Information Package / Course Catalogue
Social Problems and Solutions
Course Code: EU254
Course Type: Non Departmental Elective
Couse Group: Short Cycle (Associate's Degree)
Education Language: Turkish
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 2
Prt.: 0
Credit: 2
Lab: 0
ECTS: 2
Objectives of the Course

Social distress in social life, violence, divorce, poverty, unemployment, guilt, disability, old age, education, child problems etc. To examine the issues and analyze the problems.

Course Content

Social problem, what is it? Pointing to undesirable situations. Solving social problems also requires the community to assume collective responsibility. It is a collection of basic problems in society, learning, analyzing and acquiring the necessary competence in order to produce solution proposals.

Name of Lecturer(s)
Ins. Kutluhan DEMİR
Learning Outcomes
1.A general framework for social problems.
2.Has knowledge about the social life and the individual effect of social problems
3.Know social issues related to each other
4.Analyzes the social problems of our society
5.Know individual problems triggered by social problems
Recommended or Required Reading
1.Lecturer Notes
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
Week 1 - Theoretical
Framing and identifying social problems
Week 2 - Theoretical
Industrial revolution and the problems of the changing world
Week 3 - Theoretical
Social problems in our post-industrial society
Week 4 - Theoretical
Family Institutions and Problems, Domestic Violence, Divorce
Week 5 - Theoretical
Child, Problems, Street children, orphanages and aftermath
Week 6 - Theoretical
Migrations, causes and consequences
Week 7 - Theoretical
Problems with urbanization, crooked urbanization, urban transformation
Week 8 - Theoretical
Poverty and poverty limit and poverty (midterm)
Week 9 - Theoretical
Unemployment, depression, social exclusion
Week 10 - Theoretical
Criminality, poverty and child crime, violence against women, criminal profiles, crime in cities
Week 11 - Theoretical
Elderly, Elderly rights and social work
Week 12 - Theoretical
Handicaps and disability problems, Social perception, New work done and competences
Week 13 - Theoretical
Education problems, eastern Turkey
Week 14 - Theoretical
The solutions of social problems are advertising and promotion effect
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Type of AssessmentCountPercent
Midterm Examination1%40
Final Examination1%60
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesCountPreparationTimeTotal Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory201428
Midterm Examination101010
Final Examination101515
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)53
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
PÇ-1
PÇ-2
PÇ-3
PÇ-4
PÇ-5
PÇ-6
PÇ-7
PÇ-8
PÇ-9
PÇ-10
PÇ-11
PÇ-12
PÇ-13
OÇ-1
3
3
3
OÇ-2
3
3
3
OÇ-3
3
3
3
OÇ-4
3
3
3
OÇ-5
3
3
3
3
Adnan Menderes University - Information Package / Course Catalogue
2026