Overview

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Offerings

OUA-OUA1-EXT-2018-ONGOING
OUA-OUA2-EXT-2018-ONGOING

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Enrolment in an OUA course.

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Learning outcomes

1.
Understand the ways in which social policy ideas have changed over time
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Understand recent trends in Australian social policy, and the issues influencing social policy formation.
3.
Be familiar with the ways in which concepts of 'community' shape social policy.
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Understand the role language plays in social policy discourse.
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Have developed skills in social policy analysis.
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Have improved research and problem-solving skills.
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Have improved oral and written communication skills.

Assessments

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Additional information

Unit content:? Social Policy: what do they say it is? ? Change and controversy over time ? Who, what and when? Policy actors and the policy cycle ? “Problem making” and causality ? “Don’t think of an elephant”: Language and rhetoric in social policy ? Metaphor and social policy ? Who is my neighbour? Community and values in social policy ? Sorting through the evidence ? Bringing ideas together: Making a start on social policy analysis