MSc European Social Policy

Full-year programme. Students must take compulsory courses to the value of one and a half units, optional courses to the value of one and a half units, non-assessed course SA4C1 and a dissertation as shown.

Paper

Course number and title

1

SA405 

European Social Policy

2

SA488

Social Policy: Goals and Issues (H)

3

European Contextual options
Choose to the value of one full unit from the following courses:

 

EU420

European Union Law and Government (H) *

EU421

Policy-Making in the European Union (H) 

EU439

Political and Fiscal Integration and Disintegration in EU Member States (H)

 

IR431

European Union Policy-Making in a Global Context (H)

SA4F7

The Economics of European Social Policy (H)

4

Other options
Choose to the value of a half unit from the following courses:

 

GI414

Gender and Social Policy: Theory and Practice (H)

GI415

Gender and European Welfare States (H)

SA407

Financing Health Care (H)

SA409

Social Security Policies (H)

SA429

Social Exclusion, Inequality and the 'Underclass' Debate (H)

SA4B8

Ethnicity, Race and Social Policy (H)

SA4C9

Social Policy: Organisation and Innovation (H)

SA4F8

Behavioural Public Policy (H)

SA4F9

Housing, Neighbourhoods and Communities (H)

SA4G8

The Third Sector (H)

SA4M1

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

SA4X6

Welfare Analysis and Measurement

 

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

5

SA466

Dissertation (10,000 words) to be handed in by 1 September

SA4C1

Long Essay and the Research Process (not assessed)

Notes

* May only be taken with the permission of the Course Tutor and the MSc Programme Director.

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