UNIT CATALOGUE

HASS0019: Public policy, business & civil society: the challenge of globalisation Semester 1 Credits: 6 Contact: Level: Postgraduate Assessment: CW100 Requisites: Aims & Learning Objectives: To provide students with a critical understanding of the institutional and policy environment within which governments, business and other actors are shaping the global system; To enable students to analyse the policy choices and conflicts with which these actors are presenting each other and the issues of public and private responsibility which these raise Content: Policies and strategies of global actors; interactions, mutual implications and conflicts International institutional frameworks and modes of negotiation International standard-setting and regulation.

HASS0020: Intensive course in international policy analysis Semester 2 Credits: 6 Contact: Level: Postgraduate Assessment: RT100 Requisites: Aims & Learning Objectives: * To provide students with a critical understanding of the institutional and policy environment within which governments, business and other actors are shaping the global system, with specific reference to sustainable communities; * To enable students to analyse the policy choices and conflicts with which these actors are presenting each other and the issues of public and private responsibility which these raise in relation to sustainable communities. Content: Session 1 1. Different perspectives on Sustainable Communities (Malcolm McIntosh) 2. Understandings of sustainability (Andrew Grant) Session 2 1. Globalisation: the global & the local (Malcolm McIntosh) 2. Urban footprints 3. Community, inclusivity & stakeholding 4. Stakeholder mapping for social & environmental risk assessment Session 3 1. Case studies (Andrew Grant) 2. Integrating sustainability into planning (Malcolm McIntosh) 3. Project work: work in progress Project Reports (involving additional individual research) The project work will be in the area of globalisation and urban sustainability.

HASS0021: International policy analysis placement Semester 2 Credits: 12 Contact: Level: Postgraduate Assessment: RT100 Requisites: Aims & Learning Objectives: To provide students with a critical understanding of the institutional and policy environment within which governments, business and other actors are shaping the global system; To enable students to analyse the policy choices and conflicts with which these actors are presenting each other and the issues of public and public responsibility which these raise. Content: The student will undertake a project within the placement organisation.

HASS0022: Intensive course in IPA: international strategies for environmental protection Semester 2 Credits: 6 Contact: Level: Postgraduate Assessment: RT100 Requisites: Aims & Learning Objectives: * To provide students with a critical understanding of the institutional and policy environment within which governments, business and other actors are shaping the global system, with specific reference to environmental protection; * To enable students to analyse the policy choices and conflicts with which these actors are presenting each other and the issues of public and private responsibility which these raise in relation to environmental protection. Content: This course will be organised in two parts: A. London conference at Chatham House Wednesday 20th October The programme for this conference is in the box overleaf. Each student will be asked to take notes of the discussion and to prepare a report, focussing on one of the groups of stakeholders making a presentation (government, business, lobbies). Guidance notes will be supplied in advance of the conference. These reports will be discussed at a special de-briefing meeting. B. Follow-up Analysis January 10th-17th 2000 The follow-up will comprise a joint preparatory session, individual tutorials (both with Dr Adrian Winnett) and a final plenary report-back session to a group of staff. The primary objective will be to locate the Chatham House discussions within the context of more formal and elaborated intellectual discourses on environmental problems, in order to appraise and criticise the policy and management options presented at Chatham House. (Including such questions as: were the interests of all stakeholders properly accounted for? how prevalent are win-win situations and how many irreducible hard choices are there?) The output will be a set of papers reflecting on the Chatham House discussions within this framework.

HASS0024: MESPA placement Semester 2 Credits: 12 Contact: Level: Postgraduate Assessment: RT100 Requisites: Aims & learning objectives: * to provide students with a critical understanding of the institutional and policy environment within which European social policy is being developed; * to enable students to analyse and evaluate these policies in a comparative and European context. Content: The student will undertake a project within the placement organisation.

HASS0025: MESPA study abroad Semester 2 Credits: 0 Contact: Level: Postgraduate Assessment: Requisites:

HASS0026: MIPA study abroad Semester 2 Credits: 0 Contact: Level: Postgraduate Assessment: Requisites: