2464.19 - Social Analysis and Planning and Welfare in Small States and Islands

2464.19

Social Analysis and Planning and Welfare in Small States and Islands

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Bachelor in History, Social Analysis and Planning, Politics and Administration or equivalent qualifications.

The purpose of the course is to provide the students with advanced conceptual and theoretical competences within the study of Social Analysis and Planning and welfare in small states and islands.

Based in the field of welfare in small states and islands the course addresses:  Key concepts and theories in the study of small states and islands.  Selected concepts and theories in the study of welfare and measuring welfare.  Selected concepts and theories on welfare planning and strategic planning processes.  Selected empirical fields of social change and sustainability. Selected empirical fields of minority groups and equal rights.

The course is based on a combination of lectures, student presentation, seminars and group work.

The student should be able to:  Formulate and communicate an advanced interdisciplinary understanding of social studies and planning.  Analyse and discuss the key roles of social and planning studies in an advanced welfare society.  Identify and define concrete problems and methods in social studies and planning, which are relevant to the advanced understanding of welfare, modern institutions, organisations and social relations.  Make reflexive choices between different theories and theoretical approaches and their practical purpose in understanding the role of social relations, institutions and organisations in the development of welfare.  Analyse and discuss social and institutional change and the demands that such changes put the planning of welfare. Discuss the above-mentioned problematics in relation to small states and islands.

In-class presentation and submission of paper (max 10 pages, i.e. 4.500 words): 50% of final grade. Time bound written individual assignment (max 10 pages, i.e. 4.500 words): 50% of final grade.

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Bibliography will be available on Moodle

Erika Anne Hayfield