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MSc in International Social and Public Policy

Programme Code: TMISPP

Department: Social Policy

For students starting this programme of study in 2019/20

Guidelines for interpreting programme regulations


Full-year programme. Students must take two compulsory courses, options to the value of 2.0 units and a dissertation as shown.

Please note that places are limited on some optional courses. Admission onto any particular course is not guaranteed and may be subject to timetabling constraints and/or students meeting specific prerequisite requirements.

Paper

Course number, title (unit value)

Paper 1

SP401 Understanding Policy Research (0.5) and SP400 International Social and Public Policy (0.5)

Papers 2 & 3

Courses to the value of 2.0 unit(s) from the following:

 

PP4X6 Welfare Analysis and Measurement (1.0)

 

SP410 Migration: Current Research, Critical Approaches (0.5)

 

SP411 Social Policy and Development (0.5)

 

SP412 Non-Governmental Organisations, Social Policy and Development (0.5) #

 

SP413 Understanding Social (Dis)advantage (0.5)

 

SP414 Ethnicity, Race and Social Policy (0.5)

 

SP415 Urbanisation and Social Policy in the Global South (0.5) #

 

SP417 Sexuality, Everyday Lives and Social Policy in Developing Countries (0.5) #

 

SP418 Global Social Policy and International Organizations (0.5)

 

SP419 Social Movements, Activism, and Social Policy (0.5)

 

SP420 Understanding Policy Research (Advanced) (0.5) #

 

SP430 Social Security Policies (0.5)

 

SP431 Population Analysis: Methods and Models (0.5) #

 

SP432 Education Policy, Reform and Financing (0.5)

 

SP433 Rural Livelihoods, Development and Social Transformation (0.5) #

 

SP434 Behavioural Public Policy (0.5)

 

SP435 Housing, Neighbourhoods and Communities (0.5) #

 

SP440 Wellbeing and Public Policy (0.5) #

 

SP441 Politics of Social Policy: Welfare and Work in Comparative Perspective (0.5)

 

SP471 Issues in Contemporary Policing (0.5) #

 

SP472 Illegal Drugs and Their Control: Theory, Policy and Practice (0.5) #

 

SP473 Policing, Security and Globalisation (0.5) #

 

SP475 Riots, Disorder and Urban Violence (0.5) #

 

SP476 Punishment and Penal Policy (0.5)

 

Relevant outside options subject to agreement by the Programme Director.

Paper 4

SP499 Dissertation - International Social & Public Policy (1.0)

# means there may be prerequisites for this course. Please view the course guide for more information.

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