Undergraduate - UnitATS3851 - Social policy

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2015 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Arts
Offered	Gippsland First semester 2015 (Off-campus)
Coordinator(s)	Dr Olga Bursian

Synopsis

This unit interrogates the processes and politics of social policy-making within the Welfare State. It reviews procedures and instruments used to formulate, fund, implement, evaluate, and revise social policy, and critically examines the impact of major policy decisions on the welfare of citizens.

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of the unit, students should be able to:

understand the relationship between social, economic and public policy;
understand the processes and politics of social policy making;
understand alternative theoretical frameworks for analyzing social policy;
assess the costs and benefits of a policy decision;
understand the methods used to challenge and influence policy agenda, choices and directions.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 60%
Exam: 40%

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. A unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Olga Bursian

Prerequisites

ATS1361 or permission

Prohibitions

GSC2310, SCW2310, SCW3310