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School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Social Policy

  • Unit Code

    CSV3101

  • Year

    2019

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Hossein ADIBI

Description

This unit in comparative social policy provides students with theory, knowledge, and skills to understand major tendencies in policy development as they are shaping, and being shaped by, the increasingly interdependent world of the twenty-first century. It explores key areas of social policy and economic policy, including welfare, education, health, housing, income maintenance, taxation, and employment. Australian policy and its outcomes are compared with those of other relevant countries, in order to highlight forces which shape policy and the effects which such policies have on peoples everyday lives.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from CSV1102

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded CSV4000, HSA3203

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse policy trends and concepts which are shaping policy thinking at the national and international levels and discuss their impact on Australian society.
  2. Describe a number of theoretical frameworks.
  3. Discuss the role of key international organisations (OECD, ILO, WTO, World Bank) in shaping global and domestic social policies.
  4. Evaluate the arrangements of government institutions and political processes affecting policy choices.
  5. Identify methods used in approaching policy from a comparative perspective, and discuss the methodological difficulties.
  6. Identify some of the main theoretical influences which have shaped economic and social thinking in different countries.
  7. Identify the historical, cultural, ideological, economic, technical and political forces which shape policy outcomes.
  8. Outline some of the major trends in Australian social and economic policy.

Unit Content

  1. Contemporary issues in policy analysis and development.
  2. Detailed analysis in chosen policy areas.
  3. Frameworks for understanding social and economic policy.
  4. Influencing the policy process academic research, interest groups, lobby groups and social movements.
  5. Political culture, ideology and the shaping of policy.
  6. Restructuring and policy implementation.
  7. The role of international organisations in the policy process.
  8. The structures and processes through which government decisions are made.
  9. Theories of the state and of power.
  10. Theory and method in comparative policy analysis.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 2 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 1 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 113 x 1 hour tutorialNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, weekly tutorials and on-line participation.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentAnalysis of an Australian policy35%
Tutorial PresentationAnalysis of an Australian policy15%
ExaminationEnd of semester examination50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentAnalysis of an Australian policy35%
Tutorial PresentationAnalysis of an Australian policy15%
ExaminationEnd of semester examination50%

Core Reading(s)

  • Carson, E., & Kerr, L. (2017). Australian Social Policy and the Human Services (2nd ed.). Port Melbourne, Vic: Cambridge University Press. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/965368235

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Social Policy

  • Unit Code

    CSV3101

  • Year

    2019

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Hossein ADIBI

Description

This unit in comparative social policy provides students with theory, knowledge, and skills to understand major tendencies in policy development as they are shaping, and being shaped by, the increasingly interdependent world of the twenty-first century. It explores key areas of social policy and economic policy, including welfare, education, health, housing, income maintenance, taxation, and employment. Australian policy and its outcomes are compared with those of other relevant countries, in order to highlight forces which shape policy and the effects which such policies have on peoples everyday lives.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from CSV1102

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded CSV4000, HSA3203

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse policy trends and concepts which are shaping policy thinking at the national and international levels and discuss their impact on Australian society.
  2. Describe a number of theoretical frameworks.
  3. Discuss the role of key international organisations (OECD, ILO, WTO, World Bank) in shaping global and domestic social policies.
  4. Evaluate the arrangements of government institutions and political processes affecting policy choices.
  5. Identify methods used in approaching policy from a comparative perspective, and discuss the methodological difficulties.
  6. Identify some of the main theoretical influences which have shaped economic and social thinking in different countries.
  7. Identify the historical, cultural, ideological, economic, technical and political forces which shape policy outcomes.
  8. Outline some of the major trends in Australian social and economic policy.

Unit Content

  1. Contemporary issues in policy analysis and development.
  2. Detailed analysis in chosen policy areas.
  3. Frameworks for understanding social and economic policy.
  4. Influencing the policy process academic research, interest groups, lobby groups and social movements.
  5. Political culture, ideology and the shaping of policy.
  6. Restructuring and policy implementation.
  7. The role of international organisations in the policy process.
  8. The structures and processes through which government decisions are made.
  9. Theories of the state and of power.
  10. Theory and method in comparative policy analysis.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 2 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 1 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 113 x 1 hour tutorialNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, weekly tutorials and on-line participation.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentAnalysis of an Australian policy35%
Tutorial PresentationAnalysis of an Australian policy15%
ExaminationEnd of semester examination50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentAnalysis of an Australian policy35%
Tutorial PresentationAnalysis of an Australian policy15%
ExaminationEnd of semester examination50%

Core Reading(s)

  • Carson, E., & Kerr, L. (2017). Australian Social Policy and the Human Services (2nd ed.). Port Melbourne, Vic: Cambridge University Press. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/965368235

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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