MSc Social Policy (Social Policy and Planning)
(Formerly MSc Social Policy and Planning)
Full-year programme. Students must take: two half unit compulsory courses, attend the non-assessed course SA4C1, optional courses to the value of two full units and a dissertation.
Paper |
Course number and title | |
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Compulsory courses | |
1 |
Social Policy: Goals and Issues (H) | |
Social Policy: Organisation and Innovation (H) | ||
2 & 3 |
Optional courses | |
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Gender and Social Policy: Theory and Practice (H) | |
Gender and European Welfare States (H) | ||
Gender, Population, and Policy (H) | ||
The Politics of Housing (H) (n/a 15/16) | ||
Urban Policy and Planning (H) | ||
Financing Health Care (H) | ||
Social Security Policies (H) | ||
Understanding Social (Dis)advantage (H) | ||
Social Policy Research | ||
Ethnicity, Race and Social Policy (H) | ||
Education Policy, Reform and Financing (H) | ||
International Housing and Human Settlements (H) | ||
Globalization and Social Policy (H) | ||
Measuring Health System Performance (H) | ||
Social Rights and Human Welfare (H) | ||
The Economics of European Policy (H) (n/a 15/16) | ||
Behavioural Public Policy (H) | ||
Housing, Neighbourhoods and Communities (H) | ||
The Third Sector (H) | ||
Urbanisation and Social Policy in the Global South (H) | ||
The Governance of Welfare: The Nation State and the European Union (H) | ||
Contemporary Issues in European Social Policy (H) (n/a 15/16) | ||
Behaviour, Happiness and Public Policy | ||
Illegal Drugs and Their Control: Theory, Policy and Practice (H) (n/a 15/16) | ||
Politics of Social Policy: Welfare and Work in Comparative Perspective (H) (n/a 15/16) | ||
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Or a full or half unit course from another MSc programme* | |
4 |
Dissertation: Social Policy and Planning (10,000 words) to be handed in by 1 September | |
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Long Essay and the Research Process (not assessed) | |
Notes | ||
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* May only be taken with the permission of your tutor, the MSc Programme Director and the Course Tutor. | ||
It is not always possible to offer students a place on each of their preferred courses. This is particularly the case where courses are offered outside the Department of Social Policy (ie not prefixed with 'SA'). For further information please see lse.ac.uk/socialPolicyCourses. | ||
