MSc Social Policy (Research)

Full-year programme. Students take two compulsory courses, one unit of options and a dissertation.

Paper

Course number and title

1

SA451 

Social Policy Research

2

MY4M1  

Foundations of Social Research 1 or

MY4M2

Foundations of Social Research 2

3

Courses to the value of one full unit from the following:

 

GI414

Gender and Social Policy: Theory and Practice (H)

GI415

Gender and European Welfare States (H)

MY426

Doing Ethnography (H)

SA403

Criminal Justice Policy

SA408

Health Economics (H)

SA409

Social Security Policies (H)

SA427

Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy (H)

SA429

Social Exclusion, Inequality and the 'Underclass' Debate (H) (n/a 13/14)

SA447

Foundations of Health Policy (H)

SA485

Planning for Population and Development (H) 

SA488

Social Policy: Goals and Issues (H)

SA493

Demographic Change and Development (H)

SA4B8

Ethnicity, Race and Social Policy (H)

SA4B9

Education Policy, Reform and Financing (H)

SA4C2

Basic Education and Social Development (H)

SA4C6

International Housing and Human Settlements (H) 

SA4C9

Social Policy - Organization and Innovation (H)

SA4D5

Social Rights and Human Welfare (H)

SA4E6

Rural Development and Social Policy (H) (n/a 13/14)

SA4F7

The Economics of European Policy (H)

SA4F8

Behavioural Public Policy (H)

SA4F9

Housing, Neighbourhoods and Communities (H)

SA4G8

The Third Sector (H)

SA4H7

Urbanisation and Social Policy in the Global South (H)

SA4H9

Non-Governmental Organisations, Social Policy and Development (H)

SA4J8

Social Policy and Development: Core Concepts (H)

SA4J9

States, Social Policy and Development (H)

SA4K2

Sexuality, Everyday Lives and Social Policy in Developing Countries (H)

SA4L1

The Governance of Welfare: The Nation State and the European Union (H)

SA4L2

Contemporary Issues in European Social Policy (H)

SA4L4

Behaviour, Happiness and Public Policy

SA4L6

Illegal Drugs and Their Control: Theory, Policy and Practice (H)

SA4M1

Politics of Social Policy: Welfare and Work in Comparative Perspective (H)

 

SA4X6

Welfare Analysis and Measurement

4

SA471

Dissertation: Social Policy and Planning

Notes

A course from another programme, with the permission of your tutor, the MSc Programme Director and the Course Tutor.