Overview

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Offerings

MURDOCH-S1-EXT-2019-ONGOING
MURDOCH-S1-INT-2019-ONGOING

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Learning outcomes

1.

Understand the ways in which social policy ideas have changed over time.

2.

Understand recent trends in Australian and international social policy.

3.

Be familiar with the ways in which concepts and action of 'community' shape social policy.

4.

Be equipped to take well-informed action about policy challenges.

5.

Understand the role language plays in social policy discourse.

6.

Have developed skills in social policy analysis.

Assessments

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Additional information

Unit content:

• Social Policy: what do they say it is?
• Change, controversy and confusion – policy in different times and places
• Who, what and when? Policy actors and policy cycles
• Problem making' and causality
• 'Don't think of an elephant': Language, rhetoric and activism in social policy
• Who is my neighbour? Community action and values in social policy
• Who says? Evidence, policy and what we need for positive change