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Department of Social & Policy Sciences, Unit Catalogue 2011/12


SP50171: International family policy

Click here for further information Credits: 6
Click here for further information Level: Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7)
Click here for further information Period: Semester 1
Click here for further information Assessment: CW100
Click here for further information Supplementary Assessment: Supplementary assessment information not currently available (this will be added shortly)
Click here for further information Requisites:
Click here for further information 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.
Click here for further informationProgramme availability:

SP50171 is Optional on the following programmes:

Department of Social & Policy Sciences
  • THXX-AFM14 : MRes Social Policy (Full-time)
  • THXX-AFM24 : MRes Social Policy (Full-time)
  • THSP-AFM13 : MSc International Public Policy Analysis (Full-time)
  • THSP-APM13 : MSc International Public Policy Analysis (Part-time)
  • THSP-AFC13: PG Cert International Public Policy Analysis (Full-time)
  • THSP-AFL13 : PG Dip International Public Policy Analysis (Full-time)
  • THSP-APL13 : PG Dip International Public Policy Analysis (Part-time)

NB. Programmes and units are subject to change at any time, in accordance with normal University procedures.