Kocaeli University Faculty of Law Institutional Profile

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Kocaeli UniversityFaculty of LawInstitutional
Profile

• Evaluation Visit of the European Universities
  Association
• 20-22 February 2006

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Aim

• To describe Kocaeli University Faculty of Law in
  terms of
• Facilities
• Administration
• Education
• International Academic Relations

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1. Facilities

• Teaching facilities
• Lecture halls/seminaire rooms
• Library
• Internet connection
• Recreation facilities
• Halls of residence

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Teaching/Study/Research Facilities

• Lecturing Facilities
• LECTURE HALLS Capacity
• Amphitheatres Room 1 128 Persons
• Amphitheatres Room 2 210 Persons
• Amphitheatres Room 3 128 Persons
• Amphitheatres Room 4 182 Persons
• Lecture Halls Room 5 64 Persons
• Total 712 Persons
• In addition, there are seminar rooms for group
  studying and LL.M. courses.

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Teaching/Study/Research Facilities

• Research Facilities
• Library (Faculty of Law)
• Subscribed to all major journals
• Reorganizing law library collection
• Free ADSL internet access

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Recreation Facilities

• Students cafeteria
• Student House
• Park

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Recreation Facilities

• Social-cultural-academic/scientific activities
• Each student has a personal advisor from the
  faculty
• Lecture Halls and meeting rooms available for
  student organized events
• Law Club organizes meetings, social gatherings,
  theatre, folkloristic dance, etc.)

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2. Administration

• General Information
• Students Involvement
• Human Resources
• Teaching Staff/Faculty
• Students

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Student Involvement

• Student involvement
• Each class elect one student as their class
  representative.
• All student representatives elect a student
  faculty representative
• Student faculty representative is invited to join
  Faculty Executive Board Meetings in matters
  regarding students affairs
• Twice yearly all student representatives have a
  feed-back meeting with the Dean

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Faculty Members

• Number of Academic Staff 376 Visiting Scholars
• The Faculty has three departments
• - Department of Private Law
• - Department of Public Law
• - Department of Economy and Public Fiance

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• Human Resources
• Students

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Educationa. Undergraduate Education

• Undergraduate Curriculum
• Teaching Methods
• Exam Methods and Evaluation
• Quality Assurance Feedback

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3. Education

• Duration 4 years
• -5 years starting from 2007 so as to improve the
  quality of law education.

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Academic Calendar for 2005/2006 academic Year
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Samples of The Lecture ContentsHHU 201 LAW OF
OBLIGATIONS (GENERAL PROVISIONS)
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• Objective
• The main objective of this course is to introduce
  students to the basic principles and the theories
  of law obligations (General Provisions).
• Learning Outcomes At the end of the lessons,
  students should understand the following
• The General Principles of Law of Obligations
• The qualifications of the obligations
• Freedom of contract
• Contents
• The concept of obligation, liablility, debt,
  claim, and other fundamental issues, Principles
  of the obligations, contracts, offer, acceptance
  and other features needed to establish a
  contract, validity, contract interpretation,
  representation, breach of contract and remedies,
  the default of the debtor and creditor, the
  concepty of tort, the types of unjust enrichment.

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• Teaching and Learning Material
• Syllabus and selected papers
• Course book
• References
• Basic coursebook M. Kemal Oguzman, M. Turgut Öz,
  Borçlar Genel Hükümler, Gözden Geçirilmis
  Geniletilmis 4. Basi, Istanbul, Filiz Kitapevi,
  2005.
• Teaching Methods
• Lectures
• A combination of ex cathedra teaching and
  interactive method.
• Evaluation Methods
• One visa(40 ), one final examination (60)
  (written)

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Undergraduate Curriculum and Teaching

• Teaching Method
• Conducted through lectures and seminars
• Each course has its own statement of aims and
  learning outcomes
• Utilizing problem based learning system

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Undergraduate Curriculum and Teaching

• Exam methods and Evaluation
• Midterm Exam
• Final Exam
• The exam will cover all course content
• Consist of case studies, short answer and long
  answer
• Provide clear and concise directions and time
  limit in the exam papers.
• Issue a model answer
• Reading the students exam papers Conceal
  students name, grade one question at a time, in
  one sitting if possible, utilize a model answer
  sheet (key points)

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Quality Assurance

• Apply quality assurance program so as to improve
  teaching and to evaluate courses strengths and
  weakness
• Student Feedback
• Course evaluation questionnaire
• Providing Feedback to Students
• - Issue model answers with marked work
• - Provide feedback to groups of students

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Student feed-back

• Student feed-back form
• In use since 2002
• Validated, anonymous, semi structured
  questionnaire featuring items (yes/no,
  qualitative/open-ended)
• Evaluates quality of Law School education at KOU
  Law School from the students point of view
• Administered with every Department
• Results are used to re-evaluate curriculum
  content and teaching yearly

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KOCAELI UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF LAW STUDENT FEED
BACK FORM
FACULTY MEMBERS

• -
• You can use the back of this page to
  continue.
• Your concrete and careful evaluation is of great
  importance for the future of our Faculty of Law
  education.
• Please inidicate your personal views in a
  realistic manner
• You are not obliged to indicate your gender
• Please use an ink pencil and do not overwrite
• THANK YOU!

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b. Graduate Program

• Master of Laws (LL.M) program is carried out by
  the Institute of Social Science of the Kocaeli
  University
• Course and thesis based program
• Public Law and Private Law

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4. International Academic Relations

• Working to promote international relations with
  law schools from various parts of the world
• Try to conclude Bilateral agreements with
  universities in Europe
• Visiting Scholar

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