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100pt Program
Master of Social PolicyCourse Entry PointYear: 2024
100pt Program
Contact information
Coordinator
Dr Max Holleran
Email: max.holleran@unimelb.edu.au
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Currently enrolled students:
- Contact Stop 1
- General information: https://ask.unimelb.edu.au
Future students:
- Further information: http://graduate.arts.unimelb.edu.au/
- Contact: 'make an enquiry' on http://graduate.arts.unimelb.edu.au/degrees/7-master-of-social-policy
Overview
The Master of Social Policy offers a curriculum that reflects cutting-edge theory in a number of professional development fields. Graduates will be equipped with the skills necessary for advanced community sector management and policy making, including the skills to:
- Analyse key areas of contemporary social policy such as governance, inclusion\exclusion, social capital, globalisation
- Engage with the social dimensions of social policy such as race, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, age
- Understand social policy as a contested process and apply research skills to a range of organisational contexts
- Draw on a range of disciplines and take a comparative and global focus.
Last updated: 2 February 2024