Course Code	Semester	Course Name	LE/RC/LA	Course Type	Language of Instruction	ECTS
HUK0327		Law Clinic	2/0/0	DE	Turkish	2

Course Goals	This course aims to empower vulnerable persons through the provision of legal information relevant to their lives by law students. In this course, students make researches on convicts. In taking this course, students have the opportunity to view the law through the eyes of those who live it and develop first-hand experience regarding prisons while also developing skills such as teaching with interactive methods, speaking in public and responding to spontaneous questions.
Prerequisite(s)	Yok
Corequisite(s)	Yok
Special Requisite(s)	Yok
Instructor(s)	Assoc. Prof. Ali Rıza TÖNGÜR
Course Assistant(s)	Res. Asst. Ümit Melih METİNTAŞ
Schedule	Tuesday, 11.00 - 12.45.
Office Hour(s)	a.tongur@iku.edu.tr u.metintas@iku.edu.tr
Teaching Methods and Techniques	-Lecture, discussion
Principle Sources	- Legislations - Jurisprudence
Other Sources	-

Course Schedules
Week	Contents	Learning Methods
1. Week	General information about law clinic	OP
2. Week	Introduction to use of law for social change and difficulties of social change	OP
3. Week	Teaching communication skills	OP
4. Week	Improving communication skills of the students	OP
5. Week	Communication skills and introduction of concepts such as empathy, cultural and gender awareness with interviews	OP
6. Week	Visiting of courts and prisons, also monitoring trials	OP
7. Week	Social and economic causes of crimes	OP
8. Week	Personal and social outcomes of being a prisoner	OP
9. Week	Prison experiments	OP
10. Week	Prison reforms	OP
11. Week	Interactive teaching methods	OP
12. Week	Searching jurisprudence and analyzing judgments	OP
13. Week	Enacting of trial	OP
14. Week	Assignment presentation	OP
15. Week	Final Exam
16. Week	Final Exam
17. Week

Assessments
Evaluation tools	Quantity	Weight(%)
Homework / Term Projects / Presentations	1	10
Final Exam	1	90

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 have knowlegde on the purpose of law clinic LO-2 To have knowledge on how to conduct law clinic LO-3 To have practical experience of law clinic

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