MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS

Arts Undergraduate Handbook 1996

Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996

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Social policy: untangling the threads

Offered subject to approval

Kay Gravell

Synopsis This subject provides an overview of social policy in Australia. It begins with an exploration of the normative aspects of social policy focusing on the concepts of social justice, freedom, equality and participation. The major institutional structures involved in social policy development in Australia are then examined with particular reference to the role of the state, the public service and political parties. Models of policy process and policy analysis are studied and th en applied to particular policy areas.

Assessment Assignment one (2000 words): 40% + Assignment two (500 words): 5% + Assignment three (3500 words): 55%

Prescribed texts

• Davis G, Wanna J and Weller P Public policy in Australia 2nd edn, Allen and Unwin, 1993
• Graycar A and Jamrozik A How Australians live: Social policy in theory and practice 2nd edn, Macmillan, 1993
• Wearing M and Bereen R (eds) Welfare and social policy in Australia Harcourt Brace, 1994