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

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SA405 European Social Policy

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SA488 Social Policy: Goals and Issues (H)

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European Contextual options
Choose to the value of one full unit from the following courses:
EU419 Socio-Economic Cohesion Policies in the EU (H)
EU420 EU European Union Law and Government (H) *
EU421 Policy-Making in the European Union (H) 
EU456 The Economics of European Social Policy (H)
IR431 European Union Policy-Making in a Global Context (H) 

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Other options
Choose to the value of a half unit from the following courses:
SA407 Financing Health Care (H)
SA409 Social Security Policies (H)
SA429 Social Exclusion, Inequality and the 'Underclass' Debate (H)
SA479 The Development of Housing and Urban Renewal (H)
SA4A7 Gender and Social Policy: Theory and Practice (H)
SA4A9 Gender and European Welfare States (H)
SA4B8 Ethnicity, 'Race' and Social Policy (H) (n/a 08/09) 
SA4C9 Social Policy - Organization and Innovation (H)
SA4D8 Welfare State Change: Ideas, Institutions and Actors (H) (n/a 08/09)

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

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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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