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• Demonstrate an understanding of the complexities associated with the study of social policy as a core subject area in social sciences
• Discuss and critically analyse key social policy concepts and principles
• Demonstrate a familiarity with the historical perspective in the analysis of social policy
• Demonstrate knowledge of the main research methods used in the empirical analysis of social policy
• Compare and contrast competing ideological perspectives on welfare
• Demonstrate knowledge of the nature and problems of policy provision in some key social policy areas
• Use the ‘welfare regime’ concept to discuss how concepts of ‘welfare’ and welfare systems themselves constructed in different societies
• Describe and critically analyse the role of the EU in shaping national social policy reforms

• Week 1: Introduction to Social Policy
• Week 2: The historical perspective in the study of social policy
• Week 3: Health Policy
• Week 4: Research methods in social policy
• Week 5: Pensions
• Week 6: Anti-crime policy
• Week 7: Poverty and Social Exclusion
• Week 8: Social Economy
• Week 9: Gender and Social Policy
• Week 10: Theory of Social Justice
• Week 11: European Social Policy

Final grades of students are based on the evaluation of the submitted and presented essay (100%).

• Alcock, P. Erskine, A. and May, T. (1998), The Students Companion to Social Policy, Oxford: Blackwell.
• Baldock, J., Manning, N. and Vickerstaff (1999), Social Policy, Oxford: Blackwell.
• Hill, M. (2006), Social Policy in the Modern World, Oxford: Blackwell.
• Pierson, C. and Castles, F. (2006), The Welfare State Reader, Campridge: Polity.
• Esping-Andersen G. (1990), The Three Worlds f Welfare Capitalism, Oxford: Oxford University Press.