledge of legal rules which regulate relationship among natural legal persons and have the ability to interpret such rules PO-10 10. Have full knowledge of legal rules which regulate relationship between individual and state and have the ability to interpret such rules PO-11 11. Have the ability to practice the profession as a lawyer who adopts universal principles of law PO-12 12. Have full knowledge of basic concepts and rules regarding structure and relationship manners of international community; have the ability to interpret and discuss about the foregoing PO-13 13. Have basic knowledge enabling to evaluate international community’s common issues and their possible solutions PO-14 14. Have knowledge enabling to apply to human rights bodies having a supranational judicial quality and to follow up the process PO-15 15. Have knowledge on the European Union (EU) 'Acquis Communautaire' and operation of the EU institutions PO-16 16. Have a world view enabling to question, criticize and develop law in direction with needs of humanity PO-17 17. Have knowledge on historical development process of jurisprudence and judicial systems PO-18 18. Have the ability to solve actual legal problems within the frame of contemporary legal approaches PO-19 19. Be at the level of understanding and knowledge which reflects all qualities in the best way required by the profession on national and international scale PO-20 20. Have full knowledge of legal arrangements and practices regarding economic and financial mechanisms PO-21 21. Have knowledge on historical development of rights of individuals and societies and on basic texts adopted during the process PO-22 22. Have the ability to express himself individually and before a group PO-23 23. Have the ability to use, compare, interpret, deduce from and apply scientific data PO-24 24. Have the ability to follow up regulations and legal quests in order to meet new needs appeared within the frame of relationships between individuals PO-25 25. Have the ability to cooperate by implementing activities during courses, hypothetical law suits and judicial studies and other vocational and academic visits PO-26 26. Have the ability to understand and handle national and international dimensions of law, jurisprudence and practices by means of follow up PO-27 27. Have knowledge of international judicial bodies and their ways of operation

Learning Outcomes LO-1 To learn the concepts of semiotics and indicators. LO-2 To learn theoretical approaches LO-3 To examine the relationship between reality and fiction. LO-4 To establish the relationship between semiotics and legal reality. LO-5 To case studies of law in the light of indications solutions.

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