Public Policy – (M.Sc.)

Contents

As well as considering generic policy concerns, the programme allows you the opportunity to choose from a range of substantive policy issues. These include poverty and social exclusion; penal policy; organisations and public management; cities, housing and public policy; health and public policy; migration, asylum and human rights in the European Union. While all the programme units consider policy in an international and comparative context, particular emphasis is placed on Europe and East Asia.

First term

You must complete three core units:

* Governance, Institutions and the Global Political Economy
* Informing and Evaluating Policy: Research Methods and Analysis
* Power Politics and the Policy Process

Second term

You must complete one core unit in

* Public Management and Organisations

and two elective* units from:

* Analysing Public Policy: Theory, Issues, Method
* Cities, Housing and Public Policy
* The Economics of Public Policy
* The European Policy Process
* Gender and Violence: International and Global Perspectives
* Gender Development and Public Policy: A Global Perspective
* Health and Health Care in a Global Context
* An International Analysis of Poverty and Social Exclusion
* Migration, Asylum and Human Rights in the European Union
* Organisations and Public Management
* The Policy and the Politics of Urban Sustainability

*Elective units require a minimum of six students in order to proceed

Third term

You must complete a dissertation of 15,000 words. The dissertation accounts for 60 credit points. You begin work in late April and must submit by September.