Economics
Bachelor	Length of the Programme: 4	Number of Credits: 240	TR-NQF-HE: Level 6	QF-EHEA: First Cycle	EQF: Level 6

ECTS Course Information Package

School/Faculty/Institute

Faculty of Law

Course Code

LAW 204

Course Title in English

Sociology of Law

Course Title in Turkish

Hukuk Sosyolojisi

Language of Instruction

Type of Course

Lecture

Level of Course

Orta

Semester

Spring

Contact Hours per Week

Lecture: 2

Recitation:

Lab:

Other:

Estimated Student Workload

94 hours per semester

Number of Credits

4 ECTS

Grading Mode

Standard Letter Grade

Pre-requisites

None

Co-requisites

None

Expected Prior Knowledge

None

Registration Restrictions

Only Undergraduate Students

Overall Educational Objective

Enabling the students to gain basic knowledge about interaction between social phenomena and law. This knowledge will provide them a solid basis for their understanding on the function of law and legal institutions in social life.

Course Description

The course aims to provide the students a necessary knowledge to link legal rules and institutions with the social structure in which they are applied and/or established. In the first instance the course presents basic theories on the interaction between social and legal. Then it turns to the practitioners of law such as lawyers, judges, public attorneys and jurors. Lastly the course examines the interaction between law and social groups.

Course Learning Outcomes and Competences

Upon successful completion of the course, the learner is expected to be able to:
1) After successful completion of the course, the learner is expected to be able to use the gained knowledge as argumentative background for discussing and interpreting questions interaction between law and social phenomena.

Program Learning Outcomes/Course Learning Outcomes	1
1) Relates economic knowledge with other social sciences and mathematics, and utilizes it in interdisciplinary analyses
2) Differentiates between the interactions of various fields of economics and synthesizes these distinctions
3) Analyzes economic phenomena by modeling microeconomic and macroeconomic theories using mathematical and statistical tools
4) Evaluate alternative theoretical approaches to solving complex economic problems and rationally apply their findings in decision-making processes
5) Analyze and compare different economic systems using quantitative techniques
6) Apply economic theoretical knowledge and models to issues related to the Turkish and global economies and design evidence-based policy recommendations
7) Analyzes economic data using econometric and statistical methods and presents the results using appropriate software programs
8) Conducts and reports on all stages of economic analysis in accordance with scientific and ethical principles
9) Uses written and spoken English (at least CEFR B2 level) in scientific knowledge sharing
10) Integrates social responsibility into economic decision-making processes
11) Develops the learning competencies necessary for further studies with a high degree of autonomy

Relation to Program Outcomes and Competences

N None	S Supportive	H Highly Related

	Program Outcomes and Competences	Level	Assessed by
1)	Relates economic knowledge with other social sciences and mathematics, and utilizes it in interdisciplinary analyses	N
2)	Differentiates between the interactions of various fields of economics and synthesizes these distinctions	N
3)	Analyzes economic phenomena by modeling microeconomic and macroeconomic theories using mathematical and statistical tools	N
4)	Evaluate alternative theoretical approaches to solving complex economic problems and rationally apply their findings in decision-making processes	N
5)	Analyze and compare different economic systems using quantitative techniques	N
6)	Apply economic theoretical knowledge and models to issues related to the Turkish and global economies and design evidence-based policy recommendations	N
7)	Analyzes economic data using econometric and statistical methods and presents the results using appropriate software programs	N
8)	Conducts and reports on all stages of economic analysis in accordance with scientific and ethical principles	H
9)	Uses written and spoken English (at least CEFR B2 level) in scientific knowledge sharing	H
10)	Integrates social responsibility into economic decision-making processes	H
11)	Develops the learning competencies necessary for further studies with a high degree of autonomy	H

Prepared by and Date	, January 2024
Course Coordinator	FATMA İREM ÇAĞLAR GÜRGEY
Semester	Spring
Name of Instructor

Course Contents

Week	Subject
1)	Introduction
2)	Presentation of the course content
3)	What is law, what is society?
4)	Law in primary (primitive) societies I – elementary points
5)	Law in primary (primitive) societies II – case studies
6)	The culture – nature divide, does it hold?
7)	Culture as evolutionary adaptation
8)	Culture as evolutionary adaptation
9)	From herd to society – is the “rule” the founder of the society?
10)	Cooperation in human societies from an evolutionary perspective
11)	Social norm and its “biology”
12)	Sanction and its “biology”
13)	Norm, law and biological foundations of society
14)	Sum up

Required/Recommended Readings

All course materials will be provided by the lecturer. The students don't need to buy and books etc. For the research on the internet the students should be equipped with a laptop or tablet each lesson.

Teaching Methods

Lecture and Flipped classroom

Homework and Projects

Laboratory Work

Computer Use

Other Activities

Assessment Methods

Assessment Tools	Count	Weight
Midterm(s)	1	% 40
Final Examination	1	% 60
TOTAL		% 100

Course Administration

ECTS Student Workload Estimation

Activity	No/Weeks	Hours			Calculation
	No/Weeks per Semester	Preparing for the Activity	Spent in the Activity Itself	Completing the Activity Requirements
Course Hours	14	1	3		56
Midterm(s)	2	8	2		20
Final Examination	1	16	2		18
Total Workload					94
Total Workload/25					3.8
ECTS					4