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) | ||
Urban Policy and Planning (H) | ||
Criminal Justice Policy | ||
Financing Health Care (H) | ||
Social Security Policies (H) | ||
Social Exclusion, Inequalities and the 'Underclass' Debate (H) (n/a 13/14) | ||
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) | ||
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) | ||
Behaviour, Happiness and Public Policy | ||
Illegal Drugs and Their Control: Theory, Policy and Practice (H) | ||
Politics of Social Policy: Welfare and Work in Comparative Perspective (H) | ||
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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. | ||
