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SP50249: Advanced policy analysis

Follow this link for further information on academic years Academic Year: 2014/5
Further information on owning departmentsOwning Department/School: Department of Social & Policy Sciences
Further information on credits Credits: 6
Further information on unit levels Level: Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7)
Further information on teaching periods Period: Semester 1
Further information on unit assessment Assessment Summary: CW 100%
Further information on unit assessment Assessment Detail:
  • Coursework (CW 100%)
Further information on supplementary assessment Supplementary Assessment: Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
Further information on requisites Requisites:
Further information on descriptions Description: Aims:
This unit aims to provide students with
* an advanced understanding of different approaches towards analysing policy and governance;
* skills that will enable them to apply these approaches to different public policy issues at different levels of analysis; that is international, regional (eg EU), national and sub-national levels.

Skills:
By the end of this unit, students will have:
* explored the major methods and modes of policy analysis;
* applied one or more of these analytical methods in a policy topic.
By the end of this unit students should be able to:
* apply different techniques to provide analysis for the purposes of informing the process of policy making;
* apply different techniques to provide analysis for the purposes of the academic study of policy, oriented towards social theory;
* understand the role of analysis in the social policy process as well as the role of analysis in the process of societal and politico-economic governance.

Content:
Intellectual skills:
* to think creatively and analytically;
* to communicate an argument;
* to critically evaluate and assess research and evidence as well as a variety of other information;
* to synthesise information from a number of sources in order to gain a coherent undertstanding.
Transferable/Key Skills:
* essay research, preparation and writing skills;
* group work skills;
* policy research skills;
* presentation skills and verbal communication (ie oral presentations, seminar contributions).
Knowledge outcomes:
* Theoretical basis of different concepts towards understanding different modes of policy analysis;
* Knowledge of the current developments and contemporary research in different modes of policy analysis.
Further information on programme availabilityProgramme availability:

SP50249 is available for Auditing on the following programmes:

Department of Social & Policy Sciences

SP50249 is a Designated Essential Unit on the following programmes:

Department of Social & Policy Sciences

SP50249 is Optional on the following programmes:

Department of Social & Policy Sciences
Notes:
* This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2014/15 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2015/16 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2014/15.
* Programmes and units are subject to change at any time, in accordance with normal University procedures.
* Availability of units will be subject to constraints such as staff availability, minimum and maximum group sizes, and timetabling factors as well as a student's ability to meet any pre-requisite rules.