在本课程中，您将分析福利国家的转型和更多样化的福利体系的创建。这将使您能够将这些变化与英国及其他地区的社会，技术和经济变化联系起来。第一年，您将学习社会政策，社会学和研究方法。在社会政策部门，您将对特定政策领域进行高级分析。第二年，您将能够学习社会学，心理学和政治学的相关学科。在您的最后一年中，您将进行论文。<br> <br> <br>社会政策学（荣誉）理学士学位课程四年制，全日制<br>三明治年
Explore the mechanisms of policymaking to understand the key dilemmas and challenges around social rights, equality and the distribution of resources. <br>On this course, you'll learn about the social and political underpinnings of key policies affecting our lives. Understand the implications social policy has for questions of identity, political organisation, social justice and human rights. You'll learn about the origins and transformations of the institution of the state and how it interacts with the economy and third sector in the UK and beyond. You'll relate these changes to societal, technological and economic developments in Britain and around the world. Your first year will introduce you to social policy, sociology, and research methods, where you'll explore how social issues become constructed as policy problems. You'll learn about the major social, political and economic factors shaping equality and welfare in 21st century Britain. Through tutorials focused on developing key academic skills in these areas, you'll also learn how to evaluate data and information to develop your own arguments tailored to different audiences.<br><br>In your second year you'll focus on key policy areas such as the family, poverty, social inequality and analysis of the policy process. You'll be able to choose from a range of social science options and explore international perspectives on social policy including European perspectives and examples from further afield. This will help you locate social policy debates critically within global policy challenges. In your final year you'll carry out a year-long, supervised dissertation in social policy, explore policy evaluation and study social protection and welfare reform, alongside options that allow you to undertake advanced analysis of specific policy areas.