Social Policy Special Topics B (PPMN90047)

Intended learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this subject should be able to:

• understand contemporary challenges in families and family change related to social consequences of changing social developments;
• appreciate the connections between various academic disciplines and how this informs theory and practice in social policy;
• explore how social, economic and family patterns vary from society to society; and
• understand how changing family developments shape or reshape social policy around critical areas.

Students who successfully complete this subject should:

• understand contemporary challenges in social policy related to social consequences of changing economic developments;
• appreciate the connections between various academic disciplines and how this informs theory and practice in social policy;
• explore how social, economic and family patterns vary from society to society and have changed over time; and
• understand how changing economic developments shape or reshape social policy around critical areas.

Generic skills

On completion of this subject students should have:

• the ability to demonstrate competence in critical, creative and theoretical thinking through essay writing, seminar discussion and presentations, conceptualising theoretical problems, forming judgments and arguments from conflicting evidence, and by critical analysis;
• the ability to demonstrate proficiency in the application of policy analysis skills to empirical problems; and
• the ability to demonstrate an understanding of the academic protocols of research and presentation.