279703

Theorising Today’s Social Policy for the Future

Course
A critical examination of social policy and its current developments. Utilising conceptual tools and new theories of social policy including sustainability, decolonisation and crisis theory to analyse social policy.
Course code

Qualifications are made up of courses. Some universities call these papers. Each course is numbered using 6 digits.

279703
Level

The fourth number of the course code shows the level of the course. For example, in course 219206, the fourth number is a 2, so it is a 200-level course (usually studied in the second year of full-time study).

700-level
Credits

Each course is worth a number of credits. You combine courses (credits) to meet the total number of credits needed for your qualification.

30
Subject
Social Policy

Course planning information

General progression requirements

You may enrol in a postgraduate course (that is a 700-, 800- or 900-level course) if you meet the prerequisites for that course and have been admitted to a qualification which lists the course in its schedule.

Learning outcomes

What you will learn. Knowledge, skills and attitudes you’ll be able to show as a result of successfully finishing this course.

  • 1 Critically review and examine ideological positions and the implications of Te Tiriti relationships informing social policy and wellbeing in Aotearoa New Zealand.
  • 2 Critique the current process of social policy development in Aotearoa New Zealand.
  • 3 Critically analyse the key debates and emerging issues in social policy.
  • 4 Critically evaluate a selected policy area demonstrating knowledge and skills in policy analysis.

Learning outcomes can change before the start of the semester you are studying the course in.

Textbooks needed

Textbooks can change. We recommend you wait until at least seven weeks before the semester starts to buy your textbooks.

Highly recommended

SOCIAL POLICY IN AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND

Author
GRAHAM HASSSELL AND GIROL KARACAOGLU (EDITORS)
ISBN
978-0-9951378-3-7
Edition
FIRST
Publisher
MASSEY UNIVERSITY PRESS

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