Department of Social & Policy Sciences, Unit Catalogue 2010/11 |
SP50171: International family policy |
 Credits:
| 6 |
| Level:
| Masters |
| Period: | This unit is available in... |
| Semester 2 |
| Assessment:
| CW100 |
| Supplementary Assessment: | Supplementary assessment information not currently available (this will be added shortly) |
| Requisites:
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| Description:
| Aims: * To review and evaluate critically the literature on specific areas of family policy using a variety of social science perspectives; * To demonstrate a critical understanding of the diverse trajectories of family policy development in different world regions; * To enable students to identify, research and develop their own arguments in specialist areas of international family policy making; * To develop practical skills of family policy analysis and evaluation. Learning Outcomes: Knowledge and understanding of family policy challenges and responses under diverse national family, economic and political conditions, in different world regions. Skills: * Ability to analyse and evaluate international family policymaking experiences and outcomes. * Ability to analyse critically the relationship between local, national and global processes of family policymaking. * Ability to identify, research and develop arguments in specialist areas of international family policy making. * Ability to undertake family policy analysis and evaluation applied to a specific area of family policy taken from a comparative or international context. * Ability to carry out independent and original analysis of concrete family policymaking problems. * Ability to analyse and synthesise multidisciplinary perspectives on the same problem. Content: * Introducing family policy - definitions, origins, aims, values and development. * Demographic change - ageing populations & declining fertility, changing patterns of family formation & dissolution. * Comparing family policies across countries. * Lone parenthood - a 'new' social risk. |