UNSW Handbook Course - Social Policy

Social Policy - SLSP5016


	Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
	School: School of Social Sciences and International Studies
	Course Outline: http://slsp.arts.unsw.edu.au/
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Postgraduate
	Units of Credit: 8
	EFTSL: 0.167 (more info)
	Contact Hours per Week: 2
	Excluded: SLSP5011
	Fee Band: 1 (more info)
	Further Information: See Class Timetable

Description

The course is concerned with the foundation and practice of social policy in Australia and internationally. Social policy includes any area of public intervention which involves redistribution of economic and social resources and may include an examination of public policy areas including health, housing, income support, taxation and economic policy. The theoretical foundations of the discipline of social policy are explored as well as important contemporary concerns. Seeks to draw out some of the implications of policy practice on certain groups of individuals in society.

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