Armand Lauffer, University of Michigan Social Planning and Policy in the Community. This course aims to deepen your understanding of contemporary social issues and problems.
Social policies impinge on many aspects of our lives - including our education, health and security.
The course gives you an opportunity to examine different social policies and perspectives, and the impact these have on social conditions and problems such as inequality, poverty and child abuse. The University of Edinburgh, Adam Ferguson Building, George Square, Edinburgh. Quasi and experimental designs for evaluation of social programs, computer analysis of data sets. This is a seminar in public policy for students in Public Administration and Policy, and suitable for doctoral students enrolled in other programs which share an interest in public policy. This course will examine some of the ways in which social scientists and other thinkers have sought to understand recurring issues that have troubled educational policymakers over the years - that is, problems that have proven resilient in the face of repeated reform efforts.